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The Sloths Get a Pet (Step into Reading) by Maribeth Boelts, 2003-10-28
Sloth: Ode to Disarray & Delay (Sin Series) by Dale Burg, 2006-02-07
Speed Up, Sammy the Tree Sloth (Animal Underdogs) (Animal Underdogs) by Carl Emerson, 2007-07-01
Sloth's Shoes by Jeanne Willis, Willis Jeanne, 1998-03
Memoir on the megatherium, or giant ground-sloth of America by Richard Owen, 2010-08-21
SLOTH by TOM THORNTON, 2009-08-20
Discover Your Inner Sloth: Mix in Its Leisurely Dynamic to Banish Stress Before It Ruins Your Life and Relationships by Gillian Bridge, 2007-05
Ice Age 2: Sid and the Mini-Sloths by Jennifer Frantz, 2006-03-01
The Sloth: The World's Slowest Mammal (Animal Record Breakers) by Joy Paige, 2002-08
Three Toed Sloths and Seven League Boots: A Dictionary of Numerical Expressions by Laurence Urdang, 1992-12
The haemoflagellates of sloths, by Jeffrey Jon Shaw, 1969
El Perezoso/the Sloth: El Mamifero Mas Lento Del Mundo (Campeones del Mundo Animal) (Spanish Edition) by Joy Paige, 2003-12
The Sloths of Kruvny by Vern Fearing, 2010-07-06
Discovering the World of the Three-toed Sloth by John Hoke, 1977-03

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Hulu - Saturday Night Live: SNL Digital Short: Sloths!
Video description They sleep 18 hours and party for 24!
http://www.hulu.com/watch/17201/saturday-night-live-sloths
The Hidden Lives Of Sloths: Interesting Thing Of The Day
All sloths have three toes, even the twotoed ones! That's just one of many surprising facts about these docile, slow-moving creatures often found in tropical rain forests.
http://itotd.com/articles/450/the-hidden-lives-of-sloths/
SLOTH FAQ : Two-toed Sloths
from Animal Diversity Web Megalonychidae twotoed sloths. This family contains 2 species placed in a single genus, Choloepus. Two-toed sloths are found in Central America
http://sloths.org/faq/index.html

Extractions: from Animal Diversity Web This family contains 2 species placed in a single genus, Choloepus . Two-toed sloths are found in Central America, throughout northern South America and in the Amazon basin. Two toed sloths are medium-sized animals, with a body slightly more than half a meter in length and weight up to around 9 kg. They are covered with long, usually pale gray-brown fur (paler on the head) that takes on a greenish hue due to symbiotic algae living on the hairs. Under the coarse outer fur, the pelage grades into a layer of finer, shorter underfur. External ears are much reduced in size. The forelimbs and hindlimbs are long, with the forelimbs somewhat longer than the hindlimbs (but the difference is not as extreme as it is in three-toed sloths, Bradypodidae. The forelimbs end in two large, curved claws; these are attached to digits that are enclosed in a web of skin (syndactylous). The hindlimbs have three claws and are also syndactylous. The tail is small or absent. The skulls of these sloths are relatively short. The rostrum is distinctly convex in profile. True tympanic bullae are lacking. There is, however, an ectotympanic, and the pterygoids and alisphenoids are swollen, forming a sort of inflated bullae. The mandible has a large coronoid process, and the condyloid process lies in the same plane as the toothrow. The zygomatic arch is incomplete, the jugal ending in flared dorsal and ventral processes. The premaxilla is small.
Video -- Sloths -- National Geographic
Take your time. No, really take your time. It can take a slowmoving sloth up to a month to digest one meal!
http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/player/animals/mammals-animals/other-m
Sloths Of South America
The world’s slowest moving mammal, sloths are tree dwellers, carrying out most of their activities hanging upside down in trees. They eat, sleep, mate, give birth, and tend
http://gosouthamerica.about.com/od/landcreatures/qt/sloths.htm

