Facts about sloths

1. Sloths eat only tree leaves, which are difficult to digest. Digestion of them lasts a month and carried out with the help of symbiotic bacteria living in the digestive tract of a sloth. 2/3 the weight of the sloth - is the contents of his stomach.

2. Power sloth is the main reason for his "lazy" - an animal trying to spend less energy, since almost all of it is necessary for him to digest. At the same time the leaves are very nizokaloriynoy food and produce very little energy.

3. sloths amazing Neck: long, mobile, consisting of 8 vertebrae. Thanks to her, the sloth can collect food, turning his head in all directions, but not budging.

4. Unlike most mammals, sloths have full color vision.

5. Sloths "go to the toilet" just one time a week. Bladder have enormous. In order to relieve themselves, sloths have to get down from the tree to the ground, and he did extremely dislikes: first, the trigger-rise need to spend a lot of effort, and secondly, on the ground sloth feels helpless.

6. Due to the fact that all life sloths are in "limbo" state, their bodies disposed unusual. For example, the liver is turned towards the back and is not in contact with the abdominal wall of the trachea and bend t. D. The coat grows towards the ridge, in contrast to all other mammals.

7. Sloths are so inactive that their fur live insects such as butterfly ognёvka, as well as blue-green algae that give hair a greenish tint, hiding in green leaves sloth.

8. Get off the tree so hard for sloth, that if the cub will fall down, the mother is unlikely to climb over him. Actually, they mate and give birth to offspring, too, sloths hanging from the branches.

9. Despite the fact that sloths are absolutely defenseless and can not even escape from a predator, they are very abundant due to good disguise and slow movements. In some areas, sloths make up 2/3 of the total biomass.

10. The brain contains very little lazy meanders, only well-developed olfactory region.