Habitat:
Canopy layer of Amazon Rainforest. Central America, Honduras, Argentina,
Paraguay, and Brazil.
Diet:
Fruits, leaves, buds. The three-toed sloth loves the leaves of the
Cecropia tree.
Enemies:
Cats (jaguar,ocelot), snakes (anaconda), and Harpy Eagles.
Facts:
There are five species of sloths. Hoffman's two-toed sloth, Linne's
two-toed sloth, Brown-throated three-toed sloth, Pale-throated three-toed
sloth, and the Maned Sloth (three-toed).
The Maned sloth is an endangered species. All sloths face the threat of loss
of habit.
All sloths have three toes. One genus of sloths has three fingers and the
other genus has two fingers. The ones with three fingers are called three-
toed sloths and the ones with two fingers are called two-toed sloths (that's
just the way it is).
Sloths have an image of laziness and inactivity.
They can fall asleep upside down.
The sloth goes to the bathroom about once a week and he climbs to the ground to
do so. It takes them about an hour to get to the ground.
They can live about 12 years in the wild, and much longer in captivity.
It's hard for the sloth to walk on the ground because of the shape of their toe
s and fingers.
The sloth is one of the slowest animals. It travels about 13 feet in one hour.
They have moths and nettles in their coat. Blue and green algae also grow on it
s coat. The algae helps camouflage the sloth in the trees.
Sloths have one young. Their babies are the size of a thumb and weigh 10-14 oun
ces. The mother alone brings up the baby.
A sloths tail is only 1-3 inches in length.
Their main form of protection is camouflage.
The sloth always fights its predators.
They are pretty good swimmers.
We have found sloth fossils dating back to the Pleistocene era.
Sometimes after they die, they still are found hanging in a tree or clinging to
a tree branch.
They are mostly nocturnal and solitary.
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