Slothy Sunday: Slow movement, slow metabolism

Sloths aren’t known for moving fast, but their metabolism is also pretty slow.

It can take a sloth up to 30 days to digest one leaf. In order to avoid accidentally poisoning themselves, sloths never eat too many leaves from one tree.

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