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Sloths
Go ahead and take plenty of time here in this category. The slow-moving sloth is only found in Central and South America and is comprised of the families Megalonychidae, two-toed sloths, and Bradypodidae, three-toed sloth, of the order Pilosa. Even with only four living species, there is plenty of information to be found in this category.
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Is a two toed sloth a monotreme a marsupial or a placental mammal?
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the two toed sloths special features are its long arms, two sharp, long claws, powerful front legs, extremely weak hind legs.
What does a baby sloth look like?
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a baby sloth look like a baby bear with long claws and can crawl all the way home law lalala
How does green algae help the sloth to survive?
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the insects help the sloth to clean itself an
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What is the world's slowest animal?
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well as you probaly know that the seepamonopamwam is extremely slow but the 2 lapizid spider beats it but that's not slowest is the beengrastos faces fobaboo with a maxamam speed of 0.001
How have sloths adapted to living in the rain forest?
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sloths adapted to the tropical rain forest because green algae grows on their fur which camouflages them.
Is the sloth endangerd?
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No a sloth is not poisonous
Yes, to humans their saliva is toxic.
Also their energy level is contagious.
Do sloths eat bananas?
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no sloths eat Bananas. Sloths eat leaves, flower petals and other plant products. They are essentially herbivores. They are the perfect design presented so far by evolution to conserve energy to such an extreme that a simple feat like closing the eyelids takes a long time to be affected. So do their the most sluggish movement along the tree branch. They even give birth on trees.
They eat small insects, leaves and lots of vegetation and bugs. the three toed only eats off a certain tree -all the fruit trees and leaves and eats nothing else.the two toed sloths eat all the other above
How much is a pet sloth?
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Pet sloths are anywhere from 1,000 to 3,000. But you need extra money because you will need an exotic animal permit, exotic animalinsurance, food for the sloth, and branches for it to climb on. So, they are veryexpensive.
Do some 3 toed sloths really have moss growing on them?
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Yes some of them do. The moss helps the sloth to blend into its surroundings better.
What is a marsupial sloth?
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No they are not primates even though they might look like it and if you think about it, they do kinda sound like it. But they do not have aposeable thumbs. Thus, sloths are not primates and are not related to monkeys either...
What are the features of sloth?
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Sloths are medium-sized mammals that live in Central and South America belonging to the families Megalonychidae and Bradypodidae, part of the order Pilosa. Most scientists call these two families the Folivora suborder, while some call it Phyllophaga.
Sloths are omnivores. They may eat insects, small lizards and carrion, but their diet consists mostly of buds, tender shoots, and leaves.
Sloths have made extraordinary adaptations to an arboreal browsing lifestyle. Leaves, their main food source, provide very little energy or nutrition and do not digest easily: sloths have very large, specialized, slow-acting stomachs with multiple compartments in which symbiotic bacteria break down the tough leaves.
As much as two-thirds of a well-fed sloth's body-weight consists of the contents of its stomach, and the digestive process can take as long as a month or more to complete. Even so, leaves provide little energy, and sloths deal with this by a range of economy measures: they have very low metabolic rates (less than half of that expected for a creature of their size), and maintain low body temperatures when active (30 to 34 degrees Celsius or 86 to 93 degrees Fahrenheit), and still lower temperatures when resting. Sloths mainly live in Cecropia trees.
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Do a sloth hibernate?
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xxxxxx Acodrding to my reaserch sloths do not hibranate xxxxxxx
Why does a sloth bear pucker lips?
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They have that adaption so they can invade termite colonies and suck the termites up.
Is it illegal to own a pet sloth in Canada?
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Know it's not illegal to own a pet squirrel in Canada, but some wild squirrels can have rabies or other diseases.
Are sloths mammals?
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yes
Yes. A sloth is a mammal. It has fur and it feeds its young on mothers' milk.
What kind of trees do sloths eat?
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They eat majic beans from the Koolaha tree deep in the rainforest Also fermented fruit on the jungle floor and a mixture of nuts and fruits and the occasional small child but this has never been proven. Signed dr of ornatholalogy sir dr X
Are sloths related to the monkeys?
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Sloths are not closely related to primates. They are most closely related to anteaters, both being classified in the order Pilosa. That is part of the superorder Xenarthra, which includes armadillos.
No , sloths are mammals related to anteaters .
Do two-toed sloths live in the understory?
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No, in fact that two toed sloth or any other sloth lives in the canopy. If the slothes lived in the emergent layer, their enimies would find them an kill them. The understory is where all the jaguars live and that is also a meat eater and a enemy to the sloth. The forest floor is not a good idea because slothes eat fruit and leaves. They do not eat plants out of the ground.
Why are humans not sloths?
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a sloth is slow because they have little energy and does not eat or drink as much as outher animals
What is a three toed sloths prey?
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Three Toed Sloths Are Folivores; They Mainly Eat Leaves. Three Toed Sloths Will Also Eat Fruit, Bamboo, Flowers And Occasionally Insects.
bugs and leaves just like 2 toed sloths eat
