Half of them were sacrificed on the way to poop. Sloths are so lazy, why haven't they become extinct?

When it comes to the laziest animals in the world, there are koalas, turtles, giant pandas that are incredibly lazy. But our protagonist today, the sloth, is the undisputed king compared to them.

Sloths are sleeping for more than 15 hours a day, except when sleeping is eating, going to the toilet and on the way to the toilet. I am too lazy to chew the leaves when I eat every day, so I digest them slowly with saliva...

Such a lazy sloth, this is also a rare "decent person" in the animal kingdom! When other animals go to the toilet, they are usually thrown from high altitudes, and they are thrown directly to the ground on the tree. However, our uncle sloth, every time he goes to the toilet, he will slowly climb down from the tree and go to the designated place to go to the toilet.

Why are sloths so particular?

The reason why it is so particular about coming out is entirely because of its symbiotic animal - the sloth moth. The sloth moth is an animal that feeds on the skin secretions of the sloth, and the sloth also relies on the sloth moth to survive in nature. As for the reason, we will talk about it later.

It is precisely because the two sides are symbiotic and rely on each other, the sloth moth's flight function gradually degrades. You can't get too far from a sloth, so most sloth moths will only live on one sloth in their lifetime.

After birth, sloth moth pups must live in organic-rich food, which happens to be such an environment in sloth dung. Therefore, for the reproduction of their symbiotic partners, sloths will regularly go to the designated place to go to the toilet.

In this way, the sloth moth can be guaranteed to lay eggs smoothly, and the cubs can fly back to the sloth when they become adults. The seemingly lazy sloth is actually very warm.

Why do sloths work so hard to help sloth moths?

The sloth is a well-known animal. It is very lazy. It sleeps every day, and its food is relatively simple. It only eats 60 grams of leaves a day, and it can not eat for a month without starving to death.

And its travel speed is very sense, the average moving distance of people is only 2.7 meters per minute. So every time it goes to the toilet, it is a threatening behavior. According to rough statistics, 50% of the people die on the way to the toilet.

And since he is so lazy and moving so slowly, he is very particular about going to the toilet. It feels like an animal that has been abandoned by the sky, and it has not yet become extinct, all thanks to its symbiotic partner, the sloth moth.

Said that the reason why it has not become extinct until now, the biggest credit is the sloth moth. During thousands of years of evolution, sloths have become more and more lazy and live in trees every day, so in order to avoid predators, they use the camouflage of simulated environments.

The algae on the sloths are the most natural and effective in the degree of camouflage. And if the algae on it want to grow densely, it needs the help of sloth moths. So they form a symbiosis. The sloth provides food for the sloth moth, and the sloth moth provides the sloth with a protective color. These two animals are really a match made in heaven.

But I still admire the sloth brothers, you know, nearly 50% of sloths die on the way to the toilet. So the sloth is helping the sloth moth with life, such a loyal animal is rare in the animal kingdom.

Although the sloth is not extinct, its population size is declining. The main reason is the shrinking of the rainforest area caused by human activities. Their habitat has also been affected, of course, and because they move too slowly, it is difficult for them to communicate with sloth genes elsewhere, so the phenomenon of "specialization" is getting worse.