Linnaeus's Two-toed Sloth

Sloths By: Amanda Adey Have you ever wondered what a sloth eats, or what it does to get food? Maybe you wonder what it’s habitat is like? Maybe you’ve wondered about why they have green fur? Perhaps you’ve wondered just how big are they, really? Sloths can be interesting animals, if you want to learn more about them, keep reading on. A sloth’s diet consists of mainly leaves but also buds, fruit, twigs and sometimes insects and rodents. The sloth can also feed from over 50 different trees in the American Tropical Rainforest. Although, the cecropia tree is their favorite. The cecropia tree will be defended by Azteca Ants which the sloths will ingest. Since the cecropia tree will be defended by Azteca Ants they go to different trees and…

April 2018 Sloths Could you imagine that the next day you wake up that sloths have become extinct? Sloths have different characteristics that help them survive in the wild. Sloths are slow for different varieties of reasons. This is what helps them survive and live out their daily lives. Sloths are very cool because they have many different physical characteristics. Sloths have very long claws. Their claws help them hook on branches so they can hang. Sloths also have algae in their hair. This…

Galapagos islands where he studied finches and discovered that these finches had all originated from one species of finch and eventually became differentiated leading the species to split, based on their environment. However evolution doesn’t just occur, it takes centuries or even millennia to take place and it isn’t the species that adapt to the environment, the environment selects those who survive. This means that only species with favored characteristics for that environment would be allowed…

Sloths are mostly known for their lazy behavior that consists of eating, hanging and sleeping in trees. Most of the time they are not seen doing ‘noteworthy’ actions but contrary to what many people may think, sloths do have something interesting about them even if all they do is sleep and eat. While cheetahs are the fastest mammals on earth and chameleons can blend into the background, sloths have an interesting ecosystem nestled within their fur. Insects, bacteria and other organisms all…

The Pygmy three-toed sloth is an endangered species of the South American Amazon rainforest, and there is estimated to be less than 100 individuals remaining. The sloth has pale grey-brown fur and a tan-colored face with a distinctive dark band around the eyes. On the sloths fur you’ll see a greenish tint which is actually a unique species of symbiotic algae, which helps them camouflage. Little information is know about the life span of the pygmy three-toed sloth, but most species of sloths live…