Two-fingered sloth

Sloths can swim very well.

Tweevingerige luiaard

  • regenwouden van Centraal-Amerika en het noorden van Zuid-Amerika

    Habitat

  • bladeren en fruit

    Food

  • 20 jaar

    Lifetime

  • 4 tot 8 kilo

    Weight

  • 53 tot 73 cm

    Length

  • 1

    Number of youngsters

  • 6 maanden

    Wear time

  • veilig

    IUCN Status

  • ja

    EEP?

Wist je dat?

  • 15

    hours a day, that's how long a sloth sleeps

  • 6

    different kinds of sloths are there

  • 2

    meters per minute a sloth travels through the trees

Quietly

A sloth eats almost only leaves. There is not much energy in that. Therefore, it does everything quietly. A sloth sleeps about 15 hours a day. When it moves, it does so very slowly. Sloths spend most of their lives hanging upside down in a tree. About once a week, they climb down very slowly to defecate on the ground.

Green hair

A sloth's hair grows from its belly to its back. This is because he almost always hangs upside down on a branch. Its hairs are very rough. This allows algae to grow on his fur. So it looks like he has green hair. This is good camouflage for when you live in the rainforest.