21. Sloths - Mammal Directory sloths TwoToed, Choloepus Hoffmanni Three-Toed, Bradypus Variegatus by Jacalyn Giacalone, Ph.D. Other than howler monkeys, not many mammal species on BCI can live and flourish http://rainforest.montclair.edu/pwebrf/rainforest/Animals/mammals/sloths.html

if(isNS6) document.write(''); else document.write(''); if(isNS6) document.write(''); else document.write(''); if(isNS6) document.write(''); else document.write(''); Sloths Two-Toed, Choloepus Hoffmanni Three-Toed, Bradypus Variegatus by Jacalyn Giacalone, Ph.D. Other than howler monkeys, not many mammal species on BCI can live and flourish on a steady diet of tree leaves, but sloths do very well on this food source, provided they are the right kinds of leaves. Tree leaves tend to be coarse and difficult to digest, full of tough cellulose and protected by toxic chemicals produced by trees to ward off their predators. In this war between plants and the animals that would eat them, sloths have succeeded through adaptations that enable them to be leaf-eaters, or folivores. Furthermore, they do their leaf-eating on the crowns of mature trees, only infrequently coming down to the ground, so they are called arboreal folivores. The story of their adaptation to the canopy of the forest and to leafy food supplies is an unusual one. Sloths have long, shaggy fur that they groom carefully every day. The mother sloth (facing to the left) was clinging to a tree trunk and carrying a baby near her neck (see the small face?).

22. The Sloth - Enchanted Learning Software The sloth is a slowmoving mammal that lives in trees. sloths spend most of their lives hanging upside-down from tree branches; they eat, sleep, mate, and give birth upside-down http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/mammals/sloth/index.shtml

Advertisement. EnchantedLearning.com is a user-supported site. As a bonus, site members have access to a banner-ad-free version of the site, with print-friendly pages. Click here to learn more. Join Enchanted Learning Site subscriptions last 12 months. Click here for more information on site membership. As low as $20.00/year (directly by Credit Card Site members have access to the entire website with print-friendly pages and no ads. (Already a member? Click here. Sloth Printout Three-toed Sloth Printout Zoom Mammals All About Sloths Sloth Quiz to Print-out BEHAVIOR AND SOCIAL HABITS The sloth is a slow-moving mammal that lives in trees. Sloths spend most of their lives hanging upside-down from tree branches; they eat, sleep, mate, and give birth upside-down in the trees. They hold onto tree branches with strong, curved claws that are on each of their four feet. Male sloths are solitary, shy animals. Females sometimes congregate together. Sloths are nocturnal ; they are most active at night and sleep all day. SLOTH ANATOMY Sloths have a thick brown (and slightly-greenish) fur coat. Sloths are about the size of a cat (roughly 2 feet = 61 cm long). They have a short, flat head, big eyes, a short snout, a short or non-existent tail, long legs, and tiny ears. Sturdy, curved claws are on each foot; they use these claws to hang from trees.

23. Sloth - Crystalinks Sloth. sloths are mediumsized South American mammals belonging to the families Megalonychidae and Bradypodidae, part of the order Pilosa. Most scientists call these two families the http://www.crystalinks.com/sloth.html

Sloth Sloths are medium-sized South American mammals 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 herbivores, eating very little other than 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. Sloths may also eat insects and small lizards and carrion. 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), and still lower temperatures when resting. Until geologically recent times, large ground-dwelling sloths such as

24. Costa Rica - Sloths All about sloths including the two and three toed sloth http://www.costarica.com/costa-rica-wildlife/mammals/sloths/

25. Sloth - New World Encyclopedia Sloth is the common name for any of the slowmoving, New World arboreal mammals comprising the families Megalonychidae (two-toed sloths) and Bradypodidae (three-toed sloths) of http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Sloth

Sloth From New World Encyclopedia Jump to: navigation search Previous (Slime mold) Next (Slovakia) Sloths Brown-throated three-toed sloth Bradypus variegatus Gatun Lake, Republic of Panama Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Subclass: Theria Infraclass: Eutheria Superorder: Xenarthra Order: Pilosa Suborder: Folivora Delsuc, Catzeflis, Stanhope, and Douzery, 2001 Families Bradypodidae Megalonychidae and see text Sloth is the common name for any of the slow-moving, New World arboreal mammals comprising the families Megalonychidae (two-toed sloths) and Bradypodidae (three-toed sloths) of the order Pilosa. There are six extant species . The four living species of Bradypodidae are about the size of a small dog and are characterized by three-clawed digits on their forelimbs and a short tail. The two living species of Megalonychidae are characterized by only two digits on their forefeet, the absence of a tail, and a more prominent snout, and longer fur. Sloths are found in Central and South America The two-toed sloths are somewhat larger and generally faster moving than the three-toed sloths, but all are noted for their very slow, graceful movements. They also are noted for their almost exclusively arboreal existence, descending to the ground only rarely to urinate and defecate and generally hanging upside-down from branches with their long, curved claws. Sloths provide unique ecological functions. The

