Sloths are 3 times stronger than the average human. Sloths can lift up their whole body weight with only one arm.
Sloths are faster in the water than on the land.
Sloths can fall 100 feet without an injury as they are anatomically designed to fall out of trees.
No one knows how old exactly sloths can get. It is really hard to follow a sloth in the wild, therefore no one was able to follow a sloth from it's birth till it's death. The oldest sloth in a zoo lived for 50 years, but scientists suspect that sloths in the wild get older.
It takes a sloth 30 days to digest a leaf, because they have a very slow metabolic rate.
There are two different types of sloths. The two-toed and three-toed sloths. The names are actually wrong, because both species have 3 claws on their hind limbs. One can only see the difference on their front limbs.
Ancient sloths, known as ‘Megatherium’, were as big as Asian elephants.
Sloths spend 90% of their life with hanging upside down. It doesn't affect their breathing, because their organs are attached to their rib cage and therefore can't weigh down on their lungs.
Sloths normally don't travel no more than 125 feet (38m) in a single day. On the ground they only crawl 1 foot (30cm) per minute.
Sloths in captivity sleep around 15-20 hours a day, sloths in the wild only 8-9 hours.
If you want to read more about sloths you can look at these pages:
I used some information of these pages for this blog post.
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