Are sloths really that slow and lazy?

Question

Or do you think they are just waiting to kick off when you least expect it?

Answer 1

Nah,they have mad sloth all night parties,lots of sloth rock n roll and sloth sex,it leaves them very tired.They often invite the Budweiser frogs,and we all know about them.

Answer 2

I recently saw a sloth in a zoo in Florida. YES! That creature is that slow and lazy, confirmed by the zookeeper of his cage. As a matter of fact, we were in the area for well over an hour and he never moved, just slept in a hammock. But also I once read that it takes a sloth days to travel less than a mile.

Answer 3

Yes whats sucks is that I was watching the discovery channel on sloths and they even said they have no meaning in the animal kinddom all there good for is food for predator, there ugly slow things but weird.

Answer 4

The living sloths are omnivores. They may eat insects, small lizards and carrion, but their diet consists mostly of buds, tender shoots, and leaves, mainly of Cecropia trees. They have made extraordinary adaptations to an arboreal browsing lifestyle. Leaves, their main food source, provide very little energy or nutrition and do not digest easily: sloths have very large, specialized, slow-acting stomachs with multiple compartments in which symbiotic bacteria break down the tough leaves. As much as two-thirds of a well-fed sloth's body-weight consists of the contents of its stomach, and the digestive process can take as long as a month or more to complete. Sloths' claws serve as their only natural defense. A cornered sloth may swipe at its attackers in an effort to scare them away or wound them. Despite sloths' apparent defenselessness, predators do not pose special problems: in the trees sloths have good camouflage and, moving only slowly, do not attract attention. Only during their infrequent visits to ground level do they become vulnerable. Sloths move only when necessary and even then very slowly: they have about half as much muscle tissue as other animals of similar weight. They can move at a marginally higher speed if they are in immediate danger from a predator (4.5 m / 15 feet per minute), but they burn large amounts of energy doing so. Their specialized hands and feet have long, curved claws to allow them to hang upside-down from branches without effort. While they sometimes sit on top of branches, they usually eat, sleep, and even give birth hanging from limbs. They sometimes remain hanging from branches after death. On the ground their maximum speed is 1.5 m (5 feet) per minute. They mostly move at 15-30 cm (0.5-1 feet) per minute.

Answer 5

Slow? Yes. They most certainly are really that slow. Lazy? Heck, no. They work very hard to get from place to place and to find food. They have to overcome their slowness through other means, and that takes a lot of effort!

Answer 6

Not lazy so much as they have a very slow metabolism, so they expend as little energy as possible by moving very slowly and deliberately.

Answer 7

Yes

Answer 8

They are not lazy. They are just that slow. Some have grown mold on their fur because they move so slow.

Answer 9

They are just slow. I just saw them at the zoo Sunday.

Answer 10

well if they have mold growing on there backs i would say they are just slow and lazy