When you walk into Survival of the Slowest, you enter the world of counterintuitive adaptations, where your preconceptions about adaptation and survival may be challenged, where we learn that there is no overall ‘best’ in the real world, as environments change and pressures vary, one creature’s best is another’s weakness. Exploring this exhibit, students will be introduced to adaptation, energetics, costs and trade-offs, and how they all come together in seemingly perplexing ways in the star of the exhibit, the Sloth.