The Sloths Slow. Their slowness permits their low-energy diet of leaves and avoids detection by predatory hawks and cats that hunt by sight. Why are Sloths So Slow.
More leaves could only be eaten when digested leaves exit the stomach and enter the small intestine. With so much effort exerted to extract a minimum of nutrients the sloths metabolism is amazingly slow- the slowest in the entire animal. Sloths arent lazy their slowness is a survival skill.
Conventional wisdom has it that sloths are.
And the life they lead is very much in slow motion. They cant run away from predators like a monkey would and instead they have to rely on camouflage. On average sloths travel. Why are sloths so slow.