My Favorite Animal
Slowly, slowly, slowly it makes its way down the tree for its weekly potty break. They live most of their lives in trees. Sloths are the slowest mammals in the world, but this doesn’t make them uncool. They are one of the best animals at conserving energy. For an example on how slow sloths are, it takes them a whole month to travel only one single mile. The reason they have to sleep so much is because their big stomachs take 30 days to digest one leaf. They have 46 ribs to hold their stomachs because they are so large. That is more ribs than any mammal in the world. Their diet of leaves and bark doesn’t produce much nutrition. So they must conserve their energy by sleeping and going very slow. They spend 15 hours a day sleeping and eat at night. There are two kinds of sloths, the 2 toed sloth and the 3 toed sloth. They live in Central and South America. The two toed sloth has the lowest body temperature of any mammal on this earth. It can go to as low as 30 degrees Ce...