Eli5 How do Sloths actually survive ?

Question

With predators out there yet they aren’t endangered with their slow movements … how do they survive out there in nature ?

Does their meat taste bad?

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Answer 1

This is a common misconception! Sloths are actually slow because it helps them survive.

Their main predators are large cats like Ocelots, and large birds like eagles, which both find their prey by movement. By the sloth moving slow, it’s kind of invisible to its predators!

Also, they use very little energy, so they can survive for a long period of time without having to eat.