0 Manatee
Manatee
Manatees or sea cows are one of the adorable herbivorous marine animals that can be seen in Amazon, Caribbean seas and Indian ocean. Manatees used to live in shallow water and always found to be just floating over the water rather than moving.
Actually, manatees don’t have any predators and they won’t face any harm in their lifespan. Such conditions make manatees one of the slowest animals in the world. Most of the time they engaged with eating and resting which makes them heavier in size.
9 Gila Monster
Gila Monster
Gila monsters are one of the members of venomous lizards native to southwestern parts of the United States. They always found as hidden under the ground and others rarely get a chance to see them. The 22 inches sized Gila monster lizards have the capacity to consume meal up to one-third of their body. They are also very slow movers in nature.
Gila monsters store the fat within their body and rarely search for food. It lets them live longer time under the ground and provide with complete rest. This hidden nature keeps away the predators from them and thus it became one of the species that make least body movements.
8 Loris
Loris
CREDIT OF IMAGE : LIONEL MAURITSON ON WIKIMEDIA COMMONS
Loris is medium sized primates native to south-east Asia. They have human-like hands and follows twisted like movement very slowly. Loris can only make a maximum speed of 1.2 miles per hour.
The special lumbering helps them to keep away the predators, let them live without fear. Loris is also seemed to be a poisonous mammal, one bite will inject enough venom to harm you.
7 Sea Horse
Sea Horse
Sea Horses area special type of fish species found within the tropical waters around the world. Unlike other species of fishes, they are unable to make so much movement in water because of their mysterious body structure.
The fast movement of seas horses are limited to 0.5 miles per hour. The very slow movements of seas horses make them stay within a unique place during their lifetime.
6 Banana Slug
Banana Slug
The banana slug is a member of gastropod mollusc with no shell at all. The movement through muscular contraction makes them one of the slowest animal species. Most of all time slugs used to lay under the ground for feeding and laying eggs. In such a way slugs completely put away movement from one place to another.
Slugs can only achieve faster movement of 0.2 miles per hour. They also have the capacity to live underground for several years in a moist condition.
5 Koala Bear
slowest animals in the world
Koala bear comes under a special sub category of mammals called marsupial. It is not at all a member of bears, but it looks like bears native to Australia. The strong limbs and claws of koala bear help them to climb on trees in no time and eat leaves of trees. Kola bears are one of slowest animals because of their poor at eye sight, they spend most of the time in trees.
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