### animal | vertebrate | mammal:

Sloth
* All sloths are solitary by nature, and come together only to mate.
* All sloths have three toes on each hind foot
* Most sloths are about the size of a small dog and they have short , flat heads
  - of a small dog and they have short, flat flat heads
  - belong to genus
  - consume food
  - display predatory instinct
  - drink water
* Most sloths eat diets
  - dry food
  - insects
* Most sloths hang from limbs
  - tree limbs
* Most sloths have brown fur
  - cervical vertebrae
  - claws
  - coats
  - eye sight
  - faces
  - full stomachs
  - habits
  - hooks
  - long claws
  - neck vertebrae
  - necks
  - offspring
  - pale fur
  - poor eye sight
  - shaggy fur
  - short necks
* Most sloths have tan coats
  - teeth
  - upper teeth
  - lead solitary life
  - live in trees
* Most sloths possess neck vertebrae
* Most sloths rely on mothers
  - powerful senses
  - retain moisture
  - survive for years
* Some sloths eat leaves
  - tree leaves
* Some sloths feed on fruit
  - grab arms
* Some sloths have chambers
  - chemicals
  - metabolism
  - nutrients
  - slow metabolism
  - toxic chemicals
  - infect with viruses
* Some sloths reach maturity
  - starve to death
  - stay in the same tree for years
* actually let algae grow on their hides so they can camouflage themselves better.
* also carry a highly specific community of commensal beetles, mites and moths.
* are confined to the wooded regions of tropical America, extending northward into Mexico
  - entirely nocturnal, meaning they eat at night
  - herbivorous
  - hunted by jaguars, harpy eagles, and people
* are located in amazons
  - asses
  - bad dreams
  - basements
  - books
  - brazils
  - cages
  - chairs
  - civil services
  - commercials
  - countrysides
  - dictionaries
  - encyclopedias
  - farms
  - gardens
  - habitats
  - mailboxs
  - museums
  - nights
  - picture books
  - rain forests
  - schools
  - soup
  - stories
  - transits
* are located in tropical forests
  - rainforests
  - tropics
  - universes
  - wildernesses
  - work
  - worlds
  - mammals,so they reproduce sexually
  - medium-sized mammals that live in the Central and South American rainforests
  - more closely related to anteaters than armadillos
  - mortal sin
  - nocturnal animals, who spend their time hanging upside down on the tree branches
  - nocturnal, they are most active at night and sleep all day
  - omnivores - meaning that they eat both meat and plants
  - part of the Animalia kingdom
  - prey upon by jaguars , large birds of prey , snakes and humans
  - related to anteaters, a group of mammals known as edentates
  - reluctance
  - slow moving and spend most of their lives in the trees hanging upside down
  - so slothful that moss grows on their fur
  - solitary animals and only come together to mate
  - some of the slowest-moving animals in all of nature, just because they are lazy
  - strictly herbivorous, and are primarily leaf eaters
* are the slowest mammals in the world
  - moving mammals, who spend their life moving from one tree to another
  - thought to be distantly related to animals like anteaters and armadillos
  - too slow to catch their own food, which is pretty sad considering they mainly eat plants
  - tree dwelling mammals that pass their time sleeping and eating
  - tree-dwelling mammals with tiny heads and long arms
* are tropical mammals that live in Central and South America
  - rainforest animals that are spread in South America
  - unique to the Americas - nothing like it exists in Asia or Africa
  - vegetarian
* are very good at swimming
  - hairy animals and there body has to be able to hold a lot of nutrients
* breed at any time during the year.
* can account for as much as two-thirds of the mammalian biomass in their range
  - feed in all positions, even hanging upside down
  - only live in limited place
  - swim well
* climb trees.
* consume dry food
* defend themselves by biting and lashing out with their arms and formidable claws.
* deposit dungs.
* display instinct
* do almost everything hanging upside down in trees, including mating.
  - leaves, flower petals and other plant products
  - the leaves of around fifteen to thirty different kinds of trees
* eat, sleep and mate high above the ground.
* frequently form bonds with humans.
* give birth to their babies with their stomach facing up
  - within the tree canopy
* hang from branches by their claws as they feed on leaves
* have a four-part stomach that slowly digests the leaves with bacteria
  - large, four-chambered stomach, like a cow
  - offspring once every year
  - ability
  - an image of laziness and inactivity
  - curve claws
  - features
  - fewer muscles than any other mammal
  - flexibility
  - fossil genus
  - heal ability
  - long, shaggy fur that they groom carefully every day
  - one young
* have pale brown fur
* have poor eye sight
  - preference
  - ranges
* have short jaws with teeth, the tail is short or absent
  - simple rootless molars which grow throughout life
  - small molars which they use to chew up their leafy food
  - two coats, a softer inner coat and an outer coat that is longer and coarser in texture
* have unique ability
  - very slow digestive systems because of what they eat
* hold onto tree branches with strong, curved claws that are on each of their four feet.
* includes brains
  - breasts
  - cell membranes
  - cells
  - chest cavities
  - chests
  - corpi
  - cytoplasm
  - nuclei
  - pedal extremities
  - piluses
  - plasma membranes
  - rib cages
  - sections
  - skulls
  - sterna
  - vacuoles
  - vertebrate feet
* is hesitation
* lead life
* live alone or occasionally in pairs
  - here, as do tapirs, jaguars and ocelots
  - rainforest such as South America and some parts of Asia
* live in the rainforests of South and Central America
  - tropical rain forests of central and south America
  - off of leaves, buds, and tender shoots
  - on trees, and never remove from one until they have stripped it of every leaf
* mate in trees and give birth to their young in trees.
* move only when necessary and even then very slowly
  - so slowly their movements are nearly indiscernible
* now live in trees, eating leaves and moving with painful slowness.
* only come down on the ground about once a week to defecate and urinate.
* prefer flourescent lights that flicker on slowly and take a while to light up completely
  - sleeping while curled into a ball in the fork of a tropical tree
* show preference
  - strong preference
* sometimes let out a cry or hissing sound
  - remain hanging from branches after death
* spend almost all of their lives in the trees
  - most of their lives hanging upside-down from tree branches
  - the majority of their lives in the trees
* sport claws.
* stay up in trees most of the day, almost never coming down.
* survive events
  - stages
* take two weeks to digest their food.
* use their surrounding to adjust their body temperatures.
* usually eat leaves from the trees they find in South America.
+ Sloth, Physical description: Xenarthrans
  * Most sloths are about the size of a small dog and they have short, flat heads. Their hair is grayish brown but, at times they look grey-green in color because they move so slowly that tiny camouflaging algae grow all over their coats. They have hooklike claws on their arms and legs to keep them attached to trees.