The slowest reptile in the world, the list of the slowest animals in the world

Sloths, when you hear this name, don't feel that it has anything to do with trees, in fact, sloths are a kind of mammals that look like monkeys. The biggest difference is that the sloth is not as agile as the monkey, the sloth is slow, and often hangs its claws upside down on the branches for several hours without moving, although it has legs, it cannot walk, relying on its forelimbs to drag its body forward. Sloths are found in South America and live in trees all year round.

Hook the branches with their claws and hang upside down, so they eat leaves and fruits as their main food.

Sloths are very lazy, crawling speed is also very slow, at the fastest speed, they can only move almost 6 centimeters per second, and at the same time sloths eat less, sometimes even a month without eating is normal, sloths stomach weighs up to a third of their body weight, sloths have a bowel movement every 7 to 10 days. In Costa Rica, a sloth is leisurely crossing the road, we know that the sloth crawls very slowly, although it is crawling hard, as a result, the whole street is patiently waiting for the tree to cross the road, a man saw the sloth crawling the side of the road, worried that the car will hurt it, so he grabbed the sloth and carefully placed it on the side of the road.

Throughout the process, the sloth stretches out its legs and arms, as if it thinks it is flying. When the man put the sloth in a safe place, the sloth showed a cute expression, which made people love her even more. Although the sloth is a reptile and moves slowly, its survival is not threatened by predators.

I hope that we humans will not destroy the forests of the Americas and give them a healthy and safe home!

The slowest crawling animal in the world: the brown-throated sloth.

It has a gentle temperament and likes to be alone, but it lives a very lazy life, and spends its life at a slow pace. It is very sleepy, sleeping about 17 to 18 hours a day and night, and during the day it often chooses a leafy treetop, hooks the branch on its head with its forelimbs, leans its body against the trunk, bends its head to its chest, and does not move for several hours, so it is difficult to be detected. It is usually sluggish and weak, its three claws firmly grasp the trunk of a tree, it takes about 12 seconds to take a step, and it can only move up to a meter per minute, making it the slowest mammal in the world, even slower than a reptile tortoise.

Snails and sloths are slow-moving!

I feel like it's supposed to be a snail

The list of the slowest animals in the world is as follows:

1. Sea cucumber: 4 meters per hour.

Sea cucumbers are invertebrates. Although it is cylindrical, its thickness, shape, and size vary depending on the species. The endoskeleton of sea cucumbers is underdeveloped.

Under the microscope, many tiny calcareous bone fragments can be seen buried under the **, and often in large quantities. Sea cucumbers rely on muscle expansion to move themselves at a speed of about 4 meters per hour.

2. Snails: meters per hour.

Many species of snails are common on cold islands, but some are also common in the tropics. Snails are the most common mollusks on land. They have high edible and medicinal value.

Snails have lived on the earth since ancient times. Snails crawl slower and have a maximum speed of .

3. Starfish: 3 meters per hour.

Starfish are the most representative echinoderms in structural physiology. Its body is flat, mostly five radially symmetrical, and the border between the body disc and the wrist is not obvious. The starfish's mouth is facing downwards and the mouth of the opposite side is facing upwards.

The ventral side of the wan has a walking belt groove from which the pins protrude. The starfish has a groove in its abdomen with a number of pins with suction cups in the middle. Starfish rely on it to "walk" and catch prey.

However, starfish "walk" too slowly. On average, it can only "walk" a few centimeters per minute and a few meters per hour.

4. Three-toed sloth: 162 meters per hour.

The three-toed sloth is a small mammal in the genus Slothidae. The head is small and rounded, with a body length of 50-60 cm. Its needle hairs are long and coarse, and its fur is grayish-brown and green.

Three-toed sloths live in trees all their lives. It cannot stand and walk on the ground. Its average moving speed is 162 meters per hour.

It usually doesn't move for hours, so it's hard to spot. It sleeps more than 15 hours a day and is one of the slowest animals in the world.

5. Seahorse: 144 meters per hour.

Seahorse is the general term for several small warm marine fish in the pike family of the order Thornfish. It is a small marine animal with a body length of 5-30 cm. It gets its name because its head is curved at right angles to its body.

The hippocampus has a very beautiful swimming position. The body of the fish is upright in the water. It relies entirely on the high-frequency wave swing of the dorsal and pectoral fins, and the slow swimming speed is only 144 meters an hour. The hippocampus is slower, but it is effective at catching fast-moving, stealthy copepods.

The slowest animals in the world are sea cucumbers, snails, starfish, Galapagos tortoises, three-toed sloths, etc.

1. Sea cucumber

Sea cucumbers are invertebrates. Although it is cylindrical, its thickness, shape, and size vary from species to species, and sea cucumbers have underdeveloped bones; Under the microscope, many tiny calcareous bone masses can be seen buried under the **, and often in large quantities, sea cucumbers rely on muscle expansion to make themselves move at a speed of about 4 meters per hour.

2. Snails

Snails are the most common mollusks on land. They have high edible and medicinal value. Snails have lived on the earth since ancient times. Snails crawl slower and have a maximum speed of .

3. Starfish

Starfish are the most representative echinoderms in structural physiology. Its body is flat, mostly five radially symmetrical, the border between the body disc and the wrist is not obvious, with the starfish's mouth facing down and the opposite mouth facing upwards.

The ventral side of the wan has a walking belt groove from which the pins protrude. The starfish has a groove in its abdomen with a number of pins with suction cups in the middle. Starfish rely on it to "walk" and catch prey. However, starfish "walk" too slowly.

On average, it can only "walk" a few centimeters per minute and a few meters per hour.

4. Galapagos tortoise

The Galapagos turtle is the largest land turtle in the world, with a total of 9 species. The Galapagos tortoise is an ectothermic animal. Therefore, it needs to absorb the sun's heat after dawn.

It requires exposure to sunlight for 1-2 hours a day. It takes 8-9 hours a day to find food. Most of them move in the morning, go for a walk, and rest in the evening.

The species walks at a speed of 300 m h.

5. Three-toed sloths

The three-toed sloth is a small mammal in the genus Slothidae. The head is small and rounded, with a body length of 50-60 cm. Its needle hairs are long and coarse, and its fur is grayish-brown and green.

Three-toed sloths live in trees all their lives. It cannot stand and walk on the ground. Its average moving speed is 162 meters per hour. It usually doesn't move for hours, so it's hard to spot. It sleeps more than 15 hours a day and is one of the slowest animals in the world.