1. Toe-toed And Three-toed Sloth Page Contains information about sloths. Facts include appearance, defense, and food sources. http://www.geocities.com/hollywood/set/1478/sloth.html

THE SLOTH WEB SITE This page includes anything and everything related to the unusual mammals known as sloths. Living in South and Central America, these animals spend almost all of their lives hanging and walking upside down from tree branches. Facts about Sloths (Scientific Classification, Appearance, Food, Defense, Birth, Lifespan, Areas Inhabited, Difference Between two-toed and three-toed sloths, etc.) One Minute Video of Dallas Aquarium's Selma the Sloth. NEW Sloth Slide Show NEW Baby Sloth Video NEW Another Baby Sloth Video NEW Places where you can visit Sloths (States of the U.S. and Countries of the World) Slowpoke the Sloth visits the zoo and learns about computers. Sloth photographs and drawings Rescue the Sloth Game Email from other People Contact this Site 28 Links to other Web Sites The hard Sloth quiz. The easier Sloth quiz. Answers to the Sloth quizzes. Free JavaScripts provided by The JavaScript Source Some of the above facts on the sloth are from: Grzimek's Encyclopedia of Mammals, Volume 2, McGraw-Hill Publishing Company, 1990, Sybil P. Parker, Editor. Others are from the Encyclopedia Britannica, 1998. Some of the photographs are provided by the Benac family. This site is always under construction; stories are constantly being added. Thanks for visiting ... Rob H.

2. Animals Of The Rainforest-Sloth sloths are extremely slowmoving mammals found in the rainforest canopies of Central and South America. There are two species of slothstwo-toed and http://www.srl.caltech.edu/personnel/krubal/rainforest/Edit560s6/www/animals/slo

Previous Animal Sloth Rainforest Animals Sloths are extremely slow-moving mammals found in the rainforest canopies of Central and South America. There are two species of sloths:two-toed and three-toed. Most sloths are about the size of a small dog and they have short, flat flat heads. Their hair is grayish brown but, at times they look grey-green in color because they move so slowly that tiny camouflaging algae grow all over their coats. Some sloths stay in the same tree for years. Their huge hooked claws and long arms allow them to spend most of their time hanging upside-down from trees. Since they have a slow metabolism, they need very little food. They feed on fruit, leaves, buds, and young twigs. Sloths also sleep upside-down for up to 18 hours at a time. Mothers also give birth to babies upside-down. Babies cling to their mothers until they are able to take care of themselves. Sloths are nocturnal and sleep curled up with their head placed between the arms and the feet drawn close together. This disguises them as part of a tree so that its enemies like the jaguar do not see them. Sloths rarely climb down from the trees and can live for up to 30 years.

3. The Sloth - Enchanted Learning Software The sloth is a slowmoving mammal that lives in trees. sloths spend most of their lives hanging upside-down from tree branches; they eat, sleep, mate, http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/mammals/sloth/

Advertisement. EnchantedLearning.com is a user-supported site. As a bonus, site members have access to a banner-ad-free version of the site, with print-friendly pages. Click here to learn more. Join Enchanted Learning Site subscriptions last 12 months. Click here for more information on site membership. $20.00/year or other amount (directly by Credit Card $20.00/year or other amount (via PayPal $20.00/year or other amount (for sending a check by mail $20.00/year or other amount (for subscribing by school purchase order As a thank-you bonus, site members have access to a banner-ad-free version of the site, with print-friendly pages. (Already a member? Click here. Sloth Printout Three-toed Sloth Printout Zoom Mammals All About Sloths Sloth Quiz to Print-out BEHAVIOR AND SOCIAL HABITS The sloth is a slow-moving mammal that lives in trees. Sloths spend most of their lives hanging upside-down from tree branches; they eat, sleep, mate, and give birth upside-down in the trees. They hold onto tree branches with strong, curved claws that are on each of their four feet. Male sloths are solitary, shy animals. Females sometimes congregate together. Sloths are

