Toed Sloth

Here are my thoughts about Toed Sloth.

The name "Sloth": "Sloth" comes from the Middle English "slowthe" which means "slowly". "Tridactylus" means "three fingers".

Location: Honduras to northern Argentina

Habitat: trees. Forests and on the shore, in areas where the plant grows trumpetwood.

Description: This is sloppy around the head, neck long and flexible, the eyes and ears are small. The coat is bristly and thick, gray-brown color with white and orange markings on the back. The legs are long, especially the front legs, feet and has a long curved claws (three feet in front and four on the back foot). The end of each foot with hair. Sloth can reach two feet in length, with a short tail, no more than three inches. 9 and weighs 10 kg.

Behavior: This feed only on leaves and fruits trumpetwood lazy that if you are using your sense of smell. Living in the trees, slowly among the branches in search of food. She spent many hours will depend on a horizontal branch, with the curved claws on their feet four hooks. Sloths often greenish with algae growing on his long thick hair (that was the old one was a Rolling Stone is not moss?). Laziness is rarely falls to the ground.

Reproduction: Sloth a distinctive "ay-ay" to mourn, the increase in frequency during the mating season. After a gestation of 120 180 days, the female delivers a single young.