26. Sloth: Information From Answers.com Nocturnal, solitary, treedwelling mammal (family Bradypodidae), found in South and Central America. About 2 ft (60 cm) long, sloths have a tiny tail, peglike teeth, long http://www.answers.com/topic/sloth-1

var isReferenceAnswers = true; BodyLoad('s'); On this page Library Animal Life Health History, Politics, Society ... Technology sloth Britannica Concise Encyclopedia: sloth Home Library Miscellaneous Britannica Concise Encyclopedia (click to enlarge) Three-toed sloth (Bradypus tridactylus) (credit: Des Bartlett/Bruce Coleman Ltd.) Nocturnal, solitary, tree-dwelling mammal (family Bradypodidae), found in South and Central America. About 2 ft (60 cm) long, sloths have a tiny tail, peglike teeth, long curved claws, and long forelimbs. A green alga grows in the shaggy fur. The four species of three-toed sloths, or ais ( Bradypus ), eat only leaves of the trumpet tree. The two species of two-toed sloths, or unaus ( Choloepus ), have two toes on the forelimbs; they eat fruits, stems, and leaves of various plants. Sloths cannot walk. They cling upright to trunks, hang upside down (in which position they sleep some 15 hours a day), or move, extremely slowly (hence their name), by pulling hand over hand. Their natural camouflage is their chief protection from predators. For more information on sloth , visit Britannica.com

27. Two-toed Sloth - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia The two extant species of two-toed sloths are Linnaeus s (Choloepus didactylus) and Hoffmann s two-toed sloth (Choloepus hoffmanni). They are the only members of the genus Choloepus and are the only living members of the family Megalonychidae. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-toed_sloth

Two-toed sloth From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation search Two-toed sloths PreЄ O S D ... N Early Oligocene to Recent Linnaeus's Two-toed Sloth (Choloepus didactylus) Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Superorder: Xenarthra Order: Pilosa Suborder: Folivora Family: Megalonychidae Genus: Choloepus Linnaeus Species Choloepus didactylus Choloepus hoffmanni Choloepus is a genus of mammals of Central and South America, within the family Megalonychidae consisting of two-toed sloths There are only two species of Choloepus (which name means "lame foot" Linnaeus's Two-toed Sloth Choloepus didactylus ) and Hoffmann's Two-toed Sloth Choloepus hoffmanni ). These two species are the only members of the family Megalonychidae Although similar to the somewhat smaller and generally slower moving three-toed sloths Bradypus ), there is not a close relationship between the two genera. Recent phylogenetic analyses support the morphological data from the 1970s and 1980s that the two genera are not closely related and that each adopted their arboreal lifestyles independently. It is unclear what, if any

28. Sloths - Pets Forum - GardenWeb This forum is for the discussion of pets, and not for discussions by pets! Pets are prohibited from posting to our forums! And we mean that! Geez, they never listen http://ths.gardenweb.com/forums/load/pets/msg0709420110031.html

29. Small Mammals: Two-toed Sloth - National Zoo| FONZ Facts about twotoed sloths. Brought to you by the National Zoo FONZ. http://nationalzoo.si.edu/Animals/SmallMammals/fact-sloth.cfm

30. Answers.com - Sloths Questions Including "How Far Does A Sloth Travel In 1 Day" sloths Questions including How far does a sloth travel in 1 day and Do tropical rainforest plants have any special adaptations to survive http://wiki.answers.com/Q/FAQ/3410-7

31. Sloth : Facts, Pictures, Video : Animal Planet Giant sloths? Ancestors of presentday, tree-dwelling sloths included huge, ground-dwelling sloths such as Megatherium — one of the largest mammals to ever walk the earth. http://animal.discovery.com/mammals/sloth/

32. Xenarthra.org Provides information on these sloths in the genus Choloepus, which live in trees in the northern half of South America. http://xenarthra.org/sloth/choloepus/

33. Answers.com - Sloths Questions Including "What Animal Has The Same Name As One O sloths Questions including What animal has the same name as one of the seven sins and sloths food chain http://wiki.answers.com/Q/FAQ/3410

