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  2. Sloth - Wikipedia

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    They sometimes remain hanging from branches even after death. On the ground, the maximum speed of sloths is 3 m (9.8 ft) per minute. Two-toed sloths are generally better able than three-toed sloths to disperse between clumps of trees on the ground. [33] Sloths are surprisingly strong swimmers and can reach speeds of 13.5 m (44 ft) per minute. [34]

  3. Hoffmann's two-toed sloth - Wikipedia

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    As a result, sloths rely almost entirely on their senses of touch and smell to find food. [12] Two-toed sloths hang from tree branches, suspended by their huge, hook-like claws. The clinging behaviour is a reflex action, and sloths are found still hanging from trees after they die. The sloth spends almost its entire life, including eating ...

  4. Ground sloth - Wikipedia

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    Ground sloths are a diverse group of extinct sloths in the mammalian superorder Xenarthra. They varied widely in size with the largest, belonging to genera Lestodon, Eremotherium and Megatherium, being around the size of elephants. Ground sloths represent a paraphyletic group, as living tree sloths are thought to have evolved from ground sloth ...

  5. Three-toed sloth - Wikipedia

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    The three-toed or three-fingered sloths are arboreal neotropical mammals. [2] They are the only members of the genus Bradypus (meaning "slow-footed") and the family Bradypodidae. The five living species of three-toed sloths are the brown-throated sloth, the maned sloth, the pale-throated sloth, the southern maned sloth, and the pygmy three-toed ...

  6. Linnaeus's two-toed sloth - Wikipedia

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    Two-toed sloths live in ever-wet tropical rainforests that are hot and humid. They tend to live in areas where there is a lot of vine growth so they can easily travel from tree to tree in the canopies of the forests. [7] They mainly eat leaves, but there is lacking data on the extent of their diet due to their nocturnal lifestyle and camouflage ...

  7. Brown-throated sloth - Wikipedia

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    Brown-throated sloths inhabit the high canopy of the forest, where they eat young leaves from a wide range of different trees (primarily in the genus Cecropia), as well as flowers and fruits. [13] They do not travel far, with home ranges of only around 0.5 to 9 ha (1.2 to 22.2 acres), depending on the local environment.

  8. 135 Interesting Facts for Kids and Adults to Blow Your Mind - AOL

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    Check out all the fun facts below. Related: 150 Useless Facts That You Just *Have* To ... Sloths can hold their breath for up to 40 minutes, while dolphins can only hold theirs for around 10 ...

  9. Two-toed sloth - Wikipedia

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    Based on the morphological comparisons, it was thought the two-toed sloths nested phylogenetically within one of the divisions of Caribbean sloths. [11] Though data has been collected on over 33 different species of sloths by analyzing bone structures, many of the relationships between clades on a phylogenetic tree were unclear. [12]