According to statistics, 50% of sloths die on the way to, why do slow-moving sloths have to risk their lives to come under the tree to? Isn't it safer to solve in a tree?
The sloths are the slowest moving animals in the world because they move slowly and make a deep impression on people's minds. The usual sloths are also very cute, and when you see them, they are almost always hanging on the tree or sleeping.
The same goes for sloths in the zoo, chances are you've walked around the zoo and come back to see the sloths still hanging in their original positions. Acting so slowly can also have a bad effect on them. They also can't run away quickly if they encounter danger.
So they basically lie on their stomachs on trees, because if they come under the trees, they are easily targeted by other predators. After being targeted, his escape speed is not fast, and he can easily become a "good meal" for carnivores. So sloths rarely come under trees.
The first is for the safety of their own lives, and the second is because they move too slowly and too lazily. But there is a point that is very contradictory to the personality of the sloth. They come under the tree every time they go to the toilet, and many people don't understand, why do such lazy sloths come under the tree every time they go to the toilet?
In fact, animals can also defecate directly on trees, such as birds, they can directly "parachute" when flying. Sloths risk their lives when they go down trees, and they themselves should know the dangers of getting off trees. Why go down to the tree to defecate?
The reason why sloths move so slowly is because of their body structure. Their body structure is different from other animals, and their metabolism and circulation capacity are much slower than those of similar animals. So their ability to react is very slow.
And sloths do not control their own temperature well, because ordinary animals can automatically adjust the temperature of their bodies according to the surrounding environment. But sloths cannot, sloths can only change the temperature of their bodies according to the temperature change of the environment. And the temperature difference of the body will be large.
Now the sloths hang like koalas on the trees, a tiny one. But the world's first sloths were not so "petite", their ancestors could reach 6 meters long. Just like a "megaanimal", the weight is calculated in tons.
Because they are so large, they can only walk on land, and carnivores do not easily provoke them. After all, the body size is too large, and he can't take advantage of it. Because walking on land is too large compared to other creatures, people call it "ground sloth".
Now looking at the whole world and even the earth, there will be no more earth sloths. They have completely disappeared from the world, perhaps according to the changes in the surrounding environment, and have evolved into today's sloths. But now there are only two types of sloths.
About 30 million years have passed since the earth sloth disappeared into this world. The current sloths are completely different from the ground sloths. It's not just the difference in body shape, but also the difference in living habits. Because sloths survive on trees for a long time and do not do other activities, the body does not consume a lot of energy.
It is also normal for sloths to eat less, and eating some food can meet the body's energy needs. And on the tree can eat other foods, bugs, birds, wild fruits, etc. are their food sources. Since they spend most of their time lying on their stomachs in trees, sloths do not walk on land.
It can only crawl slowly on land with its limbs and paws, and the speed of movement is particularly slow, and the crawling speed on the trees where he often lies on his stomach is not very fast. A sloth can crawl up to five meters a minute, which is too slow for ordinary squirrels and monkeys.
It stands to reason that the current sloths do not have attack power at all, and their movements are still so slow, these two points alone belong to extinct animals. Why do they survive to this day? This is because they usually like to stay in the trees and do not come to land.
Not only that, but they have long, hard fuzz on their bodies. Looking at the round body, in fact, the body is not so fleshy. Even carnivores don't bother to catch them. But sloths like to go down to the tree to go to the toilet, just like they have a cleanliness fetish.
At first, zoologists thought that sloths were afraid that predators would see the droppings under the tree and then perceive their location. That's why they go down to the tree to go to the toilet. But this statement is only people's speculation, not an accurate situation.
Later, people found out through research that the reason why sloths went down to the toilet was because of the algae on their bodies. Sloths have a lot of algae in their hair, and algae need sloths as a food source. Sloth moths are generally found in the droppings of sloths, so they need to go down to the tree to defecate. Then let the sloth moth reproduce successfully.
The living habits of each creature are related to their own body, and sloths risk their lives to defecate in trees, also because the body's algae need nutritional supplements from sloths. The color of the sloth's body hair also has a lot to do with algae, and if there is no algae, their bodies may not have a protective color.
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