The Busy Life of the Sloth | BBC Earth

You can watch the higher quality version here For more brilliant natural history shows, exclusive to YouTube, head over to our brand-new channel Earth Unplugged! In this amusing and entertaining clip from the BBC’s Life of Mammals, David Attenborough looks at the life of a sloth. The sloth has adapted to the lack of nutrition in its diet of leaves by hanging around not doing very much at all. We even get to see one moving at high speed! Watch more high quality videos on the BBC Earth YouTube channel here: and visit for all the latest natural history exclusives and fantastic new wildlife videos. This is a commercial channel from BBC Studios. Service & Feedback