The sloth spends most it's life hanging
upside down from branches in the canopy. It is so slow that in one
day it would have
moved to another tree. It sleeps about 18 hours a day. A sloth can
climb and also swim but it can't walk. It relies on smell and touch cause
it can't see very well and it has bad hearing . It drags itself along
with its claws. Insects graze a green algae that's growing on the
sloth's fur. The algae provides camouflage. One sloth had 170
moths and 978 beetles living in its fur. |
