Sloth

April 2018 Sloths Could you imagine that the next day you wake up that sloths have become extinct? Sloths have different characteristics that help them survive in the wild. Sloths are slow for different varieties of reasons. This is what helps them survive and live out their daily lives. Sloths are very cool because they have many different physical characteristics. Sloths have very long claws. Their claws help them hook on branches so they can hang. Sloths also have algae in their hair. This helps them to be camouflage from their predators. Since sloths are omnivores they have peg like teeth to eat leaves and branches. Their fur grows on the opposite direction from the stomach towards the back. This allows the rain to drain off their body while they are hanging in the trees. Sloths also do not pose a vertebrae so they can rotate their head 270 degrees. It helps…

Sloths are mostly known for their lazy behavior that consists of eating, hanging and sleeping in trees. Most of the time they are not seen doing ‘noteworthy’ actions but contrary to what many people may think, sloths do have something interesting about them even if all they do is sleep and eat. While cheetahs are the fastest mammals on earth and chameleons can blend into the background, sloths have an interesting ecosystem nestled within their fur. Insects, bacteria and other organisms all…

Sloths By: Amanda Adey Have you ever wondered what a sloth eats, or what it does to get food? Maybe you wonder what it’s habitat is like? Maybe you’ve wondered about why they have green fur? Perhaps you’ve wondered just how big are they, really? Sloths can be interesting animals, if you want to learn more about them, keep reading on. A sloth’s diet consists of mainly leaves but also buds, fruit, twigs and sometimes insects and rodents. The sloth can also feed from over 50 different trees…

The Pygmy three-toed sloth is an endangered species of the South American Amazon rainforest, and there is estimated to be less than 100 individuals remaining. The sloth has pale grey-brown fur and a tan-colored face with a distinctive dark band around the eyes. On the sloths fur you’ll see a greenish tint which is actually a unique species of symbiotic algae, which helps them camouflage. Little information is know about the life span of the pygmy three-toed sloth, but most species of sloths live…

Even though The Canterbury Tales is considered one of the most important works of literature it is incomplete, out of the 120 stories that were supposed to be written only twenty-four of them were ever published. The author, Geoffrey Chaucer, wrote The Canterbury tales taking place in April of the thirteenth or fourteenth century. The story is set around the time of the pilgrimage to see the saint st. Thomas a Becket, a variety of people agreed to travel together and to make the trip less…

Every morning it’s always the blaring of trumpet horns and the pounding of drums ringing in your ears. There’s the shrilly yet beautiful sounds of flutes and the smooth noise coming from saxophones. Every morning it’s always music and noise in the band room, and that’s what I love about it. The band room, one of the most well known room’s in the entire school. You can always hear music coming from there at any part of the day. The people in the band community are always up for playing a tune…

The seven deadly sins are lust, gluttony, greed, sloth, wrath, envy, and pride. Lust is an uncontrolled desire, gluttony means to consume too much, greed it to never be content, sloth is to be physically lazy, wrath is and uncontrolled rage, envy is to be jealous, and last but not least pride which means to think your better than others in other words your ego is to big but pride can be used as good or bad depending on how you use this terms. There were seven deadly sins that were used though…

Sloth, Working Hard or Hardly Working As Ronald Regan once said, “I've heard that hard work never killed anyone, but I say why take the chance?” I think he was defining the word sloth. The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines it as: disinclination to action or labor: indolence, or the quality or state of being lazy. It is the resistance to work and the unwillingness to act. While the antonym of sloth is drive and industrious, Reagan understood that idleness, laziness, and indolence or in my…

December 19, 2017 8 Amazing Facts About Sloths Introduction: Deep in the forest lives the slowest creature on earth, the sloth. Sloths can live up to 10 years. They are commonly found in South America and spend their life in the forests. Sloths are a mystery to many people. Even though they are slow and seem like friendly animals, how much do you really know about sloths? 1. Sloths are slow because of their diet Imagine yourself eating salad for the rest of your life! Sloths…

Sloths Sloths are medium sized animals. Two toed sloths have only two fingers and three toed sloths actually have three toes. Sloths are part of the order Pilosa so they are related to anteaters and armadillos. Sloths are tree dwelling animals, they are found in the jungles of Central and South America. A sloths scientific name is Folivora. A brown throated sloth usually sleeps for around 15 to 18 hours. A pale throated sloths gestation period is 183 days. A brown throated sloth weighs around…