THREE-TOED SLOTHS

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THREE-TOED SLOTHS

• By
• Mrs. Bonneville

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HABITAT

• Central America to Northern Argentina

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APPEARANCE

• Sloths have gray or brown hair.
• They are covered with blue-green algae.
• They grow 11/2 - 2 1/2 feet.
• The sloth has three toes.
• A sloth has a small tail.

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FOOD

• Leaves
• Buds
• Water from juicy leaves and dew drops

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Predators Defense against predators

• jaguars
• ocelots
• harpy eagles
• large snakes
• people

• use of claws
• roll up in a tight ball
• camouflage in the tree

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FUN FACTS

• Sloths eat, sleep, mate and give birth upside
  down.
• They sleep about 15 hours per day.
• Sloths live 30-40 years.

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WHAT DID YOU LEARN?

• Where does a three toed sloth live?
• What does a sloth look like?
• What does a sloth eat?
• Name two predators of a sloth.
• How does a sloth defend himself?
• Name one thing a sloth does upside down?

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WORKS CITED

• http//www.cde.ca.gov/standards/
• http//www.postdiluvian.org/
• http//www.angelfire.com/co3/catscan/slothpics.htm
  
• http//edtech.kennesaw.edu/traci/animals/animals.h
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• http//www.srl.caltech.edu/personnel/krubal/rainfo
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