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Creature Feature

Creature Feature. Three-toed Sloth. Fast Facts. 4 species Mammal Completely arboreal Use long claws to hang from trees Size of a small dog Weigh 7-10 lbs. Algae grows in fur Go to the ground to urinate and defecate about once a week, digging a hole and covering it afterwards.

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Creature Feature

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  1. Creature Feature

  2. Three-toed Sloth

  3. Fast Facts • 4 species • Mammal • Completely arboreal • Use long claws to hang from trees • Size of a small dog • Weigh 7-10 lbs. • Algae grows in fur • Go to the ground to urinate and defecate about once a week, digging a hole and covering it afterwards

  4. Cannot maintain their body temperature, so they must live in warm, humid climates

  5. Feeding • Sleep 15-20 hrs per day • Forage on plants at night • Eat leaves, shoots, and fruit from the trees • Get most all of their water from juicy plants

  6. Reproduction • Mate and give birth while hanging in the trees • Females give birth to a single young after a gestation period of around 6 months • Babies are often seen clinging to their mothers • They travel by hanging on to them for the first nine months of their lives

  7. Fun Facts • Travel at a top speed of 0.15 mph • Are surprisingly good swimmers • Sometimes fall directly from rain forest trees into rivers • Have extra neck vertebrae that allows them to turn their heads 270 degrees

  8. Conservation • Maned Three-toed sloth is listed as Endangered • Threatened by loss of habitat from destruction of the rainforest • Majority of sloth deaths in Costa Rica are due to contact with electrical lines and poachers

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