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These nocturnal mammals are solitary living. They sleep approx. 12,5 hors the day. Mostly they stay in the treetops of trees with lots of liana. They hold unto the branches with their long legs and sharp sickle-shaped claws. They feed on leaves and branches. Their long light brown shaggy fur is often coloured green by algae, what gives them good camouflage. The fur grows against the body, what helps also for camouflage and like this, the water can better drain from the hanging sloths. Mostly many parasites are living in the fur of the sloth .
Adult animals have a body-lenghts of 60-65 cm and weigh up to approx. 9kg. All sloths have a very slow system. The digestion ,all organs are working slowly, the whole metabolism is slow and they move nearly in slow motion, what makes them energy-saving animals. Sloths adapt their body temperature to the environmental temperature. Their slow motion is good camouflage, like this they can't be discovered in the branches, as they look from far like dead leaves or even like termite-nests.

Two-toed sloths are short-sighted and also don't hear very well. But they do have an excellent sense of taste.
If it has to be, two-toed sloths can mouve pretty fast climbing around the trees. Two-toed sloths come down from their trees to "go to the toilet" once a week. That's when they are in danger, as they move very slow and clumsy on the ground, what makes them an easy prey. Sloths are ecxellent swimmers.
Young two-toed sloths hold on to the belly of their hanging mother.They don't leave their mother during the first months. After this they begin to hang by themselves close by their mother, but they return on the mothers belly very often. Only after a year, the young sloths are getting independent.

Three-toed sloths are a bit smaller than two-toed sloths. Adults grow up to max.5kg . Also this smaller sloth prefers to hang back-side down in the tree-tops. A typical mark is the fair face-mask, that is also colouring part of the front. Their rough fur has a green shimmer from the algae. Three-toed sloth has the ability to turn around its head 180°.