Why are sloths so slow? - Kenny Coogan
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Sloths spend most of their time eating, resting, or sleeping; in fact, they descend from their treetops canopies just once a week, for a bathroom break. How are these creatures so low energy? Kenny Coogan describes the physical and behavioral adaptations that allow sloths to be so slow.
Lesson by Kenny Coogan, animation by Anton Bogaty.
"They spend most of their time eating, resting, sleeping." I think Im a sloth.
Same here. I've always wondered why algae keeps growing on me and why I only have 3 toes.
whiz 85 you are a lazy three toed bitch ;)
Im a motherfuckin stargirl look what you've done
thimothy george lol
Im a motherfuckin stargirl omg same
They eat the algae that grows on their back as a snack...............................I think we just found the smartest animal on earth
Polar Bear Gamez We are surely smart.
Polar Bear Gamez there taking you are what you eat to a new level
There no Angilish
What if thomas jefforson ate the bones for a snack. lol
Or the laziest.
What if big foot was just an extinct giant sloth?
😨😱
Plausible
Could be
omg possible
Nah the temperatures are too cold for the Sloth to live in. Also lack of leaves.
But I like how you think.
Okay but why did someone give Thomas Jefferson a box of bones, and not tell em anything about it
my teacher taught me that researcher back then were all do the sharing 'new thing', they will basically send new discoveries to other researcher and find out what it is and etc. i guess that is why the sender give it to jefferson hoping him would find out about the bones :)
It's the 17th century's version of "it was just a prank bro"
Joel Swabon so they can know more about it
Because they wanted a CZcams video to be made about them duh
@@yosiemargaretha67 who is your teacher? They seem smart!
Ancient sloths and avocados? Say no more.
Emantheseeker
Interesting fact: The avocados today are more sweeter then the early ones that giant sloths eat. The giant sloth were the last ice age mega fauna to go extinct. The sloths were the only animal that can spread the avacado seeds. We humans are the reason avocados still exist.
I'm pretty sure almost every plant that grows a fruit, nut, or veggie today has been breed to be sweeter, bigger, and/or tangier...
no duh the avocados today are sweeter
it's "are sweeter" not "are more sweeter".....
Be more chill, like a sloth.
Not just avocados, *PREHISTORIC* avocados.
Mom: you are so lazy!
me: im conserving my energy.
we evolved from sloths
I'm sloth
Too bad I don't have a mom😢
Soo sloths sleep a Lot and slow.............i think im an sloth guys ;0;
Am just in power saving mode
I’m sorry but I lost it the minute you said “Ancient Avocados”
SAME
I did too? And I have no idea why😂. Maybe it has gotten to do with a little thing I heard about French people having accents so thick, they can't even say avocado
plot twist:
they actually live in their dreams. When we think they sleep they are awake somewhere else
How the hecc do u get no comments but 134 likes?
First reply
Woah, that's deep
Write a book. It will be glorious
mans really just wrote the plot for Matrix: Resurrecting sloths
Hm
They're so fast you can't see them move
And giant sloths are so fast you cant see them at all
Just as spinners...😹
@@tenzingchopelbhutia3024
Underrated
Hope nobody will correct this guy and get r/whoooshed
@@kolikois yep
I want to revive the gaint sloths
Evanston Conner #metoo
Evanston Conner YEESSS
Evanston Conner me to so I could sell the giant sloth
Is that dangerous
It's like reviving a t-Rex or some Dino sugar
But same REVIVE THE SLOTH :D
Yojana Castillo umm I know it's a joke :p
Fun fact: In vietnamese, sloths are called “lười” which means “lazy”.
It's the same in portuguese!
We call them "preguiça"
Same in Mexico! They're called "perezosos" or "lazies"
I dansk, “sloths” hedder dovendyr, som betyder “lazy animal”
Proverbs 12:24 KJV
The hand of the diligent shall bear rule: but the slothful shall be under tribute.
The same in Russian!
"Time is like gold."
Sloth language: Time is but an illusion.
I can imagine a turtle and sloth crossing the road together.
Kinda like that joke...
@@tomlaskowski6191 Why did the sloth and the turtle cross the road?
It's so long since they set out, neither can remember.
Zac Mumblethunder Haha, nice. 😂
Then a car comes, and splat! Theyre both sleeping in a puddle of blood.. Hmm
@@Cephaloporridge ez
those prehistoric avocados
Its easy slowths=me are lazy
LARAUJO the fruit is pretty much a seed barely and fruit inside
We saved them, if it weren't for humans those fruit would've died with the sloths.