4. Sloth - Crystalinks sloths are mediumsized South American mammals belonging to the families Megalonychidae and Bradypodidae, part of the order Pilosa. http://www.crystalinks.com/sloth.html

Sloth Sloths are medium-sized South American mammals belonging to the families Megalonychidae and Bradypodidae, part of the order Pilosa. Most scientists call these two families the Folivora suborder, while some call it Phyllophaga. Sloths are herbivores, eating very little other than leaves. Sloths have made extraordinary adaptations to an arboreal browsing lifestyle. Leaves, their main food source, provide very little energy or nutrition and do not digest easily: sloths have very large, specialized, slow-acting stomachs with multiple compartments in which symbiotic bacteria break down the tough leaves. Sloths may also eat insects and small lizards and carrion. As much as two-thirds of a well-fed sloth's body-weight consists of the contents of its stomach, and the digestive process can take as long as a month or more to complete. Even so, leaves provide little energy, and sloths deal with this by a range of economy measures: they have very low metabolic rates (less than half of that expected for a creature of their size), and maintain low body temperatures when active (30 to 34 degrees Celsius), and still lower temperatures when resting. Until geologically recent times, large ground-dwelling sloths such as

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6. Sloth World Online bibliography of sloth research articles. Also includes a discussion of sloths and the people who study them. http://www.sloth-world.org/

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8. Return To The Ice Age - The La Brea Exploration Guide Evolving from the tree sloths in South America, ground sloths are very distantly related to anteaters and armadillos. As this animal adapted from a tree http://www.tarpits.org/education/guide/flora/sloth.html

Return to the Ice Age Home La Brea Geology La Brea Flora and Fauna Biodiversity Plants and Their Habitats Invertebrates Lower Vertebrates Birds of Rancho La Brea Herbivores Columbian Mammoth American Mastodon Ground Sloths Western Horse Ancient Bison Dwarf Pronghorn Extinct Camel Rare Mammalian Herbivores Carnivores Dire Wolf Short-faced Bear American Lion Sabertoothed Cat Other Carnivores Human Exploration and Excavations Ground Sloths Harlan's Ground Sloth Shasta Ground Sloth Evolving from the tree sloths in South America, ground sloths are very distantly related to anteaters and armadillos. As this animal adapted from a tree dweller to being ground-based, its limbs still showed a relationship to its ancestors. Typically, ground sloths walked on the sides of their hind feet and the backs of their forefeet. Harlan's ground sloth was the largest and most common of the ground sloths found at Rancho La Brea. It stood over six feet tall and weighed almost

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11. Sloth - MSN Encarta Sloth, common name for certain slowmoving arboreal mammals that inhabit the tropical forests of South and Central America. sloths are divided into http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761562271/sloth.html

var s_account="msnportalencarta"; MSN home Mail My MSN Sign in ... more Hotmail Messenger My MSN MSN Directory Air Tickets/Travel Autos City Guides Election 2008 ... More Additional Reference Materials Thesaurus Translations Multimedia Other Resources Education Resources Math Help Foreign Language Help Project Planner ... Help Editors' Picks Great books about your topic, Sloth , selected by Encarta editors Related Items Xenarthra order forest reserve offering protection more... Encarta Search Search Encarta about Sloth Also on Encarta 7 tips for funding an online degree How to succeed in the fashion industry without being a top designer Presidential Myths Quiz Advertisement Sloth Encyclopedia Article Find Print E-mail Blog It Multimedia 2 items Sloth , common name for certain slow-moving arboreal mammals that inhabit the tropical forests of South and Central America. Sloths are divided into two groups: the three-toed sloths, among which is the ai, and the two-toed sloths, among which is the unau. Sloths are usually about 41 to 74 cm (16 to 29 in) long. The flat, short head has large eyes, a snub nose, and rudimentary ears. The entire body is covered with grayish-brown, short hair. The tail is small in three-toed sloths and absent or vestigal in two-toed sloths. An ancestral form, the giant ground sloth, which lived in the western hemisphere more than 10,000 years ago, reached the size of an elephant. Sloths are relatively long-lived, sometimes living for more than ten years. They spend their entire existence hanging suspended from the boughs of trees, with the legs and face turned upward and the back downward. The limbs are long and well developed, and terminate in long curved claws that hook over and grasp the supporting bough. The forelimbs are longer, better developed, and more mobile than the hindlimbs, particularly in the three-toed sloths. The animal moves by advancing one limb at a time in a slow, deliberate fashion. Sloths descend to the ground only about once each week in order to defecate and urinate. When placed on the ground they lie on their backs or crawl with the greatest difficulty.

