1 / 11

SLOTH

SLOTH. What is Sloth?. The Sloth is a mammal The Sloth is the slowest mammal. What do Sloths eat?. The sloth is a folivore It eats mainly leaves, and other parts of the trees. Where does the Sloth Live?. The sloth lives in Central and South America The sloth lives in the rainforest.

thom
Download Presentation

SLOTH

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. SLOTH

  2. What is Sloth? • The Sloth is a mammal • The Sloth is the slowest mammal

  3. What do Sloths eat? • The sloth is a folivore • It eats mainly leaves, and other parts of the trees

  4. Where does the Sloth Live? • The sloth lives in Central and South America • The sloth lives in the rainforest

  5. What does the Sloth do? • The sloth does basically nothing • It eats, sleeps, and walk…very slow

  6. Why are Sloths slow • They move slow so they don’t waste energy • They don’t have fast twitch muscles

  7. Anatomy of a Sloth

  8. Random Facts about Sloth • They sleep about 10 hours a day • Algae grows on their fur so they can hide in the trees

  9. Sloths and the environment • Sloths serve as a home to other animals because they are so dirty • Most of the time algae grows in their fur which serves as camouflage

  10. Bibliography Page • http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/three-toed-sloth/ • http://thefw.com/10-things-you-probably-didnt-know-about-sloths/ • http://www.buzzfeed.com/alecn/15-sloth-facts-from-sloths-cmu4

More Related