Yes tottaly
LARAUJO it’s an prehistoric avocado.......thhaaaannnkksssss
me: well you sure are a pretty remarkable fellow
sloth: *dies from constipation*
"the heaviest of them weighing 3 metric tons"
"they used their claws to climb trees"
poor trees
Trees were a lot bigger/stronger when the giant sloths were around
"they compensate by not moving very much, they spend the majority of their time eating, resting or sleeping and descend from the canopy once per week for a bathroom break"- accurate description of teens in summer break
Teens like me.*
BOOOOOOOOOOOI u so stupid. That is not an accurate description at all, or at least should not be. Did you know there wasn't even a word such as teen in the 19th century? There was only children and adult. The age of teenagers was first planted because of labor laws; there were ADULTS who were not allowed to work. Many teens are thought of as lazy, immature, but why won't they? Teens were always working well before the 19th century, but now do not. Why? because they are not allowed too.
My cousin started a non-for profit organization that donates money to kids with cancer, and HE WAS ONLY 15. My cousin got onto the Boston Whitecaps at age 17, and is slowly moving up the ranks. How dare you suggest that teens are such lazy things.
If you want more info on what teens are doing, get this book, "Do Hard Things" by Alex and Brett Harris, who i believe were teens when they wrote the book. It is a phenomenal book that can change your life and view about teens.
Caleb no offense but I immediately don't trust anything you just said because you said the word 'boi' again no offense.
Caleb Taylor it was a joke calm down
kia blackburn I can confirm
Sid is the only sloth who can move fast.
There's also his family, Granny, and Brooke, and other giant ground sloths and mini sloths. Believe it or not, Sid is actually a Megatherium but looks nothing like the actual species.
Uh, are we forgetting the big man in the room?
*zaboomafoo*
@@omegaultramax Zaboomafoo is a lemur
Tnvmark but he smaller than manny
He’s just a little mentally slow, but that’s ok 😅
He protecc,
He attacc,
But most importantly,
He got some snacc in his bacc.
S N A C C
*he got a snacc back
Copied
Y U M M Y
He don't protecc and he don't attacc
He just eat snacc
I want to be a vet when I grow up and this CZcams channel has been helping me learn about animals a lot. Thanks TED-Ed!
Sloths are so unproblematic. I love em.
Every animal is unproblematic (except us)
@@Sirrajj WOW ,how
@@Sirrajj yes cats are unpronblematic, imagine if they kill 4.0 billion birds a year lol
@@Sirrajj I think dolphins are problematic as well
Because of global warming and lose of habitats the wild life of animal are now being problimatic. They aren't some 2,0000 years ago or so, it's because of modern human that makes them problimatic nowadays😃
Not going to lie... I really love this animation.
Jaiden Cross agreed
Reminds me of Dexter's Laboratory or some other Nickelodeon/Cartoon Network show.
Jaiden Cross same
I love the voice too, they should make more like this one!
Jaiden Cross look up for super science friends in CZcams i think its the same animator
I recently wrote an essay about sloths for my course and why they are so slow. Wish I'd seen this video beforehand to further clarify my thesis. Great job!
Is nobody gonna appreciate how they made the animation so cute and adorable!?
That sloth is chill a.f.
TheVictini44 Sloths are netflix and chill and smokes weed everyday
An Uncanny Can u know it
+SlothDrop ayyyy
Sloths are the stoners of the animal kingdom
They even grow their own weed :v
S A D G A N G and they sre LAZZY
koalas are the stoners of the animal kingdom. sloths are more like the lazy, good for nothing couch potatoes
S A D G A N G How dare you..
Marley Chapo haha you are funny!!however we are part of the animal kingdom
Addison is really something, whenever I listen to his voice I just feel relaxed and because of that I always listen to his narration when I need to sleep
We could've had a elephant sized vegan sloth. Sometimes I hate our ancestors
I'm. not. Famous. since when are animals vegans? they're herbivores lmao
that would be so awesome and *cute* T_T
they're herbivores dude. humans can be vegan but animals cant be vegan
I could've been something natural and not humans but i doubt that humans even knew how to make weapons or even exist at that time
Im a bit late(2 years lmao) but im pretty sure humans weren’t the biggest factor in their extinction. Humans were still in the stone age back then so they wouldn’t of had the population or tools needed to kill most of the sloths.
