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This uplifting post from discover.animal shows some good Samaritans helping a lucky sloth make its way across traffic and ...

Therefore, sloths eat very little food per day since digestion takes a very long time to complete, sometimes even days or weeks. All modern day sloths are tree-dwelling, suspensorial mammals, spending ...

Sloths even sleep in trees, and they sleep a lot—some 15 to 20 hours every day. Even when awake they often remain motionless. At night they eat leaves, shoots, and fruit from the trees and get ...

This slow behavior means they don't expend much energy. So, they don't need to eat a lot. A sloth can take up to 50 days to digest a meal. They have the slowest metabolism of any non-hibernating ...

If they get too cold, the special microbes that live in their stomachs can die, and the sloth can no longer digest the leaves that it eats. Sloths are anatomically designed to fall out of trees.