### animal | vertebrate | mammal | sloth:

Tree sloth
* Most tree sloths have genus
* are small, sleep creatures that seem to move in slow motion.
* have fossil genus

### animal | vertebrate | mammal:

Small mammal
* Many small mammals eat moth larvae, too
  - live in shelters or burrows underground
* Many small mammals use downed hollow logs or brush piles for cover or nesting sites
  - stored food to power thermogenic metabolism
* Most small mammals adapt to cold conditions
  - belong to families
  - cross paths
* Most small mammals eat grass
  - plants
  - seeds
  - feed on fruit
  - find foliage
* Most small mammals have impact
  - long noses
  - real impact
  - spots
  - ingest protein diets
* Most small mammals inhabit areas
  - mountain areas
  - play roles
  - weigh kgs
* Some small mammals attract cougars.
* Some small mammals become diets
  - pests
  - belong to weasels
* Some small mammals browse huckleberries
  - on foliage
  - red huckleberries
  - cause damage
  - dig burrows
* Some small mammals eat adult bullfrogs
  - crops
  - insects
* Some small mammals feed on acacias
  - have short lifespans
* Some small mammals hibernate over months
  - winter months
  - kill on roads
* Some small mammals live at elevation
  - high elevation
* Some small mammals live in areas
* Some small mammals live on hills
  - rocky hills
  - make up diets
* Some small mammals use burrows
  - dead wood
  - weigh ounces
* are also important food, especially voles, mice and shrews
  - generalist predators and gypsy moths make up a small component of their diet
  - important components of many terrestrial ecosystems
  - more subject to predation due to loss of ground cover
  - numerous
  - present as well as some deer, coyotes, and an occasional cougar
  - the primary means by which hypogeous fungal spores are dispersed
  - their natural prey base
* become the prey of choice during late fall and winter.
* consume conifer seeds, and also eat seedlings.
* dominate the marten's cuisine.
  - plums
* feed hungrily on berries to build up fat for the cold season ahead
* have characteristic ways of opening hazel nuts
  - very sensitive skin, so powerful shampoos can be harmful
* hunt at nights.
* including squirrels, porcupines, beavers, bears and deer inhabit the surrounding area.
* ingest diets
* may have difficulty.
* tend to be clean and lively.
* use a variety of tactics.
* vary enormously in their litter sizes.

Smaller mammal
* Many smaller mammals are year-round residents, and serve as prey for hawks and both types of eagles.
* are snowshoe rabbits and lemmings.
* seem to favor seeds.

Spiny anteater
* Some spiny anteaters have fur
  - pouches
  - thick fur
* lay a single egg in a temporary protective pouch on the mother's belly.

### animal | vertebrate | mammal:

Tamandua
* Most tamanduas have teeth.
* Some tamanduas eat ants.
* Some tamanduas have body temperature
* are anteaters
  - largely solitary and are active day or night
  - silky-blonde with black marks on the shoulders and around the eyes
* find food.
* have a prehensile tail that aids in climbing
  - claws
  - curve snouts
  - four clawed digits on the forefeet and five on the hindfeet
  - long snouts
  - measurements
  - problems
  - remain teeth
  - short, stiff, tan to brown hair
  - shorter fur and proportionately shorter muzzles than giant anteaters
* includes brains
  - breasts
  - cell membranes
  - cells
  - chest cavities
  - chests
  - corpi
  - cytoplasm
  - faces
  - heads
  - nuclei
  - pedal extremities
  - piluses
  - plasma membranes
  - rib cages
  - sections
  - skulls
  - sterna
  - vacuoles
  - vertebrate feet
* is an edentate
* live in different habitats
  - many different habitats
  - rainforests
  - the tropical rainforest
  - trees
* manufacture a potent musk in their anal glands which they use for marking territory.
* tetradactyla is present in a number of protected areas
  - relatively common species
* use claws
  - their powerful forearms for self defense