Those animators deserves a prize...there imagination is on different level...
*their
And yes, i agree.
You mean evolution deserves a prize because it's imagination is on another level
7
@@HopeRock425 not imagination there’s proof
@@theycallmedeez3245 no I am saying evolution has a good imagination.
But... why am i so lazy and slow?
Take B vitamins. Seriously.
Meda Jablonskyte 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Maybe some crazy scientist genetically modified a sloth's brain (you) and put in a artificially grown baby human body. And your whole life is a lie...
who knows?
Meda Jablonskyte cause you only eat plants
I
2:42 "but leaves don't contain much energy". Wait. Are you telling me If vegetarian people only ate leaves they would slowly become sloths? 😂🙈
Not ofense intented
I dont know someone who eats leaves
Normally you get your energy from fruits or seeds
But it would be rly nice
No war everybody smiles the whole day
@@custommade2905 yay
I am not vegan
But vegan food contains low energy compared to non-veg in terms of ATP .
So if u are vegan and want to build a big body u have much more then a non veg .
Thats why herbivore animals keeps eating for hours
More importantly, why are they so cute? 😭
i missed this guy's voice
Very clear voice. Kreygasm
RocketPawnch watch until the end where they run the credits. The voice is Addison Anderson. I like his voice a lot. It's very soothing.
rottentwapple ikr
LagiNaLangAko23 One video was already enough to miss Addison Anderson.
Константин Сокрюкин lol agreed
2:19 This image is actually great.
Yeah its so cozy
Wow,so you are saying it's great that there are only 6 species left in the world as emphasized by the picture?
@@jekesan4221 I don't think that's what he meant
@@jekesan4221
Yeah, he probably only meant his opinion on how this image looked, not the fact that: *_the world is depressing because of both our species existing and hogging up every and all resources and polluting and destroying my god there is never gonna be a bright side only dark and despair._*
Until covid-19 came in and pollution decreased, guess there is finally a bright side there.
Omg I'm just kidding 😂,I guess my sarcasm game is too strong,yeah I get what the OP trying to say
Man imagine how amazing they would look if they were still around
Fun facts with me:
•my favorite animal has been a sloth since i was 5
•by coincidence my dad made my Xbox account called EagerSloth66921 before he knew I liked sloths
• I now use that account every day
Last but not least
• I am a sloth
.-.
Your not a sloth, you are a human.
@@kataki9665 woooosh
@@ck7993 lol
Must've been a default name when everyone makes an account
some trivia:
Megalonyx: Megalo (big) + Onyx (nails/claws)
Megatherium: Mega (big) + Therium (beast/monster)
I am greek
Nice :)
I wanna learn Greek. I want to, in my adult years, learn different languages, fluent in two more with a few more with a more rudimentary skills (enough to help in an emergency) in others. Because why not? What does anyone else think of this?
Caleb Griffin, why in your adult years? If you have time you can learn in any age. I'm 13, almost 14, started learning English as 12. I don't really know if I am actually fluent, but I can communicate if the talk is about general subjects.
Lack of resources as of now except a twice weekly German Class an hour a piece, plus another hour's homework (at our school it's called home LEARNING because "it shouldn't be seen as a task but an opportunity to expand your knowledge"). German is fluent Language no 1 I wanna learn, next is Japanese because it's supposed to be among the most difficult to learn and (a more recently realised advantage believe it or not) I can watch action anime without missing shit because I was reading the subs, the final reason I picked it is because if the language is so different with words that english lacks it'll expand my understanding of things. 14 also by the way.
Caleb Griffin, ok then, good luck in your language learning.
they evolved so they could be lazy
me: *bruh im litreally a sloth then*
Bruuhhh saaame.
Bruuuuuuhhhh 400
bruuuuuuuuuuuuu 1000
XD
Bruhhhhhhh
“Mom, I want to be a sloth when I grow up.”
*zootopia entered the chat*
"They spend most of their time eating, resting or sleeping."
So I'm actually a sloth. Glad to know that
i kinda want giant sloths to be back. they sure were cool
Bloi Same bro your not the only one
Bloi did you meet them??
