Assertion: sloth | /r/CapableOf | digest food
Facets:
value: because of their leafy diet
type: CAUSE
value: to digest a meal
type: PURPOSE
value: very slowly
type: MANNER
value: in nutritional value
type: OTHER
value: like everything
type: OTHER
value: a month
type: TEMPORAL
value: more slowly than they eat
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: Sloths digest food even more slowly than they eat it.
text: It takes so long for a sloth to digest the food it eats (and to eat enough to get the nutrients that it needs) that it only has to go to the bathroom about once a week!
text: Sloths digest their food slow as they move.
text: Because sloths have a very low metabolic rate (only 40–45 percent of the expected rate for their size), they are able to eat foods that are easy to find but low in nutrients.
text: What first may appear to be a lazy lifestyle is actually a successful evolutionary adaptation: sloths are morphologically and physiologically specialized to live in the high canopy and consume foods low in nutritional value that many other mammals would not be able to thrive on.
text: It can take up to 50 days for a sloth to digest its food.
text: Like everything else, sloths digest food slowly - over a month to digest a meal.
text: It takes a long time for a sloth to digest the food that is eaten, which means a sloth has to eat a lot in order to get the slow trickle of vitamins and minerals that they need.
text: Fun fact #2: Because of their leafy diet, sloths digest their food very slowly.