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The 'Busy' Life of the Sloth | BBC Earth
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In this tree, there is one of the most extraordinary plant predators.
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It's one animal that I don't need to sneak up on.
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Boo!
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This extraordinary creature is half-blind, half-deaf
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and this is just about as fast as it can move.
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That's what can happen to you if you live on nothing but leaves.
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It's a sloth.
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It's not exactly an enthusiastic leaf-eater.
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A couple of half-hearted chews
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and the leaves go straight down to its stomach.
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Leaves, however, are not easily digested.
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The sloth's technique is to give them time.
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Then, eventually, this mobile compost heap pulls itself together
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and starts on a long and dangerous journey.
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This is a very unusual sight, a sloth in a hurry.
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It wants to defecate and the only place it is happy doing that, oddly enough,
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is down on the ground.
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It only does it about once a week...
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but why does it come down to the ground to do it?
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And why does it nearly always choose to do so in exactly the same place?
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Whatever the reason, it must be very important,
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for a sloth on the ground is almost helpless.
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Any predator could attack it and it doesn't have the speed to escape.
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Why it comes down in this way is a mystery.
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Nobody knows.
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Now it's finished and back it goes, up to the safety of the canopy.
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Leaves are not very nutritious.
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The sloth's way of compensating for that is not to eat more, but to do less.
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Its claws hook over the branches,
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so that the sloth can hang without any effort of its muscles,
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which have been reduced to thin ribbons.
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And to save energy, it spends most of its time hanging around,
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half-asleep, in the tree-tops.
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So with very little muscle
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and a reaction time only a quarter as fast as ours,
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how does a sloth's day compare with our day?
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In the time it takes me to write a few letters,
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the sloth just about manages to groom itself.
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While we have our lunch, the sloth nibbles a few leaves.
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And then, as we film a sequence for the series,
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it's time for another nap.
