With their “extremely low metabolic rate” sloths move an average 41 yards, or less than half a football field, every day.

All modern day sloths are tree-dwelling, suspensorial mammals, spending most of their lives hanging motionless or slowly moving between tree branches using their long, curved claws. Everything from ...

Slow and steady is a way of life for the sloth. These gentle creatures move ever so slowly and carefully throughout the rainforests of Central and South America. Leisurely by nature, the sloth’s ...

In the rainforest, sloths move very slowly between trees high in the canopy, feeding on young leaves. They descend only to defecate, about once every five days. But with increasing habitat loss and ...

They’re actually more closely related to armadillos and anteaters. Sloths move incredibly slowly, traveling around 125 feet through the treetops in one day. When on the ground, they’re even ...