Although sloths are the world’s slowest mammal they are great swimmers sometimes when they are in the treetops they will fall into a pond a can swim there way out of there pretty fast.
Sloths are the slowest animal so why wouldn't they have the slowest metabolism can take us humans 12-48 hours to digest and get rid of …show more content…
The sloths circulatory system is very simple the have a left and right ventricle and they have an atrium the blood come to the right atrium and and then it passes through the left ventricle and then from there the blood is pushed through the aorta and then to the rest of the body.really used for eating the sloth breaths slowly and use little oxygen.
The common name for a sloth is folivora the eight levels of classification there domain is eukarya and their kingdom is animalia and their phylum is chordata their class is mammalia order Xenarthra their family is Bradypodidae genus is Bradypus species is Bradypus tridactylus. They are the size of a small house cat or small dog they weight about 8-10lbs they are about 18in long two toed sloths only have two toed in the front and 3 in the back.
They live 20-30 years in the wild but a little bit longer in captivity since the sloth doesn't do as much as other animals there size they don't get warded down as fast so they can live longer and not have health