The sloth moves really slow. They also eat insects and small lizards, and plants. They mostly spend their time in the trees. People mostly hunt sloths in New Zealand,Asia. The sloths body is 50 to 60cm long. The sloth also sleeps upside down for 18 hours and when the mother can give brith upside down. The sloth moves 1.2 miles per hour. When a predator is trying get a sloth the sloth moves 4.5 miles per hour 15 feet per min.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSpVW6KR8mU
The sloths main predators are the jaguar and the harpy eagle. Every sloth sleeps under ten hour every day. If the sloth is born upside down and when the sloth comes out wrong or something goes wrong and the sloth hits the floor the sloth dies right whenit hits the ground. The sloth is one of the six species of the South America's forest that only has three toses. The claws of the sloth has fur and it makes it easy for them to live on the tree. Also the claws of the sloth when it is hungs on a tree it is like stuck on to it like glue and a hunter shots from above and when it dies it is still stuck on to the tree.
Classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Subclass: Theria
Infraclass: Eutheria
Superorder: Xenarthra
Order: Pilosa
When ever the sloth sleeps thats were he/she goes there every dat intill it does not want to sleep their any more but when it move it takes 1 or 2 years. The sloth only has tree toes and it only has two fingers. When the female sloth has a baby it bears it the baby and hids it and then it meets other male sloths every 1 year. When the sloth is born and when the mom lets the sloth on the tree and the mom does not know that the sloth is climbinb up the wrong tree and it usely it falls down and it dies. Thats how some new young babys die at a young age.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sloth
Comments (2)
jeremyR said
at 10:19 am on Feb 9, 2010
Write more about how long they live.
alexanderR said
at 11:08 am on Feb 9, 2010
nice job but its a little short on info
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