Extractions: zWASL=1;zGRH=1 zJs=10 zJs=11 zJs=12 zJs=13 zc(5,'jsc',zJs,9999999,'') zDO=0 Home Travel South America Travel Search From Bonnie Hamre , former About.com Guide Two-toed Sloth ClipArt.com zSB(3,3) Closely related to armadillos and anteaters, sloths originated in South America in the Late Eocene period, the "dawn of recent life," when South America became "became home to a unique zoo of hoofed mammals, edentates, marsupials, and more giant flightless birds (Phorusrachids)." There were at one time over 35 types of sloths, ranging from Antartica up through Central America. Now there are only two with five species living in the tropical rain forests of Central and South America. (Choloepus hoffmanni or Unau) found in the forested regions of northern South America from Ecuador to Costa Rica, and (Choloepus didattylus) in Brazil. There are three species of three-toed sloth
At The Zoo: Slow And Steady Sloths - National Zoo| FONZ
sloths evolved a penchant for hanging around, and they don't need life in the fast lane. Brought to you by the National Zoo FONZ.
http://nationalzoo.si.edu/Publications/ZooGoer/2004/6/sloths.cfm
Sloth Information - Learn About Sloths - Rainforest Animals
If you want to learn about sloths, this page contains lots of useful information about its habitat and lifestyle, as well as how
http://www.therainforests.info/animals/sloth.htm

Extractions: Home The Animals and Plants The People and Landscape Help to Buy Rainforest and Save it! ... Contact Us If you want to learn about Sloths, this page contains lots of useful information about its habitat and lifestyle, as well as how it is affected by changes to the rainforests. The living sloths comprise six species of medium-sized mammals that live in Central and South America belonging to the families Megalonychidae and Bradypodidae, part of the order Pilosa. Most scientists call the sloth suborder Folivora, while some call it Phyllophaga. Both names mean "leaf-eaters"; the first is derived from Latin, the second from ancient Greek. Tribal names include Ritto, Rit and Ridette, mostly forms of the word "sleep", "eat" and "dirty" from Tagaeri tribe of Huaorani. This page mainly deals with the living tree-dwelling sloths. Until geologically recent times, large ground sloths such as Megatherium lived in South America and parts of North America, but along with many other animals they disappeared immediately after the arrival of humans on the continent. Much evidence suggests that human hunting contributed to the extinction of the American megafauna, like that of far northern Asia, Australia, New Zealand, and Madagascar. Simultaneous climate change that came with the end of the last Ice age may have also played a role in some cases. However, the fact that ground sloths survived on the Antilles long after they had died out on the mainland points towards human activities as the agency of extinction.
Xenarthra.org
Information about the biology of sloths and other Xenarthrans.
http://www.xenarthra.org/
Two-Toed Sloth - Choloepus Hoffmanni
Present day Sloth ancestors can be traced back to about 60 million years ago when there were both tree and ground sloths.
http://www.tigerhomes.org/animal/two-toed-sloth.cfm

Extractions: The Two-Toed Sloth choloepus hoffmanni often referred to as Hoffman's Two-Toed Sloth is one of the world's most unique small mammals. Present day Sloth ancestors can be traced back to about 60 million years ago when there were both tree and ground Sloths. Some species of the now extinct giant Ground Sloth were as large as an elephant. All modern day living Sloths are Two-Toed Sloth or Three-Toed Sloths and classified as tree sloths. During the Ice Age, Giant Ground Sloths moved into North America from its origin in South America followed by their close relatives, the Armadillos which were probably the ultimate ancestor of the Sloth. Sloths are also related to anteaters in a group of mammals known as edentates . Sloths do have cheek teeth but are lacking incisors and canines and also make use of their hard lips to help tear at foraged food. CLICK HERE TO SEE ANIMAL WEBCAMS Should you decide to go on a wild animal safari, you will have to look high up in the treetop canopy cover to observe a sloth in the wild. Sloths are famous for their ability to live and perform almost all basic life functions while hanging upside down suspended in mid-air!
Welcome To The Roo Ranch | MEET THE ANIMALS
sloths' claws serve as their only natural defense. A cornered sloth may swipe at its attackers in an effort to scare them away or wound them. Despite sloths' apparent
http://www.therooranch.com/animals/sloths.html

