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Lucy Cooke tells us about sloths

In the video Lucy Cooke tells us about the behavior of a sloth, it is the slowest mammal in
the world, it has a strange biology, a fake smile and the need to hug, it reaches a speed of 5
meters per minute with the wind in its favor, it moves more fast in the water, it is adapted
to work against gravity and they cannot stand straight, the sloth has very poor eyesight and
inattention when listening.
The main food of a sloth are the leaves, they have a stamagus that is divided into four parts,
they are slow digestion and it can take 1 month to process a single leaf, they are of low
metabolism and it is the key to living on extinction.

Sloths have existed on this planet for 40 million years

The sloth is divided into 2 types and they are:


Bradypus three-toed and two-toed sloths
Elephants

they are a family of placental mammals of the order Proboscidea. They were formerly
classified, along with other thick-skinned mammals
Elephants are the largest land animals that exist today.
The gestation period is twenty-two months, the longest in any land animal.
Birth weight is usually 118 kg. They normally live from fifty to seventy years, but ancient
records document maximum ages of eighty-two years
Nowadays there are three species and several subspecies. Among the extinct genera of this
family are the mammoths

Today's elephants are classified into two different genera, Loxodonta (African elephants)
and Elephas (Asian elephants), belonging to two different tribes. Classically two species
were recognized, one in each genus, but currently there is a debate among scientists about
whether the two African subspecies are actually two different species, in which case we
would be talking about three species of elephants in total. The following species and
subspecies are recognized

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