10 Interesting Facts About Sloths You Might Not Know
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Did you know there are 6 species of Sloth? These are split in two families: two and three-toed sloths.
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Sloths move so slowly some species have algae that grows on them? What's even better that Algae actually helps them keep hidden from predators.
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Three-toed Sloths have arms that are nearly 50% longer than their legs, can you imagine a human that looked like that?
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Sloths can swim!
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Food! Baby Sloths learn what's tasty Sloth food by licking the lips of their Mother.
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Sloths are potty trained, Three-toed sloths jump off their tree when they need to go to the toilet, some have even been observed to dig holes and use the same spot over and over!
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Two-toed Sloths live on average up to 20 years in the wild, 30 in Captivity.
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There's a type of Moth fittingly called a Sloth Moth, these live solely in the fur of Sloths!
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With those long arms Sloths are actually amazing swimmers, not bad for a creature that spends most of its live traversing the tree tops.
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Old Timers. Sloths can live easily to 40 years old in the wild. The oldest living Sloth is Paula who lives in Halle Zoo, Germany. Paula is a Guinness World Record Holder and at 50 years old is going strong.
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My daughter absolutely loves sloths, we brought her a toy sloth years ago, it goes everywhere with her. She even took it on our cruise holiday to Norway!