Three-Toed Sloth Profile, Facts, Pictures
Three-Toed Sloth Profile, Facts, Pictures
Photograph by Joel Sartore
NationalGeographic.com
All sloths are built for life in the treetops. They spend nearly all of their time aloft, hanging from branches with a powerful grip aided by their long claws. (Dead sloths have been known to retain their grip and remain suspended from a branch.) Sloths even sleep in trees, and they sleep a lot—some 15 to 20 hours every day. Even when awake they often remain motionless. At night they eat leaves, shoots, and fruit from the trees and get almost all of their water from juicy plants.
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