For more than 30 days, people in a northern Montenegro village have been lying down in the streets. It's part of their annual 'Laziest Citizen' contest that was created 12 years ago to mock the theory that Montenegrins are among the laziest humans on the planet. But maybe emulating the behavior of a sloth isn't as bad as we think. In contrast to our fast-paced, high-stress human lives, there are plenty of animals that lead a much slower existence and still manage to survive and thrive. 'Today, humans depend on their intelligence and technology for survival,' Ron Magill, communications director at Zoo Miami tells Yahoo Life. 'Animals have much greater instincts and finely tuned senses that they depend on that have become dulled in humans.' But you don't have to compete in a 'Laziest Citizen' contest to benefit from what experts say are the potential perks of slowing down. Here are four lessons we can learn from our lazy animal friends.
who oversaw the study, tells Yahoo Life."Their goal in food-limited environments is to be energy efficient, which means to take the lowest-cost path, forage as efficiently as possible and conserve as much energy as possible."
The study also found that bears move at a slower pace than researchers expected. “Most animals do move at the most efficient speed to minimize cost per unit time and distance. Just watch humans walking, and you’ll notice that most of us walk at a relatively narrow range of speeds,” explains Robbins. “We found that grizzly bears don’t move as fast as they should based on that assumption.”
Robbins says one of the main reasons bears are just fine taking their time is because these powerful predators don’t have to worry about being visibly exposed like prey animals do. When asked if he believes humans also possess this innate urge to avoid exertion, Robbins says, “Certainly to some extent. Evolutionarily, there have not been hamburgers, fries, candy bars, chips, available 24 hours a day within a few hundred yards.
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