Slow Movers: Fun Facts About Sloths拖延家：樹懶趣聞

David Attenborough once said if he could be any animal， hewould be a sloth—because he would have a good life， with“nothingmuch to do”. Maybe he was talking about the fact that sloths are theslowest-moving mammals in the world. In fact， it will take you less timeto read this text than it takes a sloth to move a few meters.

大衛(wèi)·愛登堡（世界自然紀錄片之父）曾經(jīng)說過，如果他能變成任何一種動物，他會變成一只樹懶———因為這樣他可就過上好日子了，那就是“無所事事”。也許他說的是樹懶是世界上行動最慢的哺乳動物。事實上，你讀這篇文章所花的時間比一只樹懶移動幾米所花的時間還要少。

Slow movers and eaters它們行動遲緩且進食慢

Sloths travel fewer than 40 meters a day， onaverage2. They move slowly because they mostly eatleaves3， which don’t give them enough energy tomove quickly. It could take them as long as 30 daysto digest4 one leaf！ But this doesn’t affect5 theirpower. Sloths are about three times stronger than theaverage human.

樹懶平均每天行走不到40 米。它們行動緩慢，因為它們主要吃樹葉，樹葉不能給它們提供足夠快速移動的能量。它們可能需要長達30 天的時間來消化一片葉子！但這并不影響它們強壯有力。樹懶比普通人大約強壯三倍。

Tree hangers6它們是樹枝掛件

Sloths spend up to 90% of their lives hanging upsidedown in trees—mostly sleeping. A sloth sleeps between 15and 20 hours each day. Sometimes they fall7， and that’sokay！ They can fall up to 30 meters without getting hurt8，and on average they fall out of trees about once a week.And if they fall in water， that’s okay， too. Sloths aregood swimmers， and they move faster in water than theydo in trees！

樹懶一生中有近90%的時間都倒掛在樹上———大部分時間都在睡覺。樹懶每天要睡15到20個小時。有時它們會掉下來，但沒關系！它們可以從30米的高空墜落而不受傷，而且平均每周大概會從樹上掉下來一次。如果它們掉進水里，也沒關系。樹懶擅長游泳，它們在水中的移動速度比在樹上更快！

Their fur9 is a home for others它們的皮毛是其他動物的家園

Many different insects10 live in a sloth’s fur. It’s good for them becauseit’s warm and sometimes wet， and sloths don’t move much.

許多不同的昆蟲會住在樹懶的皮毛中。它們的皮毛很適合生存，因為這里溫暖且潮濕，而且樹懶不怎么活動。

（英語原文選自：engoo.id）