34. Xenarthra.org Provides information on these sloths in the genus Bradypus, which live in trees in the northern half of South America. http://xenarthra.org/sloth/bradypus/

35. Sloths | Ask.com Encyclopedia This article is about the South American mammal. For other uses, see Sloth (disambiguation). http://www.ask.com/wiki/Sloths?qsrc=3044

36. Sloths - EHow.com Learn about sloths on eHow.com. Find info and videos including Sloth Diet, About the Three Toed Sloth, About Three Toed sloths and much more. http://www.ehow.com/sloths/

Family Food Health Home Money Style More Home Sloths Sloths Sloths Featured Articles About Three Toed Sloths The three-toed sloth is a mammal found from the middle jungle portions of Central America southwards into the Amazon rain forest. Three-toed sloths are notoriously slow moving creatures and spend nearly all of their lives in trees. Three-toed sloths are one of the two types of sloths in the world, with the other variety possessing two... Life Cycle of Sloths The process that chronicles an organism from fertilization to the age of reproduction is called its life cycle. Animals' life cycles differ in the amount of time it takes from conception to the arrival of the infant animal, the gestation stage and the maturation phase. The time it takes for a growing sloth to reach sexual maturity... Information About the Three Toed Sloth Sloths evolved 35 million years ago in South America from one of the first types of mammals. Today's sloths inhabit South American and Central American rain forests. Sloths are divided into two types: two-toed and three-toed. The Three-Toed Sloth's Habitat The three-toed sloth is a slow-moving mammal that lives high in the trees of the rainforests. The three-toed sloth is roughly the size of a small dog and has long claws that help it hang on tree limbs.

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38. Three-toed Sloth - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia Information from Wikipedia on the four sloths included in the Bradypodidae family. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradypodidae

Three-toed sloth From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Redirected from Bradypodidae Jump to: navigation search Three-toed sloths Brown-throated Three-toed Sloth Bradypus variegatus Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Pilosa Suborder: Folivora Family: Bradypodidae Genus: Bradypus Linnaeus Species See text Green: B. variegatus , Blue: B. tridactylus , Red: B. torquatus The three-toed sloths are the only members of the genus Bradypus and the family Bradypodidae . There are four living species of three-toed sloths. These are the Brown-throated Sloth , the Maned Sloth , the Pale-throated Sloth , and the Pygmy Three-toed Sloth Although similar to the somewhat larger and generally faster moving two-toed sloths , the two genera are not particularly closely related. Recent phylogenetic analyses support the morphological data from the 1970s and 1980s that the two genera are not closely related and that each adopted their arboreal lifestyles independently. It is unclear what, if any, ground-dwelling sloth taxa the three-toed sloths evolved from; the two-toed sloths appear to nest phylogenetically within one of the divisions of Caribbean megalonychids and thus probably either descended from them or are part of a clade that invaded the Caribbean multiple times. Both types of

39. Sloths Sloths - EHow.com Learn about sloths sloths on eHow.com. Find info and videos including Sloth Diet, About the Three Toed Sloth, About Three Toed sloths and much more. http://www.ehow.com/sloths-sloths/

Family Food Health Home Money Style More Home Sloths Sloths Sloths Sloths Sloths Sloths Featured Articles About Three Toed Sloths The three-toed sloth is a mammal found from the middle jungle portions of Central America southwards into the Amazon rain forest. Three-toed sloths are notoriously slow moving creatures and spend nearly all of their lives in trees. Three-toed sloths are one of the two types of sloths in the world, with the other variety possessing two... Life Cycle of Sloths The process that chronicles an organism from fertilization to the age of reproduction is called its life cycle. Animals' life cycles differ in the amount of time it takes from conception to the arrival of the infant animal, the gestation stage and the maturation phase. The time it takes for a growing sloth to reach sexual maturity... Information About the Three Toed Sloth Sloths evolved 35 million years ago in South America from one of the first types of mammals. Today's sloths inhabit South American and Central American rain forests. Sloths are divided into two types: two-toed and three-toed. The Three-Toed Sloth's Habitat The three-toed sloth is a slow-moving mammal that lives high in the trees of the rainforests. The three-toed sloth is roughly the size of a small dog and has long claws that help it hang on tree limbs.

40. Meet The Sloths On Vimeo I filmed this at the Aviaros del Caribe sloth sanctuary in Costa Rica the world's only sloth orphanage. Baby 2 and 3 toed sloths, whose mother's have either been run over or http://vimeo.com/11712103

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