Spanish Name: Oso Peresoso

Size:  They grow to a size of around 2 feet, or the size of a small dog.

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

For More information see:
 

• Report written by Phoebe
• Report written by Gianlucca

 Predators: Jaguars, Ocelots, Harpy Eagles, and  Humans. 

 Adaptations: 

• They adapt living upside down all the time. They  also adapt to the jungle climate. 
• They learn to swim fast when they came down from the tree tops. 
• They get used eating soft foods because their teeth are really weak. 
• Their claws grow longer and sharper over time so that they can hold on to branches and defend themselves from predators

• The Sloths have teeth in their cheeks. They use them to eat upside down. 
• Sloths live in South America live in the canopy. 
• Sloths give birth to only one baby per year. 
• Sloths are nocturnal animals, meaning they are awake at night time and sleep during the daylight. They sleep 15-18 hours a day.
•  They eat, sleep, mate, and give birth upside down.
• When the sloths come down from the canopy, which is not very often, they crawl. 
• They are also quite good swimmers when they come down, they swim faster then they move in the treetops.
• Sloths are the slowest mammals on earth.
• The sloths ancestors where the Giant Ground Sloths. An animal that existed before the first Ice Age
  

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

 Research by: Luis Alberto, Dan and  Anthony .

 For more information on the sloth:

• Report Written by Phoebe J.