Two Toed Sloths Research Paper

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Have you ever wondered about sloths, or how they live or how they survive and have special adaptations that the wild and the zoo give them? Well if you haven’t, then you haven’t been wondering hard enough. Sloths are amazing mammals, the way they live in the wild is amazing to watch, and just viewing them on the internet is astonishing, but to really know about these wonderful mammals, read these full on packed articles Sloths Sloths are tropical mammals (warm blooded animals) that live in South and Central America. There are two types of sloths. One of the two types is the two-toed sloth. The two-toed sloth is slightly bigger than the three-toed sloth, although they do share many of the same features. Their size can be from the size of a medium sized dog and can also be around 58 to 68 cm long and would usually weigh around 8 kg. Sloths use their long claws to hang on branches while the sloths eat the leaves that the other animals can't quite reach. But unfortunately for the awesome amazing sloth, their 8-10cm long claws (really really long claws) make walking on the ground very difficult, so that is usually why the sloths spend most of their time in trees. Habitat Though they used to live in North America, today you can only find them in the wild in and around Central and South American rain forests. Sloths do prefer sleeping while curled…show more content…
Their hands and feet are used quite often to move around and they find hanging from branches a lot easier. Although they do sit on top of branches, the sloths would prefer to hang, even when they eat they hang upside down or sleep, upside down and even while giving birth they will hang upside down. Sloths are very slow but if they are being hunted by their predators (jaguar, harpy eagle and humans) sloths can move at a very high speed but that wastes almost all their energy and then they have to rest some more. Sloths are very territorial and
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