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Three-toed Sloths stats and facts◾Length: 45 and 50 cm long (18 - 20")
◾Weight: 3.5 - 4.5 kg (7.7 - 10 lb)
◾Tail length: 7cm
◾Habitat: Rainforests
◾Lifespan: 30 - 40 years
◾Speed: 13 feet per minute for the three-toed sloth
◾Sleep: 10 hours per day
◾Diet: Sloths are omnivores eating mainly tree leaves
The three-toed sloth has three toes on the front feet and five on the hind feet. It is about the size of a house cat, with a dense, furry coat and yellowish face
fact: Sloths are nocturnal and sleep curled up with their head placed between the arms and the feet drawn close together. This disguises them as part of a tree so that its enemies like the jaguar do not see them.
fact: Although studies have shown that brown-throated sloths eat up to 96 varieties of leaves, each individual will specialize in only 5 or 6 different tree species
Some sloths stay in the same tree for years. Their huge hooked claws and long arms allow them to spend most of their time hanging upside-down from trees. Since they have a slow metabolism, they need very little food. They feed on fruit, leaves, buds, and young twigs. Sloths also sleep upside-down for up to 18 hours at a time. Mothers also give birth to babies upside-down. Babies cling to their mothers until they are able to take care of themselves.
Sloths are medium-sized mammals belonging to the families Megalonychidae (two-toed sloth) and Bradypodidae (three-toed sloth), classified into six species
Sloths are clumsy on land but are very good swimmers. On numerous occasions the Three-Toed Sloth has been known to drop directly from their tree into the water.
Sloths are folivores, herbivores that specialize in eating leaves. Leaves, their primary food source, are not very nutritious, so they have large, slow acting stomachs with multiple compartments with symbiotic bacteria to break down leaves.
Sloths aren’t as sleepy as once thought—recent studies by Dr. Rattenborg at the Max Planck Institute in Germany indicate they sleep under 10 hours a day.