Bloi same
Bloi same
Bloi?
imagine an alternate realty where those huge sloths were still around
We would all be dead. The therizinosaur would kill us all
@@highnootnoot7254 How do you know their behavior? Maybe they're friendly or herbivores.
i think the real question should be, why are they so damn cute 😂
Real answer: So we can admire their cuteness
Last time I was this early the giant sloths weren't extinct
G. Yoh lol
G. Yoh T O P I C A L H U M O R .
Something is very wrong with those sloths because they can swim very fast. I believe they are playing tricks with us and hold olympic games if nobody's watching.
Christoph G. omg
lmao
They swim fast?
Whatch hero 108 and yole see
Christoph G. hahahaha XD
"you are what you eat"
Basically sloth and pandas more and more becoming unmoving vegetables xD
Thanks prehistoric Sloths, I will enjoy my guacamole appreciating about your efforts
I fucking love sloths.
sex-addict : i love fucking sloths!
thank you
IzaDo a gaint sloth would be awsome to ride into battle
Owen Sloth I subscribed to u because Ur a sloth
same!!! they're my fave animal along w/ dogs
who else loves the animation ? 😊
Your Mom
Your Mom does
Fucking prepubescent kid
Me
*”They always wanna sleep and they like avacocodos”*
Maybe I am a sloth
I don't know why but the thought of a 'PREHISTORIc avacado' is just hilarious
He protecc
He attacc
But most importantly
He eats tree snacc
CoSmoS
*he eats back snack*
CoSmoS I hate you😭😭
Dude..i see your thumb nail all the time..but you use different names..lol
@@beansquid6588 what is the up?
@@sandydavis6765 its a dead meme
love how you get right to the point
"They spend most of their time eating, resting or sleeping"
Me having an identical crisis be like
Aaaaaah, my spirit animal.
I recently did research on animal habitats being destroyed. One of the things I read about is that forests are being cut down, which means that sloths have no where to hide , rest, eat, and live. I saw this one article about how a sloth was wondering around on the streets because it’s home was destroyed. And while that sloth was crossing a road, it got ran over by a car. Sloths are slow and meant to live in trees with little movements. But now they can’t even live in peace. There’s only 6 species of them left. I almost cried when I saw that article because sloths are just like me.
( I might have gotten facts wrong but you get my point. Also my grammar is not the best because I’m not very good at English. Forgive me.)
Chumamabangedchupapa I’m sorry maybe they should make some sort of sloth bridge. I heard that power lines are shocking them and they get burns and sometimes die from it.
@@theresahall6197 Well, what would be the MOST help would be to curb the deforestation. Things like a sloth bridge are a nice idea (and certainly easier to implement), but ultimately, it only treats a symptom. It does nothing to cure the disease, so to speak. Loss of habitat due to pollution, deforestation, urban sprawl (and probably other reasons as well, those are just the ones I can think of off-hand) is probably the biggest threat to animal species today.
😞😢 We humans are responsible for this 😭
some worst type of Humans are responsible for destroying the nature, i mean some Humans are really protective amongst them so cannot include everyone but most
@@mr.sandhu587 a chick called for albert search the name he's an animal lover and its really fun to watch them
Soo... sloths are american koalas?
Uh, Who are you?
They don’t live in America
South american*
weeb lord south AMERICA
You know america can refer to the american continents and not just USA ffs
Sam Umm no they live in south and central AMERICA
🤦♂️ USA is not america its only a country in america
Thank you 🙏 for your support
This is what I like, Cartoon animation to entertain the viewers, So that they don't get bored, Keep up the work!
reminded me of sloth in zootopia flash
Aryarik exactly.😂
Aryarik oh
same
Yeah , same here
Aryarik yesss haha
Maybe it is all of us that we are too fast
AdoKraT For the sloths it could be the case lol
Ted ed answers to every question that is wandering in my mind
Sloths give a real meaning of patience in life😂🤣
Aw... The sloth animated here is so cute :3
Fun fact, a lot of sloths two in one of two ways
1: mistake their arm for a tree branch and fall to their death
2.) die trying to digest food.
2 in one of 2 ways.
wat
Not exactly fun facts
Ricky Darrison you forgot how they have to poop so they go to the ground and that’s mostly where they get eaten
Blame their ancestors for just eating the leaves soo much that they became lazy and slow
日本語字幕が選べる！ありがたいです！絵も可愛いし勉強になりました。ナマケモノって不思議でかわいくて、すごい！
TITLE: Why sloths are so slow
Me: I DON'T NEED SLEEP I NEED ANSWAR
It takes them 5 minutes to cross a road. How long does it take them to make love? i wanna be a sloth now.