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Home Xenarthrans Sloths Rainforests ... Email Quick Links Ground Sloth Choloepus Bradypus Fact Sheet ... Links Search Dictionary Print-Friendly Home Sloths Sloths Physical Description Body Temperature and Metabolism Slow, Steady, and Stealthy Family Life ... Learn More! Sloths are a member of the Xenarthra order, a group of mammals with specialized habitats and abilities. The Xenarthrans evolved over tens of millions of years in South America and included dozens of strange creatures, including the ancient ground sloths. The largest of these, Megatherium , was the size of an elephant and possessed claws 12 inches (30 centimeters) long! However, in today's world, only about thirty Xenarthran species remain - and only five of these are sloths. Physical Description Sloths are tropical tree-dwelling herbivores about the size and shape of a small dog. They have flattened faces with a short snout. Their forelegs are longer than the rear; all four limbs are long and thin and made for hanging. Sloths' rear legs end in small, thin pads with three digits; their front digits number either two (2-toed sloths) or three (3-toed sloths). Sloths possess curved claws 3 to 4 inches (8 to 10 centimeters) in length; these are used for gathering food or for defense. When they are born, sloths already have permanent, enamel-less, hallowed-out molars used for grinding food. These teeth grow continuously throughout a sloth's life. However, sloths do not possess front teeth or incisors; instead, they use their hard, roughened lips to grasp and tear vegetation. Sloths appear to have relatively poor hearing and vision, but like most Xenarthrans, their keen sense of smell allows them to locate appropriate trees for food or to find mates.

13. The Hidden Lives Of Sloths: Interesting Thing Of The Day All sloths have three toes, even the twotoed ones! That s just one of many surprising facts about these docile, slow-moving creatures often found in http://itotd.com/articles/450/the-hidden-lives-of-sloths/

What is this site? Learn more about Interesting Thing of the Day. About See answers to frequently asked questions. FAQ View: Standard Show excerpts of all articles published this month, in reverse chronological order. Blog Contact us by email, snail mail, or phone. ... Write for ITotD this week Animals with Jobs February 4, 2005 The Hidden Lives of Sloths Symbiosis in slow motion three toes on each foot. Clearly there was an interesting story here, but that was just the beginning of the strange and wonderful things I was to discover about sloths. Digital Communication Two-toed and three-toed sloths share many traits in common, but I was surprised to discover how many differences there were. The two-toed sloth ( Choloepus hoffmani ) has light brown fur and is nocturnal. The three-toed sloth ( Bradypus variegatus The Value of a Green Back Bradipodicola hahneli For a Good Time, Call Slow Is Beautiful Joe Kissell Permalink Email this Article postCount('450'); Category: digg_url = 'http://itotd.com/articles/450/the-hidden-lives-of-sloths/'; digg_skin = 'compact'; digg_title = 'The Hidden Lives of Sloths'; digg_bodytext = "All sloths have three toes, even the two-toed ones! That's just one of many surprising facts about these docile, slow-moving creatures often found in tropical rain forests."; reddit_url = 'http://itotd.com/articles/450/the-hidden-lives-of-sloths/';

