About the sluggish person say that he does everything as a turtle, comparing it to a slow animal. The turtle indeed does everything slowly. But there are also even more sluggish animals which the snail, a koala and an idler treat.
As it turned out, in the world the idler not only on the rate of the movement, but also on a way of life is recognized as the most sluggish small animal that he emphasizes its name.
More haste less speed?
Idlers carry out all the life on a tree in hover. Having chosen a tree, the small animal gives headfirst from one of its branches. In such state the animals are awake, sleep and eat. The idler leaves the tree only when he needs to get over on another that happens extremely seldom. Most often they just tear off paws from a branch and fall down, having been curtailed a lump.
In somnolence the small animals spend 15 hours a day therefore they get into twilight thickets and the jungle. The idler with a speed of 2 meters per minute moves. Therefore it is very heavy to escape when the animal is threatened by danger. Most often the idler does not even try to leave from it. Because of an infantile way of life the small animal has no self-preservation instinct at all. Wood leaves which feed an idler are digested in his stomach all month. From here such sluggish activity and lack of energy.
Because of almost motionless way of life in hair of a small animal seaweed which do an idler color green are got. It helps it to be imperceptible among the deciduous woods. And butterflies even manage to postpone in wool of animal egg.
Idler cubs completely depend the first several months on mother as hang on her and eat maternal milk. If the cub suddenly came off and fell down, then she even will not notice it. That at all did not forget about him, the newborn small animal should let out cries. All day the idler sleeps, but with nightfall he wakens and begins to get over slowly from a branch on a branch in search of food and water. The tenacity allows an animal to travel around trees of the jungle freely. Sluggishness of movement developed a habit to be content with small at an animal. Slow crawling on the ground of an idler in something is similar to turtle steps. The small animal widely places the paws when walking to move all weight of body weight. At the same time he moves extremities with circular motions, leaning on elbow joints.
Rating of speedIn comparison with an idler turtle just sprinter! For example, the leathery turtle on the land can gather speed to 40 km/h, sea turtles move also that quicker, however, only in water. The slowest of turtles – giant. This powerful animal the lineal descendant of ancient inhabitants of the planet, because of a huge and massive armor such turtles cannot just gather speed more than 0.35 km/h.
It is not absolutely correct to compete in speed to a snail and an idler or a turtle, it is essentially different types from in different ways movement. However, it is known that for an hour the snail passes up to 6 cm.
Sluggish people consider also koalas. Bear marsupials really do not differ in vital activity or rough temper, they will see off in a dream till 18 o'clock, but everything changes with nightfall when the animal moves off in searches of food. Koalas should gather more or less considerable speed only in case they are threatened by danger or it is necessary to protect a cub, all rest of the time in view of consumption of low-power food the bears are lazy and slow.