about the sloths

Sloths are brown or grey in colour and during the wet season are often covered in a blue/green algae. They are quite well camouflaged which is a helpful defence for something so slow. Their sharp claws are also a form of defence. Sloths spend most of their time upside down. They eat, sleep, mate and give birth upside down. When they do go on the ground, either to switch trees or to defecate (usually once a week), they crawl or pull themselves along, as although they can stand, they cannot walk very well. However, they are very good swimmers. They sleep around 15 hours per day and may take up to a month to digest a meal.
There are two types of sloths - two-toed and three-toed. There are several differences between them, but since this is not a scientific description of them I won't go into it !
They usually live around 10-20 years in their native habitat in trees in the rain forests of Central and South America. In captivity they may live up to 30 or 40 years. Female sloths produce one baby a year, and the newborn is about 25cm long and 350g in weight. It will stay with it's mother for about 5 weeks.
Sloths have a diet consisting of leaves, young shoots and buds. They do not need to drink because they get all the water they require from the leaves.
They grow to a size of around 2 feet, or the size of a small dog. The males are shy and tend to be solitary, while females may gather in groups.
Sloths fall prey to people, jaguars, large snakes, harpy eagles and other birds The sloth is the slowest mammal on earth and its ancestors were the Giant Ground Sloth, an animal that existed before the last ice age and grew to the size of a modern elephant.

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