which is the slowest animal in the world?

Answer 1

The SLOTH
There are animals that never move. Corals, sponges, and barnacles are good examples, but there are many more. Clearly, these animals would have to qualify as the slowest on earth, clocking in at 0 miles per hour.

Of the animals that do move, a lot depends upon size. Small, microscopic, animals might seem fast when they dart across your field of view in the microscope, but they are covering a very small distance. If you were to clock the speed of these types of animals, you wouldn't get a speed that was much better than 0 miles per hour.

Speed generally increases as size increases, just like an adult human can run faster than a child. However, there is one animal of mid to large size that is particularly noted for its lack of speed. This is the sloth.

The sloth is an arboreal (tree living) animal that moves very slowly. Because of this, its name has taken on the meaning of a slow, lazy person. However the sloth is not moving slowly because it is lazy. It lives in an area where eagles are the major predator. Eagles, like most predators, have very keen eye-sight and are particularly able to detect movement. When the sloth moves through the trees very slowly, it is hard to detect its presence. Thus, the sloth's slow speed is really an advantage against its major predator.

Answer 2

The three-toed sloth is the slowest land animal. It usually moves at the speed of 10 ft per minute.

The Two-Toed Sloth, choloepus hoffmanni often referred to as Hoffman's Two-Toed Sloth is one of the world's most unique small mammals. Present day Sloth ancestors can be traced back to about 60 million years ago when there were both tree and ground Sloths. Some species of the now extinct giant Ground Sloth were as large as an elephant. All modern day living Sloths are Two-Toed Sloth or Three-Toed Sloths and classified as tree sloths. During the Ice Age, Giant Ground Sloths moved into North America from its origin in South America followed by their close relatives, the Armadillos which were probably the ultimate ancestor of the Sloth. Sloths are also related to anteaters in a group of mammals known as edentates. Sloths do have cheek teeth but are lacking incisors and canines and also make use of their hard lips to help tear at foraged food.

Answer 3

Impossible to answer unless you ask in a clearer way.

The slowest moving mammal is generally believed to be the giant sloth. Tortoises are usually pretty slow moving. But if you wanna get reeeeaaaalll slowwwwww...

Adult barnacles remain fixed in one place throughout their lives (although the larval stage is a pretty nifty swimmer), so they don't move at all. Same goes for most coral species (which are animals, not plants). But barnacles and corals have feeding parts which can move pretty rapidly...

Most micro-organisms such as the amoeba probably move quite rapidly in relation to their size but because they are so small they hardly register in terms of miles per hour.

So do you mean an overall speed in miles per hour - as in running, swimming or other means of getting about?
Do you mean in relation to body size?
Do you mean any part of the body (including feeding parts etc etc)?

Answer 4

Tortoise

Answer 5

Any sedentary animal, like corals, sponges, sea anemones. While sedentary, they don't change their location at all...

Answer 6

Any dead one would be pretty slow.... assuming it didn't die at the top of a very high tree.... then it might temporarily be the fastest...

Answer 7

Three toed sloth..

Answer 8

End users!

Answer 9

the snail

Answer 10

the snail