Extractions: Our Wish List The living sloths comprise six species of medium-sized mammals that live in Central and South America belonging to the families Megalonychidae and Bradypodidae, part of the order Pilosa. The sloth's taxonomic suborder is Folivora, while some call it Phyllophaga. Both names mean "leaf-eaters"; the first is derived from Latin, the second from ancient Greek. Tribal names include Ritto, Rit and Ridette, mostly forms of the word "sleep", "eat" and "dirty" from Tagaeri tribe of Huaorani. Until geologically recent times, ground sloths such as Megatherium lived in South America and parts of North America, but along with many other animals they disappeared immediately after the arrival of humans on the continent Much evidence suggests that human hunting contributed to the extinction of the American megafauna, like that of far northern Asia, Australia, New Zealand, and Madagascar. Simultaneous climate change that came with the end of the last Ice age may have also played a role in some cases. However, the fact that ground sloths survived on the Antilles long after they had died out on the mainland points towards human activities as the agency of extinction. The living sloths are omnivores. They may eat insects, small lizards, and carrion, but their diet consists mostly of buds, tender shoots, and leaves, mainly of Cecropia trees. They 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 therefore have very large, specialized, slow-acting stomachs with multiple compartments in which symbiotic bacteria break down the tough leaves. 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 a month or more to complete.
Dragon Boat Sports Club - Sloths
Page contains crew photos, race results, calendar, and general information about the sport of dragonboating.
http://www.thesloths.com
Sloth - Facts, Pictures, And Videos
sloths are mediumsized mammals that live in Central and South America belonging to the families Megalonychidae and Bradypodidae, part of the order Pilosa.
http://www.animalwebguide.com/sloth.htm

Extractions: Sloths are omnivores. They may eat insects, small lizards and carrion, but their diet consists mostly of buds, tender shoots, and 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. 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 or 86 to 93 degrees Fahrenheit), and still lower temperatures when resting. Sloths mainly live in Cecropia trees. Sloth fur also exhibits specialized functions: the outer hairs grow in a direction opposite from that of other mammals. In most mammals, hairs grow toward the extremities, but because sloths spend so much time with their legs above their bodies, their hairs grow away from the extremities in order to provide protection from the elements while the sloth hangs upside down. In moist conditions, the fur hosts two species of symbiotic cyanobacteria, which may provide camouflage. The outer fur coat is usually a thick brown, but occasionally wild sloths appear to have a green tinge to their fur because of the presence of these bacteria. The bacteria provide nutrients to the sloth, and are licked. Sloths have short, flat heads, big eyes, a short snout, long legs, and tiny ears. They also exhibit stubby tails, usually 6-7cm long. Altogether, sloths bodies usually are anywhere between 50 and 60 cm long.
Sloths - The Sleepiest Of All Creatures | Animal Pictures And Facts | FactZoo.co
sloths the slowest of mammals is not bothered by the hectic pace of many in the animal world and is content to live a life of ease in the trees.
http://www.factzoo.com/mammals/sloths.html

Extractions: Even labor and delivery is uneventful for a sloth. Delivery takes about 15-30 minutes, birthing occurs in the upside down position and mom just reaches out and catches baby when the baby is born. The baby sloth will stay with mom for a total of 9 months but only the first month is spent nursing. They begin eating moms favorite leaves after the first month. They are born with the molars in place. It seems as if a sloth cannot hear very well, or maybe they are just too disinterested to listen, but their sense of smell is fabulous when food is involved. The sloth lifestyle promotes longevity; they live up to 30 years in captivity. Maybe being slothful is not a deadly sin but instead a smart lifestyle choice, for tree dwellers. sloths sloths Photo search for "bradypodidae" on Flickr.com:
Idaho Sloths
Here is the information for Saturdays run. I am posting 2 routes with 2 different start times so take your pick. Read more
http://idahosloths.com/

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Sloths Videos - By Video Site
Tags BBC Attenborough Animal Wild Wildlife Free Video Nature Mammals
http://www.dvbs.eu.org/sloths/
Sloth S Auto
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http://www.slothsauto.dk/
ADW: Cingulata: Classification
Overview of the order of armadillos, anteaters, and sloths from the Animal Diversity Web.
http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/chordata/mammalia/xenarthra.html

Extractions: The icons tell you what features are available for that taxon. Information Pictures Specimens Sounds Selecting an icon will take you directly to that feature. Confused by a class within a class or an order within an order ? Please see our brief essay Scientific names for Aves taxonomy (family and below) are from The Howard and Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World Parent taxa
Not Living Up To Their Name
Max Planck scientists find evidence that sloths in the wild sleep a lot less than previously thought.
http://www.orn.mpg.de/aktuelles/presse/faultier_en.pdf
Woodland Park Zoo, Seattle, WA - Home
Fun facts including how this animal was originally classified as a sloth, not a bear.
http://www.zoo.org/factsheets/sloth_bear/slothBear.html
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