for you - jhfly

It only does it about once a week but why does it come down to the ground to do

it?

And why does it nearly always choose to do so in exactly the same place?

Whatever the reason it must be very important for a sloth on the ground is

almost helpless

Any predator can attack it and it doesn’t have the speed to escape

Why it comes down in this way is a mystery

Leaves are not very nutritious

The sloth’s way of compensating for all that is not to eat more but to do less

Its claws hook over the branches so that the sloth can hang without any effort

of its muscles which have been reduced to thin ribbons, and to save energy it

spends most of its time hanging around half asleep in the treetops