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.
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