Watching a sloth climbing is truly mesmerizing. The muscles that sloths use to grip and produce a pulling motion are much more prominent than those that produce a pushing movement because sloths primarily use their arms to pull themselves upwards or to pull branches towards the body. Sloth muscles are also predominantly made up of specialized slow-twitch fibers (also called type 1 muscles) and produce the slow, deliberate, and controlled movements shown by sloths. Visit our website and learn abo

It’s time for a dip! The pygmy three-toed sloth is the slowest moving land mammal in the world. They move around two metres per minute! However, when swimming, they’re capable of moving around three times faster. Their diet of leaves generates large amounts of gas in the sloth’s stomach, helping to keep them buoyant. | BBC Earth

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