0 unwillingness to work or make any effort: --
The report criticizes the government's sloth in tackling environmental problems.
2 an animal that moves very slowly and spends much of its time hanging by its feet from trees --
The ground sloths do not constitute a monophyletic group.
Despite sloths' apparent defenselessness, predators do not pose special problems: sloths blend in with the trees and, moving only slowly, do not attract attention.
Fossils of ground sloths have been found in the area.
On the island, the park protects forests, mangroves, monkeys, sloths, caiman, crocodile, and 28 species of amphibians and reptiles.
The sloth's stomach was able to digest coarse and fibrous food.
Mammals are rare but there are still wildcats, wilddogs, sagui monkeys, sloths, skunks, deer, capivara and bats.
Male three-toed sloths are attracted to females in estrus by their screams echoing throughout the canopy.
Three-toed sloths do not have a mating season and breed year round.
