• Question: how many hours a day does a sloth sleep?

    Asked by livgn1029 to Jo, Kevin, Louise, Valeria on 20 Jun 2012.
    • Photo: Kevin Mahon

      Kevin Mahon answered on 20 Jun 2012:

      We used to thinki it was around 18 hours – but recent work done by german scientists have re-evaluated this to around 10 hours a day (still a lot!)

    • Photo: Joanna Cruden

      Joanna Cruden answered on 22 Jun 2012:

      Oh I did not know it has been re-evaluated,maybe not as sleepy as I had thought then!

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