We have heard stories of tortoises and hares racing since we were young. Are turtles the slowest moving animal in the world? Actually, it’s not. When it comes to slower, the turtle can only be regarded as a younger brother. Then do you know which animal is the slowest moving in the world? How slow can it be? How many slow-moving animals can you think of? With your curiosity, today we will take a look at the ten slowest animals in the world.
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Gilah poisonous lizard
No. 10,Gilah poisonous lizard.
Gilra poisonous lizard grows about 38 to 58 cm, moves slowly, has a short tail, and is an organ that stores fat. The body is covered by tiny and non-overlapping scales and is a famous lizard in North America. When they were found in the southwestern United States, humans believed that they were not threatening because they were moving too slowly. This guy has terrible venom at birth, which is in his jaw, and his teeth are very sharp, so they can be self-reliant after they are born and never rely on their parents. When hunting food, you usually use venom to kill the prey and then swallow it slowly. Although this guy is slow to move, he can still attack quickly and shoot out deadly poison when attacked or hunted. Their prey includes small birds and eggs, and young birds. Usually swallowed whole, moisture and nutrition can be said to kill two birds with one stone. The of the jira savage lizard metabolizes slowly, so after every full meal, this guy chooses to rest quietly. This poisonous lizard hiding in underground caves 390% of the time, and will not go out until you need to have a meal or sunbathe again.
koala
ninth place, koala.
Koala, also known as Koala , is a marsupial endemic to Australia and a national treasure of Australia. It is mainly distributed in the northeast of the Great Dividing of Australia. The areas where it lives are mainly tropical and subtropical climates. The koala recipe only has eucalyptus leaves , and can get 90% of the water you need from the feeding eucalyptus leaves. You can only drink water when you are sick and drought. A scientist once conducted an experiment, putting the koala in a cage and stopping feeding. After a few days, the leaves of other types of eucalyptus and other plants were fed instead of food, but the koala was unmoved and would rather be hungry than eat other foods. Eucalyptus leaves, as a relatively low-level nutrient, do not provide enough energy for koalas, so koalas spend nearly 17 to 20 hours a day sleeping, with only four hours remaining for eating and activities. It is not an exaggeration to say that koala is one of the lazy animals. Even during the foraging period, koala will suddenly fall asleep. It can be said that she is really lazy to be home.
bee monkey
8th place, bee monkey.
Bee monkey is a smaller ape category. Because it likes to eat honey, it is called bee monkey. They are species in the tropical and subtropical forests of Southeast Asia. They are 28 to 38 cm long and weigh 680 to one kilogram. They mainly feed on flowers, leaves, berries and insects. They are distributed in Southeast Asia and northeastern South Asia. They stay in trees most of the time and cannot come down. They only come out to find something to eat at night. They move slowly and will accelerate when they encounter enemies. Someone once observed that it took 12 seconds to move a bee and monkey. Bee monkeys are the only toxic elbow animal. Their venom glands are located on the elbow. Whenever they encounter danger, they will throw out the venom and sometimes apply the venom around their children to prevent the child from being eaten. If bitten by a monkey, it will cause wound infection, swelling or stomachache, but it is not fatal. This venom also prevents them from growing parasite . They spend most of their time in the trees, and when they encounter danger, they curl up into a ball and roll down to escape the enemy's attack. They also have a way to protect themselves, which is that they will wear a protective clothing, making it difficult for enemies to spot them. This protective clothing is some algae plants .Plants absorb the water vapor and carbonic acid emitted from their bodies and continue to grow on them, wrapping it up, looking like a protective suit.
slug
7th place, slug.
is called slug in some parts of southern my country, commonly known as slug , which is a mollusk . Common slugs are like snail without shells. The adult body is 30 to 60 mm long, the body is four to six mm wide, the inner shell is four mm long, and the width is 2.3 mm long, long spindle-shaped, soft and smooth without shells, or move under the wet soil at the roots of the crop when the adult body or larvae is moved under the wet soil at the roots of the crop. From May to July, there are a lot of activities in the fields, and this little guy is afraid of light and dies in two or three hours under the strong light. Therefore, he is active at night and starts to move from the evening. The peak is 10:00 to 11:00 in the evening, and before the morning, it gradually sneaks into the soil or hidden places. It has extremely strong endurance and can not eat or move under food deficiency. He moves extremely slowly, at a speed of only 320 meters per hour.
Galapagos elephant tortoise
No. 6, Galapagos elephant tortoise.
Galapagos tortoise is the largest existing tortoise in the world , and is also one of the top ten longest-lived animals in the world, with a longest lifespan of up to 200 years. The Galapagos tortoise is a population called, with a total of 14 subspecies, and is only distributed in the Galapagos Islands and inhabits different islands. This guy has an extremely slow pace of life every day. He has to bask in the sun for one to two hours every day, foraging for eight to nine hours a day, and moves in the early morning, rest in the evening, and walks at a speed of 300 meters per hour, mainly feeding on cactus, grass and leaves. The most surprising thing is that this turtle can not drink water for a long time. When water and food are cut off, they can still survive for up to a year and a half. They have very strong vitality. The main reason is that every time they drink water, they will store some water in their bodies. In their world, all behavior is slow, which also includes metabolism.
Three-toed sloth
No. 5, three-toed sloth.
