1.
Many sloth's have green algae covering their fur.
There slow movements allow for many creatures to set up housekeeping.
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thay move that slow.WOW!!!!!!
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2.
The sloth can move from tree to tree without ever touching the ground.
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thats so cool and true
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3.
Sloths live in the rainforests of South America; although there are rainforest elsewhere in the world they only live in South America
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4.
When sloths get too hot they stretch out and expose their bellies.
This allows the heat to be released.
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5.
Sloth's fur is so thick insects make a home.
Butterflies, beetles and mites lay their eggs and live in the sloth's fur.
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6.
Sloth's fur grows in the opposite direction to allow the rain to run off its body.
Most mammal's hair goes downward, sloth's hair grows from its belly upwards.
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7.
Harpy Eagles prey on sloths
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8.
Sloths spend their whole lives in trees.
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9.
Sloths can only travel 6 to 8 feet per minute.
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10.
Sloth comes from an old English word meaning sluggish or lazy.
The sloth is by no means lazy, just slow by nature.
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11.
Sloths are very good swimmers
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12.
Sloths cannot survive in the cold.
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13.
Because of their limited diet, sloths are difficult to keep in captivity.
Sloths live on a diet of Cecropia tree; these trees are only found in rainforests.
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Then why do they ceep them in captivity.
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14.
A Sloth's fur looks like the outside of a cocoanut.
When it is sleeping the sloth looks like a stump on a tree.
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15.
Sloths are not large animals
The largest is about 2 feet long and weights 20 pounds.
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The Sloth is the slowest land mammal on earth.
It would take a sloth over 2 minutes to walk across a room
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Wow! That's slow
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17.
Sloths are distant cousins of the anteater and armadillo
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Thats amazing
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18.
Sloths account for 25% of the mammals in Central and South America
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19.
Sloths do everything upside down.
They eat, sleep, mate and give birth upside down.
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20.
Some of the sloth's ancestors were as big as elephants.
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