* Threatened or Endangered
Linnaeus's Two-Toed Sloth *
: Choloepus didactylus
: Mammal
: Sloths live high in trees in tropical rainforests in Central
America and in northern South America.
: Sloths eat leaves, young plant shoots, and fruit. They’ll
occasionally also eat insect larvae or an egg.
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• Sloths stay high in the canopy of tropical rain forests.
• They live in a range of about 10 acres.
• Sloths get water from their food and by lapping dew off leaves and fruits.
• Food stays in their digestive systems for about a month.
• They only go to the bathroom about once a week.
• Sloths sleep about 15 hours a day and, as nocturnal animals, wake up to eat at night.
• They are very clumsy on the forest floor, but swim surprisingly well.