14. ADW: Bradypodidae: Information Threetoed sloths weigh 3 - 5 kg; their bodies run around 0.5 m in length. Three-toed sloths are mostly tan or yellow-brown in color (with some http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information/Bradypodidae.htm

Overview News Technology Conditions of Use ... Home Kingdom Animalia Phylum Chordata Subphylum Vertebrata Class Mammalia Order Pilosa Suborder Folivora Family Bradypodidae Family Bradypodidae three-toed sloths Information Pictures Specimens Classification editLink('skunkworks/.accounts/200310302356') 2008/03/16 02:32:32.211 GMT-4 By Phil Myers Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Class: Mammalia Order: Pilosa Suborder: Folivora Family: Bradypodidae Members of this Family This family includes 3 Recent species in one genus, Bradypus. It is distributed through Central and South America, south to southern Brazil. Three-toed sloths weigh 3 - 5 kg; their bodies run around 0.5 m in length. They are covered with dense, long, shaggy fur made up of thick hairs with longitudinal grooves. Beneath the overfur is short underfur of finer texture. Some have unusually long neck hairs, which form a mane. Individual hairs are directed so that they point towards the ground when the animal hangs beneath a branch, perhaps helping it shed rain. Three-toed sloths are mostly tan or yellow-brown in color (with some contrasting markings on the face and mane), and the grooves in the individual hairs contain algal cells that give the coat a greenish cast. Bradypodids have a short and very stout tail. The forearms of three-toed sloths are longer than the hind limbs. Fore and hind feet have three enlarged, hook-like

15. Sloths The sloth is one of the strangest creatures on the planet. As their name implies, these animals spend a great deal of their time, around 18 hours each day, http://www.conservenature.org/rainforest/sloths.htm

Home Ecosystems Costa Rican Rainforest Orca Salmon Forest ... Contact Us qm_create(0,false,0,100,false,false,false,false); Costa Rica The Rainforest Tropical Biodiversity Layers ... Land Management qm_create(1,true,0,500,false,false,true,false); Sloths The sloth is one of the strangest creatures on the planet. As their name implies, these animals spend a great deal of their time, around 18 hours each day, sleeping or resting. In fact, moving at top speed, the sloth can only cover about 1 mile of terrain in 4 hours. The sloth is perfectly adapted to an arboreal, or tree-dwelling, lifestyle. It spends most of its life suspended upside-down, using curving claws on each foot that hook over and firmly grasp the overhead branches. Eating, sleeping, mating, and birthing is all done upside-down in the world of the sloth. The sloth is also quite agile in the trees, it can rotate its feet nearly 180 degrees to reach tree branches. This is very flexible, especially considering that a ballerina can only rotate her feet about 90 degrees at the most. On the ground, however, the sloth is very awkward due to its curved feet designed for tree grabbing and the fact that its limbs are too weak to support its own weight. This makes a sloth on the ground quite vulnerable to predators. Thus, it makes sense that the sloth is rarely, if ever, found outside of the trees. Many tropical biologists never get to see a sloth in the wild. Now, this doesn't mean that the sloth is exceedingly rare. Instead, it simply means that, like many rainforest mammals, the sloth is cryptic it blends in with its environment very well. Part of the reason that sloths blend in so well is that their shaggy fur harbors algae and mold that make the sloth green and inconspicuous in the forest. In fact, hordes of mites, beetles, and caterpillars will graze on the moldy hair of the sloth making the sloth a living salad bar!

