Sloths are surprisingly stronger than their adorably dopey expressions suggest, which makes sense given they live their lives dangling from trees literally by their bony fingernails.
Puzzlingly, in spite of using all four limbs to grip onto branches, sloths seem to be extra strong on their left side compared to their right. New York Institute of Technology anatomist Melody Young and colleagues discovered this in the first ever attempts to accurately measure the strength of a brown-throated three-toed sloth.
Very few mammals are shaped for a life spent almost exclusively in the canopy, especially those existing on just leaves. Quite frankly, while you'd have no shortage of food, extracting enough nutrients from the fibrous plant material is hard going. like giraffes and moose, get around this problem by utilizing a large digestive system. Not all mammals can afford to bulk up in ways that help process the tough, nutrient-poor plant materials, though.
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