Saturday, August 22, 2009

Two-toed Sloth

Here is some information on Two-toed Sloth.

The two fingers Vago (Choloepus Hoffmann), which is bigger than three fingers, the sloth is the slowest mammal in the world. In fact, the algae from their home in the inertia of the skin. This method works well to hide in the forests of Central and South America, those at home. Sloth, two or three fingers and said that the number of threads on each foot.

Laziness is two fingers to life in the treetops.

Beyond its long claws, with its incredible use of hanging branches. Even the dead were lazy to tree branches and suspended in the air. Bum up to twenty hours a day between the trees. As a general rule, that does not move, even if you do not sleep. Two fingers are usually very lazy animals.

If you are on the ground, the back legs are weak and the capture of the road. The two fingers pull lazy belly on the ground, burrow into the mud with the pliers and use the drag of the front legs. Are more vulnerable to predators on Earth, is probably why most of their time in trees. Even when they were surprisingly good for swimming. You can not go to the rivers of the trees.

These lazy at night to eat. Diet includes fruit, leaves and buds. Receiving water from the plants to eat.

Vague so long in the trees, but to mate and give birth after a gestation period of seven to ten months. They're young, the skin of the mother during the first five weeks and travel with him. There is only one inertia, emerged at a time, only twelve to sixteen inches and is only ten centimeters in length. The inertia of this type has reached its maturity in two to five years. (Girls mature faster than men.) Sloth two fingers in a length of twenty centimeters and weighs twenty-nine ten to twenty books.

If the temperature changes of the body rot for more than five degrees, are ill. The temperature of the two fingers should be from 74 to 92 degrees Fahrenheit or 24 to 33 degrees Celsius, depending on the outside. If the weather is rainy and cold for too long, mothers may be a slowdown. When body temperature is too low, the bacteria begin to grow in your stomach to follow. This means that your stomach is no longer working and is not only able to digest their food properly. The mother will die of hunger while the children remained in nursing. Young people sometimes fall from a tree and the man needs to be saved.

Pereza two fingers have the ability to survive in captivity, the three fingers lazy shares this ability. In nature, only two fingers lazy life, on average, ten to five to ten years. In captivity they can live more than thirty years. The species is considered a lower risk when it comes to conservation efforts.

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