45. Galapagos Tortoise and Three Toed Sloth

Weird Animal Facts: Explicit

'Slow down, you move too fast.
You’ve got to make this podcast last,
Go and look at the Galapagos
Tortoise and sloth, they move real slowly.'
Two of the slowest animals on the planet are the Galapagos Tortoise and 3-toed-sloth. Today we look to the animals to learn how to slow down and relax in this fast paced world. Learn how, the made famous via Charles Darwin, Galapagos Giant Tortoise, got to the islands, how they survive without food and water when they were stolen and shoved on to boats and how hell do they live so dame long. Like 200 years! Is it their slower pace in life or is it just genetics?
As for the three-toed sloth (not the two-toed sloth), they too are slow, even slower than the Galapagos Tortoise. And although sloth is one of the 7 deadly sins the sloth themselves have found a way to make their life worthy of this world. And it has to do with their poop! And Pyralid moths!
Scientific Names
Galapagos Tortoise: Chelonoidis spp.
Pygmy three-toed sloth: Bradypus pygmaeus
Maned sloth: Bradypus torquatus
Pale-throated sloth: Bradypus tridactylus
Brown-throated sloth: Bradypus variegatus
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https://galapagosconservation.org.uk/
https://www.worldwildlife.org/species/sloth
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