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title: "Which one is the slowest moving land animal ?"  
description: "Which one is the slowest moving land animal ?"  
author: "Sylvester Balchunas"  
published: 2017-11-21  
canonical: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/31058/which-one-is-the-slowest-moving-land-animal  
category: "animal life"  
tags: ["animal behavior"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# Which one is the slowest moving land animal ?

Which one is the slowest moving [land animal](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/35087/which-animal-has-the-largest-eye-of-any-land-animal) ?

## Answers

### Answer by Vishal Kesarwani

**Sloths** are one of the most slowly moving **land animals** in the whole world. This animal is so slow that it has been named because of his slow speed, as the meaning of sloth is laziness or sluggishness.

![Which one is the slowest moving land animal ?](https://answers.mindstick.com/questionanswer/d881bc65-69d9-4d72-9e4d-fedea52a8f08/images/0525405a-fc13-4271-a9b2-4fb0606750a9.png)\

You could be **astonished** to know that the maximum speed of sloth is 2 meter per minute. Yes, you heard it right 2 meter per minute which means **0.12 km/h, or 0.07 miles**. One more fact, sloths generally when it’s required otherwise they don’t put an effort to move from a particular place. **Seriously so low and lazy!** a short video the slowest land animal in the word.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/aT2OfTbL9Wc


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