Assertion: sloth | /r/CapableOf | eat leaf
Facets:
value: mostly
type: DEGREE
value: from the trees
type: LOCATION
value: at night
type: TEMPORAL
value: exclusively
type: DEGREE
value: as their primary food source
type: MANNER
value: from lianas
type: LOCATION
value: from different positions
type: OTHER
value: for the most part
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: Sloths mainly eat the tree buds, new shoots, fruit and leaves, of the Cecropia tree.
text: They are folivores, meaning their are an animal which only feeds on leaves.
text: Because sloths eat only leaves for the most part, they don’t have a lot of energy to move quickly or very much at all.
text: They use their long claws to hang onto branches while they feast on the leaves that other animals can't reach.
text: It takes about 30 days for a sloth to digest one leaf.
text: and it can therefore take months for them to digest the leaves they consume.
text: Sloths are folivores, meaning they exclusively consume leaves, twigs and buds, and eat the leaves of close to 30 different tree and liana (woody vines) species.
text: These sloths feed upon the stems, leaves, buds, flowers, fruits and occasionally on the nectar of the flowers.
text: The sloths eat all the leaves from different positions.
text: Cecropia trees were nicknamed "sloth trees" because people thought sloths preferred their leaves; however, extensive observation has shown that sloths feed on
text: At night they eat leaves, shoots, and fruit from the trees and get almost all of their water from juicy plants.
text: They eat mostly buds, tender shoots and leaves, flowers and fruit.
text: Because sloths only eat leaves from a few trees, their diet is very low in nutrition.
text: They spend their days foraging and eating leaves, buds and twigs.
text: Sloths eat leaves which are hard to digest.
text: Sloths eat leaves, fruit and some select fresh green shoots (they’re not keen on crunchy twigs).
text: Sloths mainly eat the tree buds, new shoots, fruit and leaves, of the Cecropia tree.
text: At night they eat leaves, shoots, and fruit from the trees and get almost all of their water from juicy plants.
text: Sloths are omnivorous animals who like eating buds, leaves, fruits, insects and others.
text: At night they eat leaves, shoots, and fruit from the trees and get almost all of their water from juicy plants.
text: The sloth is technically a folivore, which is an herbivore that mostly eats leaves as their primary food source.
text: Sloths eat leaves, twigs, berries, fruits and the occasional insect or small animal.
text: They mostly eat buds, leaves, fruits, twigs and sometimes rodents and insects.
text: Sloths eat leaves!
text: Sloths eat leaves, mainly leaves found on the trees of Central and South America.
text: They mostly just eat leaves and flowers, which take a very long time to digest.
text: Sloths eat leaves, buds, insects and fruit.
text: When sloths eat leaves, they come out as little pellets at the end of the week," Moore said.
text: It eats leaves, tender young shoots, and fruit.
text: They mostly just eat leaves and flowers, which take a very long time to digest.
text: In 1749 when sloths were first described in the scientific literature they were labelled as “the lowest form of existence” – it is little surprising that sloths have been subject to such profound speculation and misinterpretation; “sloths are slow because they eat leaves that drug them”; “sloths are so stupid that they mistake their own arm for a tree branch and, grabbing it, fall”; “if you cut the head off a sloth, the heart will continue to beat for 15 minutes
text: This sloth only eats leaves from trees and lianas, but may feed on fifty individual trees of up to thirty species, eating leaves of different ages.
text: Inc. Xenarthran diets range from strictly insectivorous in anteaters, which eat only ants and termites, to strictly folivorous in sloths, which eat only leaves.
text: It is evident from the fact that these sloths prefer to eat the leaves which are on the topmost part of these trees where other animals of the jungle cannot even reach.
text: They feed on fruit, leaves, buds, and young twigs.
text: A sloth is an arboreal, solitary animal that lives in trees, feeds on leaves and moves very slowly.
text: Sloths are folivores, which means they exclusively feed on leaves.
text: Since they feed on leaves and live in trees, they do not have to run or chase prey animals.
text: Sloths feed on leaves, buds, and tender shoots from Cecropia trees.
text: Sloths feed on plants and leaves, although one of six types eats ants.
text: Sloths mostly feed on buds, leaves, and tender shoots.
text: Sloths are slow-moving arboreal mammals (inhabiting or frequenting trees) of the rainforests in South and Central America; they hang from branches back downward and feed on leaves and fruits.
text: Sloths are folivores, which means they eat buds, shoots, and leaves (
text: They hang on to the branches of trees using their long claws and feast on the leaves that cannot be reached by other animals.
text: While most herbivores process food in mere hours, it can take more than four weeks for a sloth to digest one leaf.