The three-toed sloth is a mammal with a body length of only 50 to 60 cm. It lives in a tree all its life, and does whatever it does on the tree. It can only rely on its limbs to hang its body on the tree, and even sleeps on the branches or sits in the middle of the tree branch. Once it landed on the ground, it could not walk or stand, but strangely, this guy could actually swim in the water. This guy has a very poor vision and hearing, mainly relying on smell and touch to forage. They like to eat young leaves and buds. The three-toed sloth has a small appetite and only eats 60 grams of leaves a day. Some studies have even found that sloth will not starve to death even if she doesn't eat for a month. Since the leaves contain very little energy, three-toed sloths must save energy as much as possible, and laziness is their way of saving energy. The three-toed sloth often doesn't move for hours and doesn't like to move. They sleep for at least 15 minutes a day, and they only move about 25 cm a day. However, even when sleeping, sloths can control their body temperature, thereby reducing energy loss.
hippocampus
fourth place, hippocampus.
A small marine animal with a length of five to 30 cm, named after its curved head in the shape of a horse's head. Although the seahorse looks different from the fish we usually see, it is actually a fish, and it also breathes with its gills and swims with its fins. The hippocampus' swimming posture is very special. It stands, completely swings with high frequency of dorsal fins and pectoral fins, thus flowing slowly, with a speed of only 144 meters per hour. Although they are slow to move, they can efficiently capture fast-moving and hiding copepods, and they also know how to change the color of their bodies to disguise themselves and avoid predators. The seahors are very lazy. Most of the time they don’t like to act on their own. Instead, they wrap their curly tails around other seaweed or sea leek , or hang them upside down, drifting as the sea water drifts. Even if they have to take the initiative to swim and prey after they are hungry, they will climb onto other objects again after swimming for a distance.The hippocampus is the only animal on earth that gives birth to offspring from males. They are laid eggs into the parenting bag of male hippocampus, and then hatched by male hippocampus over 50 to 60 days. At the same time, this guy is also a precious Chinese medicinal material, which has the effects of warming the kidneys and strengthening yang, dispersing the nodules and reducing swelling.
snail
3rd place, snail.
Snails are the most common molluscs on land and have extremely high edible and medicinal value. Its crawls very slowly, and its speed is only 8.5 meters per hour. It has a carapace on its back, which is shaped like a small snail, with diverse colors. It has four tentacles on its head. It stretches out when it moves, and when it is frightened, its head and tail are retracted into the carapace together. It is said that snails have the most teeth in the world. Although their mouth is about the same size as the needle tip, they have more than 26,000 teeth. There is a small hole a little lower in the middle of the snail's small antennae, which is its mouth, with a jagged tongue inside, scientists call it toothed tongue . Snails usually live in relatively humid places and hide from the sun in the plants. They are omnivorous and partial eating habits coexist, mainly feed on the stems, leaves, flowers, fruits and roots of plants, and are one of the agricultural pests. Snails living in cold areas will hibernate and will also hibernate during the dry season of tropical life. When they are dormant, they secrete mucus to form a dry film, which is closed and delicious, and the whole body is hidden in the shell, and will come out and move when the temperature and humidity are appropriate. Hey, the key point is here, beauties should listen carefully, some scientists believe that eating more snails will have the effect of beauty.
Sea Cucumber
Second, Sea Cucumber.
Sea cucumber is an ancient undersea animal. As early as the Cambrian period 600 million years ago, sea cucumbers were residents of the seabed. Their bodies are very fat, have no eyes and no ears. Although they live in the sea, they cannot swim and can only crawl on the seabed by their body telescopic expansion and contraction, and their movement speed does not exceed four meters per hour. When sea cucumber is attacked, it will shoot its intestines and internal organs from its anus, attracting the attention of its enemies, thereby saving its life. The sea cucumber that lost its internal organs will not die. Three months later, a brand new internal organ will grow into his body. When the storage tactics of sea cucumber fail, unfortunately being attacked by enemies and being torn apart by the body, the sea cucumber can still survive as long as its head or anus is not eaten. As long as the growth environment is suitable, the torn sea cucumbers will grow a brand new body to continue living in the underwater world in about four to six months. This super strong regeneration and self-repair ability is the strongest king in the biological world.
Sea Star
First place,Sea Star.
, as the name suggests, is an marine life that looks like a five-pointed star. Starfish usually lives on the bottom of the sea, and adult starfish have almost no natural enemies. They usually have five arms, their bodies are flat, mostly star-shaped, and there are many calcium bone plates all over the body composed of connective tissue . Because starfish activities cannot be as flexible and fast as other fish. But as the saying goes, people are iron and food is steel. If you don’t eat a meal, you will be so hungry that you will be the most hungry. You have to find a way to fill your stomach. As a result, creatures that are not very fast-moving have become special care for starfish, such as shellfish, sea urchins, crabs and anemones . As a creature that can climb up to eight centimeters per minute, its speed determines that it can only adopt a roundabout strategy. It will slowly approach the other party at a speed that is difficult for prey to detect, or lie on the bottom of the sea. When the prey passes by them, they will wrap their tentacles around the prey, making it impossible for the prey to escape. Normal animals send food into their stomachs for digestion, but starfish directly spit out their stomachs, digest food outside, and eat directly in one step. In this way, even if the starfish encounters some prey that is bigger than it, it can still get a share of it. If you can't digest it, you'll just spit it out.
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