*Native American animals, Loris, are known to have very slow movements. They move only about 38 meters long and spend a lot of time to sleep. This late mammal makes this animal a negative reputation as a lazy animal. But is this mammal really a lazy animal? Or is there any other reason behind his very slow movements and long sleeping habits?
Apparently, the assumption that the loris is a lazy animal is completely untrue. Although he can only move as far as 38 meters in one day, but that does not mean the animal is not moving. This cute animal keeps on moving, it's just that its slow but sure movement makes it impossible to move too far. This one mammal is a herbivorous animal that only consumes leaves, petals, and branches throughout its life without consuming fat, carbohydrates, or protein at all. This leaves him with little energy to move. In addition, as animals with low body temperature levels, slow lorises have a low metabolic rate.*
*To digest food, this animal takes about 50 days. This low metabolic rate makes it less energy to use.
As an animal that tries to survive in the wild, the loris has to learn to regulate its energy expenditure so that it can still survive with such a low metabolic rate. Adjustments made by these animals is to move slowly and sleep long to save energy. This animal also regulates its posture to bend so that it does not so provoke the presence of predators of its predators.
Kukang spends his entire life on a tree, where he can easily get food and hide from predators without having to spend much energy. This form of loris's adjustment even makes it look like a lazy animal, but is actually very ingenious. In fact, lemurs are listed as animals that have existed on earth for nearly 64 million years. This means that the slack livelihood strategy is quite successful.
But now the loris faces a new threat. No longer predators, the latest challenge faced by the lemur is now the man who continues to cut down the forests. Reduced trees where the lemurs can live and hide from predators make the loris species diminish over time. Humans must have started learning to live side by side with nature instead of destroying it. If not, then the lemurs and various other living things will be the victims.*
yes , great read! sad what disregard we show other living creatures
one day us humans as a collective will wake to the true nature of life.
That right