The Sloths Slow. Sloths have leafy low-calorie diets and very slow metabolisms to match. This is very lucky because some sloths often move less than 40 meters a day.
Due to a plethora of energy saving adaptations sloths physically dont have the ability to move very fast. With so much effort exerted to extract a minimum of nutrients the sloths metabolism is amazingly slow- the slowest in the entire animal. There are a few facts you should know about the sloths and they include the following.
Normally three-toed sloths are silent and docile but if disturbed they can strike out furiously with the sharp foreclaws.
And this is convenient because they live in their food source trees where their claws allow them to hang smoothly on the branches often upside down. To compensate sloths have a host of adaptations in addition to their slow pace. They cant run away from predators like a monkey would and instead they have to rely on camouflage. Sloths are arboreal mammals meaning that they spend most of their time on trees.