10 animals slowest in the natural world

In order to survive in the harsh natural world, every animal possesses some special characteristics such as strong venom, extraordinary health . Besides the animals possessing speed Extremely fast running to flee enemies or hunt, there are also very slow species. So which species are they and how do they survive?

10. Manatees

Manatee is a herbivore, often living in shallow water and is one of the slowest animals in the world. They have a body weight of up to half a ton and often float freely on the water but rarely move on their own. Manatees take up to 8 hours a day to eat.

Manatees are distributed mainly in the Caribbean, South Pacific and Indian Ocean.

9. Gila monster

Gila monsters are venomous lizards, often living on the ground so few people have the opportunity to see them in the wild. This animal can consume a meal weighing one third of its body. After storing enough fat in the body, the monster Gila will stay underground to evade predators.

8. Coolie

The loris are primates with human-like hands and origins in Southeast Asia. When mature, the movement speed of loris only reaches about 2 km / h. Although he has a gentle appearance, moves slowly but compensates for loris as venomous species. Their bite can be harmful to humans.

7. Seahorses

Seahorses are special fish because they cannot create water movements to move, their maximum speed is only 0.8 km / h. Seahorses are distributed in tropical waters around the world.

1. Close up of the process of female seahorses sending eggs by pregnant males

6. Banana slugs

Banana slugs are a mollusk, moving by contracting the body at a rate of about 0.32 km / h. Sometimes thanks to the movement of seawater, banana slugs can move a long distance. Much of the life of banana slugs takes to eat and lay eggs.

1. It turns out a meal of banana slugs is like this

5. Koala Bear

Koala bears are a pocket animal, eating plants (mostly eucalyptus leaves) and rarely drink water. They live in Australia. Koala bears are not very flexible (only from 63cm to 88cm long, weigh about 13kg), eyes are very poor. Koala bears sleep about 10 hours a day and is really slow.

4. Giant tortoise

This is the largest vertebrate animal in the world. This turtle moves very slowly because it has thick legs, heavy crust and a heavy weight, which can reach 350kg.

Giant turtles live mainly in the Seychelles and Galapagos Islands.

3. Garden slugs

Garden slugs (or garden snails, soil slugs) are a terrestrial mollusk. The movement speed of this snail is only a few meters an hour.

2. Starfish

Around the world, there are 2000 different starfish species. Normal starfish move very slowly at a rate of only about 0.032 km / h but sometimes thanks to the flow of ocean currents they can travel a long distance.

1. Lazy 3 fingers

This is the world's slowest animal, the record rate that a sloth can reach is 0.001 km / h. 3-finger sloth originates from the Americas. Much of the life of 3-fingered sloth is on the branches of the tropical rainforest.