Three Toed Sloth

The three toed sloth is one of the slowest animals in the world. They live in the trees hanging from branches and spend most of their time sleeping. A sloth can sleep for 15 to 20 hours at night is when they usually eat. A sloth in the trees can only move 3 m/min and on the ground they are slower they can only move 2 m/min. To move on the ground a sloth has to drag itself with its front claws just to get around because they are not strong enough to lift themselves.

Although sloths cannot move very fast they are really good swimmer which is surprising because they have very little body strength. They need to be good swimmers because when the fall off the tree sometimes they will land in deep water and need to know how to swim. Some sloths when they die still stay attached to the branch they died on until they branch falls off. They stay on the branch when they die because sometimes their muscles are very tight from their grip.