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The way this sloth died surprised many people, they just wanted to eat the leaves quietly and sleep in, but they didn't expect to die by going to the toilet.
When it comes to sloths, everyone thinks they don't have much strength, and then they just go to sleep.
But this sloth was inexplicably strangled to death when he was sleeping, the sloth wanted to go to the toilet, but he died halfway without saying a word, what the hell is going on?
I'm going to tell you the story of this amazing sloth today!
Lazy and useless sloths.
Sloths are a very common mammal, and their temperament is also very curious.
Of all the mammals, the sloth is the smallest and lightest, with an average weight of about 2.5 kilograms.
Most of the time, sloths lie on their stomachs in the sun or sleep in the trees.
Life is so simple for sloths, and this lazy habit extends to their digestive system.
The sloth eats a lot of leaves every day to feed itself for energy, and then it can lie down and sleep.
Every once in a while, the sloths will come down to "go to the toilet", because some of the leaves that the sloths eat are indigestible, so they accumulate in their bodies.
But the sloths don't want to go down because they don't bother to look for a good place in the tree, so if they feel "oh, I'm going to poop", they will fall a layer from the tree and dig a hole.
When the sloths go to the toilet by themselves, they suddenly lose the ability to hide, and they are often attacked by fierce beasts, so when the sloths "go to the toilet" by themselves, they often fall to the ground.
Then it was assumed that the sloths would not live long, and there was even a sarcastic name called "water monkeys" because they always fell into the river and drowned themselves.
But in fact, the structure and living habits of the sloth itself are very adapted to arboreal life, so the sloth is attacked when it is "dead".
In fact, there are really few sloths that can live for a long time, and after 4,000 wild sloths were surveyed, the lifespan of these sloths is basically between 20 and 30 years old.
But there is also a well-known sloth that lives very long, and that is Adelma, who finally died on Christmas Eve at the age of 46, making it the longest-lived sloth known.
And the reason why Adelma has such a long lifespan is because it is kept in captivity, so it is relatively safe.
The cause of the sloth's death is all because of this fragile "mouth".
Sloths are animals that live on trees, so their movements are carried out on trees, and even squatting of sloths are carried out on trees, which shows how dependent sloths are on the habits of tree life.
As a result, sloths are very slow for most of their lives, and their speed is too slow, so their activity is very small, so they don't need to maintain a high level of physical fitness at all.
They usually just need to hide in the trees and take care of their bodies.
On the body of the sloth, the most curious thing is their head.
The head of the sloth is very small, and their head is not big, so the IQ of the sloth is also very low, and the ability of the sloth to move is also very low, so the sloth is really a very important way to survive is to hide.
Sloths have small bodies, but their mouths are very large, and they have a long ring of hair and whiskers above them.
These hairy organs are actually used by sloths to brush leaves.
They will put the leaves in their mouths and use their tongues to nourish the fibers inside, and then they can eat them.
But this process is also very slow, and it takes at least several days for the sloth to be full.
The most powerful organs in the sloth's body are undoubtedly the sloth's huge stomach and intestines, which can occupy almost the entire volume of the sloth.
In the intestines of the sloth, there is a series of microorganisms that grow there, and their role is to break down the fibers in the leaves and then absorb the nutrients into the sloth's body.
In the intestines of the sloth, these bacteria continue to decompose for a fee, decomposing a part of the absorbable substances and dedicating them to the sloth.
Why do sloths die so easily?
These must be broken down by these "good bacteria" in the intestines before they can be absorbed into the sloth's body.
Therefore, when the sloth is born, there are already a certain number of "good bacteria" in the intestines, and then these "good bacteria" will continue to enter the sloth's intestines with the leaves.
About 30 to 40 percent of the sloth's intestines are occupied by these necrotic cells and "good bacteria".
But as the leaves are slowly decomposed, the "good bacteria" will continue to absorb the nutrients in the leaves, and some of the nutrients will be absorbed by the "good bacteria", and the other part of the nutrients will be carried to the body of the sloth.
Therefore, only about 20% of the nutrients actually absorbed by sloths are absorbed.
So if the sloth wants to maintain normal physiology and energy, it must have countless leaves to maintain it.
Sloths are also very slow to eat, and it takes several days to eat a full stomach.
Whether you are chewing leaves slowly or moving slowly, you will waste a lot of time, so sloths have become very expensive in life.
Humans and felines, both are very expensive animals, but sloths are even more "expensive" than them.
In the forest, food is very expensive, so the sloth can't find any food in the forest, and even waste all their energy without nutrition.
So the sloth is basically when it is hungry, subconsciously takes a step back, and then it falls, but once the sloth is on the ground, it must reproduce, and everything else becomes extremely secondary.
Therefore, the sloth's dependence on tree life is even stronger, and it has developed a special habit, that is, their daily range of activity is very small, and there is only one tree in their range of activity.
The tree had to be familiar to them, and it had to have enough leaves to feed them.
Therefore, the sloth will break a piece of each leaf and then remember how many leaves are left in the tree, so the survival rate of this habit of the sloth is also very high.
epilogue
Some sloths will die "at the time of solving the physiological crisis", perhaps because they have been eaten, or they may have fallen to their deaths because of a fall from a height.