Habitat Mountainous tropical rainforests. The basic color of the sloth's coat is gray or brown, however, because of the humid atmosphere, a tinge of green algae may grow on the outer layer of hairs, effectively camouflaging them from danger. Behavior Sloths spend a considerable amount of time hanging upside down in the tree canopy and even sleep in this position at times. Sloths rarely descend to the ground. The vast majority of their time is spent feeding.
Sloths are strictly herbivorous, and are primarily leaf eaters.
When sloths do descend to the forest floor, it is only about once a week to defecate. Reproduction Sloths are solitary animals that appear to have no fixed breeding season. Following a gestation period of about 1 year the single young is born. Soon the infant begins to feed from the same trees as its mother. The male does not participate in rearing the young.