Sloths Research Paper

The Story Of My Search I love sloths! I love the way they move so slow no matter what they do they are always in slow motion, to the way they chomp their food when they eat, I love sloths. I picked to do this project on sloths because as a child I always found them interesting, so growing up my interest in them grew as I started to learn more about them, for an example sloths can sleep up to 15-18 hours a day and as a teenager with depression I slept a lot, so I always thought it was neat that sloths and I had kind of the same interest because they sleep a lot and so do I. Also one day in my freshman algebra class my teacher was talking about a squared plus b squared equals c squared, but in the middle of his lesson out of the complex blew …show more content…
After that I looked up what types of sloths there were and how much they weighed I found out that the two-toed sloth is slightly bigger the three-toed sloth and that they are about the size of a small medium dog around twenty-three to twenty-seven inches and they weigh around 17.5 to 18.75 pounds. I also learned that there was once an accident sloth that would grow to be as big as an elephant and that they roamed mostly around North american, but sadly became extinct around 10,000 years ago. I then began to look up a sloths habitat and found out that Sloths mostly live in trees because they can use there long claws to hang onto branches in the trees while they eat leaves and other animals that other pretoderors around them can’t reach nor can they see them. Sloths could also be on land they don’t spend their whole life in a tree, but it is very uncomfortable and difficult for them because their claws are between eight to ten cedimorers which makes it hard for them to walk around. But If a sloth does happens to be on the ground they have to dig their front claws into the ground while using their front legs to pull themself around which leaves there tummy dragging on the

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