tags: sloths, humor, streaming video
This is a streaming video that shows you a little bit about those forgotten mammals, sloths. These animals are native to Central and South America. They belong to the families Megalonychidae and Bradypodidae, in the taxonomic order Pilosa. They are omnivores, eating insects, small lizards and carrion whan they can find it, but their diet mainly consists of buds, tender shoots, and especially leaves. Because they subsist primarily on leaves, which have little nutritive value and are difficult to digest, sloths have multichambered stomachs filled with symbiotic bacteria that break down leaves for them. It may a sloth take as long as one month or more to digest a meal.
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