Voorbeelden van sloth

• The hemoflagellates of sloths, vermilinguas (anteaters), and armadillos.

• Big game, including bison, mammoths and ground sloths, also were attracted to these water sources.

• Sloths have very poor eyesight and hearing, and rely almost entirely on their senses of touch and smell to find food.

• Although they are not true ruminants, sloths have three-chambered stomachs.

• Osteoderms are uncommon in mammals, but do occur in many xenarthrans (glyptodonts, armadillos, ground sloths).

• Lianas also provide access routes in the forest canopy for many arboreal animals, including ants and many other invertebrates, lizards, rodents, sloths, monkeys, and lemurs.

• Three-toed sloths are predominantly diurnal, although they can be active at any hour of the day, while two-toed sloths are nocturnal.

• Three-toed sloths do not have a mating season and breed year round.

• Male three-toed sloths are attracted to females in estrus by their screams echoing throughout the canopy.

• Mammals are rare but there are still wildcats, wilddogs, sagui monkeys, sloths, skunks, deer, capivara and bats.

• The sloth's stomach was able to digest coarse and fibrous food.

• On the island, the park protects forests, mangroves, monkeys, sloths, caiman, crocodile, and 28 species of amphibians and reptiles.

• Fossils of ground sloths have been found in the area.

• Despite sloths' apparent defenselessness, predators do not pose special problems: sloths blend in with the trees and, moving only slowly, do not attract attention.

• The ground sloths do not constitute a monophyletic group.