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TED-Ed: 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... 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.
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Pre-K - Higher Ed
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Date
2017
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English
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environmental science, south america, body temperature, diet, species, time, animals, mammals, bones, north, leaves, years, trees, food, energy
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history, life sciences, science & technology, social studies, ground sloths, toed sloths, body, today, moving, muscle, slowest, habitat, sloths, long, lion, huge, jefferson, central, fact, extinct
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