ryan sloth report
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My Friend the Sloth
By Ryan O’Rourke
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What do they look like?• Short, flat heads
• Big eyes• Long legs
• Short snout• Tiny ears
• Stubby tails
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Baby Sloths
• Sloths only give birth to one baby a year!
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Where do they live?
• Central and South America, although they used to live in
North America, but human hunting has
contributed to their extinction as well as the last Ice Age!
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The Ice Age• It was so cold during the Ice
Age that sloths slowly died away.
Hi! I’m Sloth from the
movie Ice Age!
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Slowwwwww...&Sleepy!
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What’s an Omnivore?
• Sloths are omnivores, which means they eat everything from lizards to leaves!
• Their slow metabolism helps them live off of little amounts of food
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What’s With Those Big Claws?
• Claws are the sloth’s only natural defense
• They use them to swipe at their attackers to scare them away or injure them
• They also use their claws to hang from trees!
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Yuck…. Algae and Moss?• The word “sloth”
comes from the word meaning
“slow.” In fact, some sloths move so
slow that moss and algae grow in their
hair! • During the rainy season, algae also
grows on the sloth, which helps to
camouflage them
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Upside Down
• Sloths spend most of their lives hanging upside down!
• In fact, they eat, sleep, mate, and give birth upside down! Because of this, their internal organs are in different positions from other mammals.
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Predators• Jaguars
• Harpy Eagles
• Humans
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Lifespan
• A sloth’s lifespan is between 30 to 40 years, with the older ones living in zoos
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The End!