What was is the slowest animal on earth?

Answer 1

Answer 1

The three-toed sloth

someone called a "sloth" or "slow as a sloth" because they move really slowly? That's because the sloth -- especially the three-toed sloth -- is the slowest animal around. Their legs and feet are shaped to hang from trees, so it's actually hard for sloths to walk on the ground. They can't run or stand upright on their feet. It would take a sloth nearly a month to walk one mile.

Answer 2

Another reason they are considered the slowest is that they can remain, or appear to remain moitionless for very long periods of time and, when they eventually do move, it is usually not very far at any one time. They are capable of faster movement when threatened, but mostly do nothing more than what they were already doing, very little. However, all species of sloths are adept swimmers. Sloths are not even in contention in first thousand slowest creatures as this is measured by each creatures "fastest" natural obtainable speed, but sloths may be the slowest mammal.

For the category of slowest animal, most shellfish and other marine life may need to be discounted, as many become permanently attached to obstacles or other marine life or environment for all their entire juvenile and adult life once achieving "Spat" size, such as oysters.

Other moving creatures that may vie for slowest speed are, Aphids, Chitons, Starfish, Urchins and some Bivals. I am sure there are many more, so please add some of your potentials , land or marine creatures, in the Discuss Question area so we can further research all our answers over time.

Answer 2

the sloth is much slower than a crocodile. Crocodiles can move very quickly when they want to, usually when they are ambushing their prey. Crocodiles are very fast on land but cannot barely turn into another direction.

Answer 3

tortoise

Other slow animals include sloths and snails.

Answer 4

the three toed sloth

Answer 5

its the snail

Answer 6

The sloth.