Sloths

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 a sloth - is the contents of his stomach.

Power sloth is the main reason for his "lazy" - an animal trying to spend less energy, since almost all of it needs it for digestion. In this case, the leaves are very low-calorie diet and give very little energy.

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

Unlike most mammals, sloths have full color vision.

Sloths "go to the toilet" just one day a week. Bladder them huge. In order to relieve themselves, sloths need to get down from the tree to the ground, and he did extremely dislikes: firstly, on the descent-ascent need to spend a lot of effort, and secondly, on the ground sloth feels helpless.

Due to the fact that all life sloths are in "limbo" state, their bodies are located unusual. For example, the liver is rotated back to and in contact with the abdominal wall of the trachea and bend t. D. The coat grows towards the ridge, unlike all other mammals.

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, sloth hiding in green leaves.

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

Despite the fact that sloths completely exposed 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.

Sloths brain contains very little convolutions, well developed only areas that are responsible for the sense of smell.