Brown-throated sloth

Bradypus variegatus
Three-toed sloth (Bradypodidae)

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Grey to brown thick fur with round head, long arms and legs with each 3 long clawed toes. The fur is sturdy with soft under hair where alga and moth live, and sometimes the Yellow-headed Caracara picks them off directly.

It sleeps 15-18 hours a day, lives in trees, eats leaves and visits terra one time a week to relieve. Young continuous breastfeed and soon learn to eat themselfes. By licking the food from the mother they learn what leaves are edible.

⇔ hbl. 42-80 cm, tl. 3-9 cm

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