Two-Toed Sloth Choloepus Didactylus Phylum: Cordata Class: Mammalia Order: Xenarthra Family: Megalonychidae Genus: Choloepus Species: Didactylus

Description

Sloths are perhaps most famous for their ability to live and carry out many life functions in an upside down manner. Two-toed sloths have two long claws on their fore limbs and three claws on the hind limbs. . Sloths are covered with tan to greyish brown hairs. Apparently, the sloths hair is specially designed to allow algae to effectively colonize. Greenish camouflage is the most obvious advantage although it is a possibility that the sloths may somehow gain nutrition through absorption or consumption of the colony.

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Average Statistics

Diet

Sloths eat primarily vegetation such as leaves and fruit.

Offspring

A single young is born following a lengthy gestation in excess of eleven months and clings to the mother. Maturity is reached between three and a half to four years.

Relationship with Humans

The sloth is not endangered, and due to it's remote homeland, rarely interacts with man.

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