Pygmy three-toed sloth

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Pygmy three-fingered sloth (Bradypus pygmaeus) is a small population, based on a small island off the coast of Panama, known as the island of Isla Escudo yardarms you. They are found only in red mangrove forests around the island, near the sea are the most vulnerable XENARTHRA. Laziness is a dwarf compared to other dwarf species, inertia in the continent.

It also goes by the name of the monk Sloth.

The coat is a three-fingered sloth pygmy spotted gray-brown with a tan face. The front is a dark stripe, which is the distinctive character and Shaggy in the long hair hanging over his face. This gives the appearance of lazy pygmy with a cap. The inertia is so slow that the growth of algae is a green tint to camouflage in the forest.

The three fingers (Bradypus) are easy to distinguish two lazy fingers (Choloepus), the distant relative of the foam in the nose, the PEG-like teeth and three digits on the front. These types of inertia is seventeen and eighteen and a half inches long with a tail of 1.5 to 2.4 cm long. The three fingers lazy pygmy weighs only 5.5 to 7.7 pounds.

It is not known, but it is safe to assume that the reproductive habits of pygmy sloth is the same as that of the other three fingers lazy species. Other species mate inertia and its youth, while hanging in the trees. The baby will cling to the mother of the first nine months of life, even if they are eating solid food before this date.

The pygmy is a lazy three fingers folivores eat the leaves of trees that several species of trees. The lazy are extremely low metabolic rate, as is a regime that does not mean that much energy. The defense of inertia remain to be discovered by predators and camouflage. Although, if the three fingers lazy pygmy is attacked and hide the hard way extraordinary, with the ability to heal their wounds, giving them the chance of survival.

The range of pygmies is lazy to three fingers of a small island, but are still in danger. It is suspected that they were illegally hunted and growth of the tourism industry is a threat because of habitat destruction. Pygmy three fingers of laziness is considered critically endangered.