16. SDNHM Fossil Mysteries Field Guide: Giant Ground Sloth Giant ground sloths have to be among the strangest mammals that ever walked on Earth. Their living relatives include the tree sloths, and more distantly the http://www.sdnhm.org/exhibits/mystery/fg_giantsloth.html

San Diego Natural History Museum Home Visit About Us ... Search Paramylodon harlani Harlan's ground sloth Family: Mylodontidae Time Pleistocene Epoch Place Western U.S. and Mexico In Our Region Fossil remains of Paramylodon harlani have been found from coast to coast in North America and occur locally in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park and at Rancho La Brea. Description Giant ground sloths have to be among the strangest mammals that ever walked on Earth. Their living relatives include the tree sloths, and more distantly the anteaters, and armadillos. Unlike living tree sloths, the extinct sloths were large, ponderous animals that presumably spent all their time on the ground. Three different genera Nothrotheriops Megalonyx and Paramylodon Paramylodon was the largest of the three, standing up to 6 feet tall (1.82 meters), and weighing up to 3500 pounds (1590 kg). Harlan's ground sloths had elongate skulls, broad and blunt snouts, and lobate cheek teeth with flattened crowns. Huge claws on their feet were a striking feature. Due to a special modification of the foot, the weight of the animal was actually borne by the heel bone and the outside edge of the foot. Because of this, scientists believe that ground sloths must have walked with a waddling motion. Due to a special modification of the foot, the weight of the animal was actually borne by the heel bone and the outside edge of the foot. Because of this, scientists believe that ground sloths must have walked with a waddling motion.

17. Buttercup Center - Sloth Rescue & Rehabilitation Center Here you can find information on the many sloths we have at the center, as well as information about adoption, how to find and contact us. http://www.ogphoto.com/slothrescuecenter/main.htm

18. Sloths 1 In the tropical rain forests of Central and South America, there lives the world s slowest moving mammal the sloth. Tree dwellers, sloths carry out http://edhelper.com/AnimalReadingComprehension_98_1.html

edHelper.com Animal Themes Endangered Animals Theme Unit Mammals Sloths Sloths Reading Level edHelper's suggested reading level: grades 4 to 6 Flesch-Kincaid grade level: Vocabulary challenging words: digest locomotion socialize upside-down digestive tropical homeland canopy hence entire species fate rate thus vegetation swimmers content words: South America Print Sloths edHelper.com subscriber options: Print Sloths (font options, pick words for additional puzzles, and more) Quickly print reading comprehension Print a proofreading activity Feedback on Sloths Leave your feedback on Sloths (use this link if you found an error in the story) Other Languages Spanish: Los Perezosos Sloths In the tropical rain forests of Central and South America, there lives the world's slowest moving mammal - the sloth. Tree dwellers, sloths carry out pretty much every activity in a suspended position high in the canopy. That's right! Sloths eat, rest, give birth, raise their young, and sleep upside-down in trees. They climb down to the ground only to use the bathroom (about once a week) or to find a different tree. So, exactly how slow do sloths move? When sloths are in trees, their average speed is merely 360-480 feet per hour. In the case of an emergency, sloths can "accelerate" to 900 feet per hour. When sloths are on the ground, they move awkwardly and cover just 52.80 feet per hour!

19. I Dig Sloths! At UI Museum Of Natural History Now teams at the University of Iowa, and across the country, are investigating to confirm that this was a mother and her babies, the first sloth family of http://www.uiowa.edu/~nathist/Site/sloth/index.html

Sloth main page Media coverage UI News releases Photo album ... Comments About 10,000 years ago, three giant sloths died in what is now southwest Iowa. The first, an adult Megalonyx , was discovered in 2001. The second, a juvenile specimen of the same species was discovered in the spring of 2006. In November 2006 the remains of a third, even smaller individual were found. Now teams at the University of Iowa, and across the country, are investigating to confirm that this was a mother and her babies, the first sloth family of its kind ever found, and discover what the Ice Age environment was like and why they died.... Working like crime scene investigators, teams at the University of Iowa are analyzing evidence found at the scene, including the bones and soil samples containing fossils of pollen, micromammals and vegetation. Check out Media coverage and News releases to find out what people are saying about the sloths. Look at the Photo album , check out the action Behind the scenes , and read the Expedition reports from each dig. Find out about the

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