Why do sloths move so slowly, but they are not extinct in this world? How does it survive?

Sloth, it is estimated that the sloth in Zootopia must be the first thing that many friends think of. Literally, people will see the sloth's cold face after watching this movie. It can be said that the sloth's slow motion to fate is one of the biggest jokes in the whole movie. In fact, sloths are slower than those in movies. If the tortoise is the second slowest animal in the animal kingdom, the sloth is the first. But in this carnivorous world, why are sloths so slow but not extinct? Sloths usually live in the jungle, but there is a reason why sloths are safe and sound.

Sloths move slowly because of their diet. They mainly eat leaves, branches and flowers, which are easy to reach from the hanging place. Their diet is low in energy and lacks the nutrients needed for a balanced diet, such as fat and protein. Sloths hide a secret: their slow metabolic rate means that they can only live on very little food, which is especially useful in drought. It takes them several days to digest a meal, which means they have to stay on the perch and defecate once a week.

Sloths rarely leave trees, which means they will not be noticed by predators such as jaguars and eagles, who will take young or weak sloths from the forest. Because sloths rarely move, algae grow on their fur, helping them disguise themselves as plants. This is a technique to avoid the sharp-eyed raptors. Besides algae, the fur of sloths is home to many creatures, from moths to cockroaches to fungi. They are very sleepy and sleep 15 hours or more every day. Most sloths sleep on comfortable branches, move most of the time, eat at night and take a nap during the day to resist the heat.

Sloths themselves have a good protective color, which can protect them from being found when they meet natural enemies. In addition, sloths are very good at using green algae to grow on their bodies. As long as sloths hide in trees, they are hard to be found by natural enemies. In addition, sloths can easily repel ordinary predators because of their hard fur. Although the claws of the sloth are not too aggressive, the sloth can adapt well to the trunk, which makes it difficult for ordinary carnivores to eat the sloth raw. Sloths are cute. Their meat is rotten and not delicious. Even worse than crocodile meat, worse than monkey meat. Carnivores don't eat sloths for dinner unless they are starving. It is these special characteristics that enable sloths to thrive in dangerous rainforests.