Slow And Silly Sloths

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Sloths are odd little creatures. They spend most of their lives upside down! Sloths eat upside down. Sloths sleep upside down. Sloths mate and give birth upside down. It is probably because of all this time spent upside down that the organs in sloths are in different positions then in most other mammals. Also, the hair of sloths curves in a different way then other mammals.

The main diet of sloths is tree leaves. So they rare called aboreal folivores. Sloths spend their whole life up in the tree tops. When they need to find more food then they climb to the ground to change trees. While on the ground sloths move incredibly slow.

Sloths are found in countries in South America such as Chili, Brazil and Peru.

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