Some people sometimes thought of what animal is the laziest. If you wish to learn it, get acquainted with Bradypodidae. In translation from Greek into Russian this word means "medlennonogiya", and in a different way he is called an idler.
Big often the life the idler is in hibernation. And this animal sleeps, having hooked by all the paws for a tree branch, a stomach up.
His way of life is continuous hanging on branches.
To whom the idler is similar
This animal the look is most of all similar to a primacy because has the shaggy head, long wool and tenacious paws. Actually the idler treats nepolnozuby mammals of group of lenivtsevy. This animal does not watch the hygiene. In this regard, in its wool lays eggs and the butterfly who carries the name a pyralid removes posterity. At other animals wool grows from a back to a stomach. At it on the contrary. Because of it the idler remains dry during tropical heavy rains because rain water with ease rolls down from his shaggy body. At this mammal very long neck. With its help it gets to itself(himself) livelihood and at the same time does not do excess movements. Not to go down on the earth at depletion of a bladder and digestive tract, it is capable several days is nothing. In an integument of an idler there live various seaweed. They give to its wool a green look.
Notice that this animal is the slowest of all others. Therefore the fauna and flora was formed on his skin.
Green coloring of wool helps it to disappear in branches of trees from sharp-sighted toothy predators. During sleep this mammal can unexpectedly fall down the earth as if the ripened fruit. However he is not traumatized because its bodies of activity are not about an abdominal cavity, and almost adjoin to a back. If this animal falls to the ground, it begins to move by means of claws, grabbing something. Independently the idler moves very slowly. He has enough enemies - it is snakes, jaguars and many other predators. If he was not able to hide, long ago would be eaten by these animals.
Where this animal livesYou can meet an idler in a northwest part of Brazil and in the territory of Peru. Still these mammals live in Nicaragua, in Honduras, Uruguay, Argentina and many other exotic countries. To meet an idler in the territory of the Amazonian forests is a commonplace. Therefore tourists in these countries do not move in night-time some, and invite with themselves guides. They help to avoid unexpected collision with an idler as know where most often they live. Now these lazy mammals are included in the Red List.