Researchers from the University of Wisconsin in Madison, studied Costa Ricans sloths and they concluded that their movements and “lazy” lifestyle are related to the adaptation of living in trees.
They also studied sloths from other Latin American countries.
The research discovered that a diet of leaves and plants has little nutritional value, so that, animals need to supplement or optimize their diets in any other ways.
For the sloth, for example, that means spending minimal amounts of energy through a reduction in metabolic rate and body temperature regulation. So they experience the world in slow motion,
affirmed the study.
Sloths’ lifestyle is seen by experts as the ‘rarest’ among vertebrates and Costa Rica is one of the countries where the presence of sloths is highly appreciated by tourists.