Maybe now you won't finish in 10 seconds
thats why i wanna be a sloth, captain timer
+Not_Pit_Kid_Icarus LOL
Alozxcvb👵👴😦
Alkiopxzcvbbbp👵👴😦
Eat
Sleep
Rest
Repeat
Well that's exactly what I have been doing my all life!
Baklol Master me too😬
It is a mystery that a slow-moving species is still surviving. It could have been hunted to extinction by predators such as eagles a long time ago. In fact, sloths are good swimmers of reasonable speed.
Predators don't eat them coz they taste bad. That's a fact. Eagles use them to train little ones how to hunt.
@@AshutoshShelkeP Tasting bad is a great survival skill. Birds do not bother to eat the slugs in my garden too.
@@duthebestlion yes
True information about Sloth: czcams.com/video/r5C_2C6_EYA/video.html
The love the artstyle in this video.
I love ted-ed. Its like tiny pieces of candy for my brain
Waitt.... Imagine when they're making another sloth.. It'll be weird
Oh god
1 sloth exists, he travels trough bodies and controls them all.
The hive minds repartition makes them slow
U can ride a giant sloth and give a full body hug. We need this again
CZcams: why are sloths slow?
Me: they on drugs homey...
maybe they're are a normal speed and were just really fast 😦
alicia addo Yeah, You guys move at 100 miles.
Nah, if it was normal, many animals would be slow.
alicia addo maybe but if that is true that doesn’t go for me Because I am as slow a sloth
alicia addo
I think it's just perspective. Sloths may think that they move normal and we move fast, while we think that they move slow and we move normal.
We're
2:10
I think I’m gonna draw my sloths like that now
I'm deeply troubled by the sloth slander that occurs within my friend group despite videos like this offering a far more favorable insight into the laid-back ways of this magnificent animal. I can only hope that they grow to appreciate the way of the sloth ~~>_
animation was so on point
I think I'm a sloth
General Taco u r
Never seen you in the wild, Most likely not.
Me to
Nvm I'm not dat slow
I hav all the engergy I need XD
Me too
This is my spirit animal
"They spend most of their time eating, resting, sleeping" is that exactly like me🙁
OMG I LOVE SLOTHS THANK YOUS SO MUCH FOR THE SLOTHS OUT THERE FOR KEEPING AVOCADOS 🥑
In human society everyone has to be productive and hard working also constantly learning to be successful...
Slots are like: nah fam just chill maaan, don't worry
I was born in the wrong species
O'Ari a
Maybe i was too.. ! ✌😚😂😂😂😂😂
Sloths you mean
Humans can chill out. Like islanders or living a minimalistic live. Why would you want low energy forced on you anyways? Don't you have dreams you want to accomplish? Aging will drain energy enough. And it's unwanted by many people.
Flash, Flash, hundread yard dash.
Yehuda Moshe Ftaya Lololol, that's what I was thinking!
Questions I didn’t think I’d need to ask but found interesting to know.
I Love how this things are animated
Calling them slow is offensive. They prefer the term Running-Impaired.
Lol!! Nice one...
Offended sloth
madcat789 stop making fun of people's disabilities and their sensitivities
no.
infused. beauty stop being over sensitive
In Finnish sloths are called laiskiainen which basicly means that they are lazy
Ender gaming 51 same in spanish perezosos
Same in vietnamese
Same in portuguese
Man Lamp but in portuguese it's literally lazyness-animal
Same in german: Faultier, "faul" meaning sloth and "tier" meaning animal.
Sloths are slow?
Me- Oh boy! You haven't seen me yet!
"Image giving the sloths an energy boost they just become Usain bolt"
Shoutout to sloths for being lazy and proud
Dat Boi Kermit Thank you.
Roses are red
Violets are blue
I want a pet sloth
And so do you.
Well, I guess I just found my spirit animal!
Beautiful video, very informative
I edited this comment so no one will know why i got so many likes
#AvocadoHeros
RafBen #AvocadosAreDisgusting
And stop using hashtags. I only used one to mock you :)
@@thekatzenzug damn, that was out of left field but ok lmao
Hereos?
FUS RO DAH
" ground sloths first appeared 35 million years ago" didn't knew my family was that old
Eating, resting and sleeping? I've found my ancestors..
Found my spirit animal y'all,"they spend most of their time eating, resting,and sleeping"