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Why are sloths so slow? - Kenny Coogan

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Sloths spend most of their time eating, resting, or sleeping; in fact, they descend from their treetops canopies just once a week, for a bathroom break. How are these creatures so low energy? Kenny Coogan describes the physical and behavioral adaptations that allow sloths to be so slow.

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Could you give another example that animal body acts like a component of an ecosystem?

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Animal bodies can be ecosystems to things like bugs, bacteria, viruses, and many microorganisms. Many animals with heavy fur coats like dogs or cats can hold ecosystems for bugs like fleas. Fleas tend to stay on an animals body to help them populate and create a home for them.


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Sure. Generally, the body of an animal could be considered an ecosystem, since it is home to numerous microorganisms in which some depends on the host's body and some depend on the fellow microorganisms. If we take fish as an example, the algae developed on their body can be a life source for smaller fishes.