Species from the Peruvian Jungle

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English  Name: Sloth
Scientific Name: Choloepus didactylus (two-toed) or Bradypus tridactylus (three-toed sloth and others).

Spanish Name: Peresoso

Size: 2 feet long.

Life span: Sloths may live 10-20 years in the wild.

Diet: They eat a vegeterian diet, they eat fruits and leaves.
 

Predators: Jaguars, Ocelots, Harpy Eagles and Humans.
 

Adaptations: They adapt to living upside down all the time. They can also adapt to the jungle climate. They learn to swim fast. They are used to eat soft things because their teeths are really weak.
 

Interesting Facts: The Sloths have teeth in their cheeks they use them to eat upside down. They have bugs living on its fur because it is to slow. Sloths live in south america. The sloths can have one baby at a time. They are problably the slower mammals. The Sloths are nocturnal animals, they sleep 15-18 hours a day upside down. They do everything upside down they can even mate their babies upside down. When they travel through ground they crawl. They are good swimmers, they  swim faster than they move.
 
 
 

 Bibliography: "sloth." the marshall cavendish international wild life encyclopedia. 1994 ed. Google Search Engine, Google Images.
 

 Research by: Luis Alberto Wu, Dan Tenorio and Anthony Lozano.

 

Google Images: Sloth