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Two-toed Sloth http://www.bristolzoo.org.uk/learning/animals/mammals/two‐toed‐sloth


A.J. Haverkamp

The Life of a Two-toed Sloth.

Sloths
are
magnificent
creatures,
 which
mean
that
they
eat
plants
and
 trees.

They
also
adapt
to
their
slow

but
did
you
know
that
they
were
a
 animals.
They
eat
twigs,
leaves,
fruit,
 movements,
which
helps
them
with

relative
of
the
Giant
anteater?

Yes,
 and
small
prey
that
they
can
catch.

 their
vegetarian
diet.

They
also
adapt

the
two‐toed
sloth
is
also
closely
 These
strange
creatures
do
not
drink
 to
their
environment
by
growing
fur

related
to
the
Three‐toed
sloth,
and
 but
get
their
water
from
eating
leaves
 from
their
stomach
to
their
back
to

the
now
extinct
ground
sloth.

The
 and
licking
dewdrops.
They
are
 allow
the
rain
to
drip
off
of
them.


originate
from
Brazil,
Colombia,
 nocturnal,
which
means
that
they
 The
most
interesting
adaptation
that

Ecuador,
French
Guiana,
Guyana,
 sleep
during
the
day
and
eat
at
night,
 they
have
is
they
have
nine
vertebra,

Peru,
Suriname,
and
Venezuela.

 but
the
most
strange
thing
about
 instead
of
seven
like
most
mammals.


These
creatures
love
the
tropical
 these
mammals
are
that
they
spend
 This
helps
it
to
turn
its
head
270

rainforest,
unfortunately
they
can
 most
of
their
lives
hanging
upside
 degrees,
and
can
give
them
the
gift
to

only
survive
in
the
rainforest
that
 down
from
the
canopy
of
the
forest.

 turn
its
head
right
side
up
while
its

have
stable
temperatures
because
 They
usually
avoid
coming
down
out
 hanging
upside
down.

sloths
body
temperature
rises
and
 of
the
trees
in
fear
of
their
predators,

falls
with
their
environment.

If
the
 because
sloths
are
extremely
slow. Kingdom:

Animalia
temperature
was
to
fall
or
rise
fast
it
 
 Sloths
adapt
to
their
life
and
 Phylum:

Chordata
could
put
the
sloth
in
danger.

 environment
in
elegant
ways.

They
 Class:

Mammalia
adapt
to
hanging
upside
down
by
 Order:

Pilosa

 These
animals
lifestyle
consists
 using
long
curved
claws
that
are

pretty
much
of
just
eating,
sleeping,
 Suborder:

Folivora
easily
hooked
around
the
branches
of
 Family:

Megalonychidae
and
breeding.

They
are
omnivores,

Genus:

Choloepus

ENDANGERED:

 These
magnificent
animals
are
threatened
by
loss
of
their
habitat,
from
the

cutting
down
of
trees.

There
is
insufficient
knowledge
concerning
them
as

threatened
so
they
are
listed
under
the
IUCN.

Because
they
are
so
slow
in

moving
they
are
unable
to
escape
and
are
are
often
killed
in
logging
operations