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Sloths—the sluggish tree-dwellers of Central and South America—spend their lives in the tropical rain forests. They move through the canopy at a rate of about 40 yards per day, munching on leaves, twigs and buds.
Sloths are a Neotropical group of xenarthran mammals constituting the suborder Folivora, including the extant arboreal tree sloths and extinct terrestrial ground sloths. Noted for their slowness of movement, tree sloths spend most of their lives hanging upside down in the trees of the tropical rainforests of South America and Central ...
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Sloth, tree-dwelling mammal noted for its slowness of movement. All six living species are limited to the lowland tropical forests of South and Central America. They can be found in the forest canopy sunning, resting, or feeding on leaves. Sloths are classified with anteaters and armadillos in the magnorder Xenarthra.
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Sloths live solitary lives and travel between trees using canopy vines. They depend on the health and survival of Central and South American tropical forests.
It’s true, sloths are incredibly slow-moving mammals, often hanging motionless on branches between feeding and sleeping, which can be up to 15 to 20 hours every day. But there’s a perfectly valid reason why - it’s a survival strategy that works.
