The Slowest Animal In The World. It can survive underground for several years in moist well-ventilated soil. An interesting fact about this animal is that it has one mate for life.
The slimy slithery animal leaves behind a wet trail along its path and makes us squirm. When theyre up in their favored canopy these rainforest animals are able to pick up their speed to around a. Theres not a lot of agreement about which animal is the absolute slowest.
The Three-toed Sloth is the worlds slowest mammal.
Not much food means not much energy and this is what keeps sloths moving slowly enough to grow algae on their fur. They have interesting behaviors and mechanisms in their bodies that limit their speed. Its top speed or his infamous record of slow-paced movement is 024 km per hour or 015 miles per hour. The slowest of all seahorses is the dwarf seahorse Hippocampus zosterae whose maximum speed of 15 m 5 ft per hour makes it the slowest fish in the world.