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[Intro]
It only does it about once a week but why does it come down to the ground to do it?
And why does it nearly always choose to do so in exactly the same place?
Whatever the reason it must be very important for a sloth on the ground is almost helpless
Any predator can attack it and it doesn’t have the speed to escape
Why it comes down in this way is a mystery

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[Interlude]
Leaves are not very nutritious
The sloth’s way of compensating for all that is not to eat more but to do less
Its claws hook over the branches so that the sloth can hang without any effort of its muscles which have been reduced to thin ribbons, and to save energy it spends most of its time hanging around half asleep in the treetops