sloth, n.Trivia

Sloths can hold their breath underwater for up to 40 minutes.

Sloths can live upto 30 years and spend 15-18 hours a day sleeping.

Sloths are slow --- A three-toed sloth can reach a top speed of 0.15 miles per hour.

Sloths can take up to a month to completely digest a single leaf.

Sloths sometimes accidentally grab their arms instead of the branches of a tree, leading to fatal falls.

Sloths are able to live their life hanging because their hands work opposite from ours, closing to relax and only opening with exertion.

More than 50% of sloth deaths occur on their once a week trip to poop.

Sloths can lose up to one-third of their body weight from one defecation.

The sloth is the only mammal that doesn't fart.

Sloths hold their breaths longer than dolphins.

A sloth only ever leaves its tree to poop, and it's the only time they have to stand upright. They only poop once a week, and can lose up to one-third of their body weight by pooping.

Sloths are so slow that algae can grow on them

Giant sloths excavated hundreds of miles of tunnels in South America that still exist to this day

3-toed sloths and 2-toed sloths aren't closely related to each other, and each group evolved the tree-hanging lifestyle independently, an example of convergent evolution.

Sloths can swim three times faster than they can move on land