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SLOTH FACTS


1. Sloths are extremely slow-moving mammals. Actually they are the world’s slowest mammal, so sedentary that algae grow on its furry coat.

2. Their hair is grayish brown but, at times they look grey-green in color because of the tiny camouflaging algae that grows all over their coats.

3. Sloths are omnivores. They may eat insects, small reptiles, and birds, but their most common food consists mostly of buds, tender shoots, and leaves.

4. Altogether, sloths’ bodies usually are anywhere between 50 and 60 cm long. They also have stubby tails, usually 6“7 cm long. These guys weight can be 8.75 pounds.

5. The average amount of years a sloth lives is 20 years. Although there have been 40 year old sloths.

6. Most people used to think that sloths slept 18 hours a day. But a recent study indicated that sloths sleep just under 10 hours a day.

7. They go to the ground to urinate and defecate about once a week, digging a hole and covering it afterwards. They go to the same spot each time and are vulnerable to predation while doing so.

8. Mothers also give birth to their babies upside down. Infant sloths normally cling to their mother’s fur.

9. Females normally bear one baby every year. But sometimes sloths’ low level of movement actually keeps females from finding males for longer than one year. They also mate while hanging.

10. Sloths have an extra neck vertebra that allows them to turn their heads 270 degrees.

11. Thousands of years ago, very large sloths lived on the ground in North America. Their fossils tell us some were as large as elephants, had claws and ate leaves much like present-day sloths.

12. Sloths are excellent swimmers. They sometimes will drop from a tree limb into water and use their long arms to swim with broad strokes.

13. There are six different species but most are identified as two or three toed sloths.

14. Sloths are solitary animals and only come together to mate.

15. Sloths don’t get obese—they appear to store extra fat on the pads of their feet.

16. The Sloth is well known for its title as “slowest animal on Earth”.

17. Dead sloths may retain their grip and remain suspended from a branch.

18. If sloths move too fast, either by accident or on purpose then can create a rift in time and space. This rift will only allow the 6 species of sloths to pass through due to their genetic make-up, anything else trying to pass through will be torn apart atom by atom. Many theorys explain this other demension as a sloth paradise, filled with Trees, soft ground and many mates to get their funk on for 42 hours.

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