Monday, June 29, 2015

Two Toed Sloth

As its name implies, have only two toes on their front paws, although, like other sloths have three toes on the hind legs. They are also three-toed sloths. The mother gives birth to a young, while hanging upside down. Two-toed sloths spend most of their lives upside down in the trees. She can not walk, so they prefer to hand to hand, which is extremely slow in one. As primarily nocturnal, is her hair, which grows to mix green algae, their main source of protection depends on the temperature of your body at least partially on the ambient temperature, can not keep warm shake, do as others metabolic rate of mammals because of its exceptionally low power and reduced. 

 Depending on the cycle of excretion lazy weighed urine and faeces to 30 percent of the body weight of the animal, which is about 6 kg (about 13 pounds). They have small teeth, incisors or canines constantly growing and not true total lack of homology with other mammalian dental formula.


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