Friday, March 4, 2011

Sloth

Here are some pictures of a two toed sloth.
there is a picture of a baby sloth, and mother baby sloth and two pictures of adult sloths.





A sloth lives in the understory layer and is built to hang upside down for it's whole life.
A sloth has thick brown fur and moves so slowly that some insects live and breed in its fur.Sometimes a sloth looks green and can be green(fur) but mostly brown.
Sloths eat a wide varity of leaves from trees.
It spends it's time eating, sleeping and moving accross branches with the toilet time once a week.
The toilet time is when the sloth moves down the trees to the floor and making a hole with it's tail to do his business in then coveres it up and slowly moves it's way up to the tops of the trees, his home. This process uses most of the sloths energy.
Sloths are most of the time protected when they go for their 18 hours sleeps because of its high habitat it is mostly safe apart from it's most dreaded predator the Harpy Eagle. It is able to crab and take the Sloth away.

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