Facts about sloths

Sloths - a strange and cute creatures about which we know little. As you can guess, they are so named because they are considered the slowest animals in the world. Sloths - a slow-moving mammals that live in the trees, which are basically hanging upside down, dangling from the branches of trees.

These slow-moving animals mainly live in South and Central America. They have a small head, small eyes and ears, a tiny tail is hidden in fur, while the rest of the body is quite large, long and strong in the front and hind legs to help them climb trees. There are 6 species of sloths, but the most common types are three-toed and Linnaeus's two-toed sloth. Funny animals 1. sloth Sloths can defecate once a week. They come down from the tree, dig a hole, defecate and urinate, cover their waste and climb back to the tree. Leaving his place in the tree, they become vulnerable to other predators such as eagles and jaguars.

2. In comparison with other mammals, sloth moves very slowly, about 1: 8 - 2, 4 meters per minute. They cling to a tree paws with long claws that can reach 8-10 cm in length.

3. These creatures sleep about 10 to 20 hours a day, sveshivayas with wood or curling up into a ball near the branches.

4. Ancient sloths grew to the size of slona.

5. sloths can sometimes take up to a month to digest the food. It herbivores, feeding on leaves. Sami leaves are not very nutritious, because these animals big stomach with multiple departments. It consists of 4 portions, allowing slowly digest leaves.

6. Dead sloths retain his grip and continue to hang from the tree.

7. Sloths are clumsy on land but are excellent swimmers. Often you can see how the three-toed sloths fall straight from the tree into the water. They move in the water in three times faster than sushe.

8. sloths have an extra cervical vertebra, which allows them to turn his head 270 gradusov.

9. Relatives are armadillos and sloths muravedy.

10. Sloths are so inactive that their fur grow algae, which help them to disguise themselves in the trees.

11. Sloths - hermits, they meet other members only for reproduction. Mate they, too, hanging from vetok.

12. Sloths do not get fat. Additional reserves of fat they have stored on the balls of the feet .

The slothful: funny videos 1. A whole bucket of holidaymakers sloths 2. 3. sloths sloth crossing the road, you can go help, but rather the way to fly 4. 5. slothful sloths float resting in the boat

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