Awesome+sloths

__ AWESOME SLOTHS __ The sloth is a mammal. It lives in the canopy under the emergent layer. They lives on the branches. They hang upside down. The sloth eats leaves like bromeliad, brazil nut leaves and liana leaves. Algae grows on sloths. It helps hide from its enemies. One of its enemies is the harpy eagle. The sloth is adapted to the leaves in the rainforest and the Amazon river.

[] [] References Extraordinary Rainforests by Scholastic Tropical Rainforests by Jean Hamilton and Vicki Leon

=** Sloths **= Sloths live in the Amazon rainforest which is near South America. They spend most of there life in the trees and hang upside down. Sloths are a member of the monkey family. They live in the canopy layer which is right above the understory and below the emergent layer. Their predators are the Harpy Eagle, Jaguars, and Humans.They eat juicy fruit and plants that they find along the trees. It has adapted by learning to swim along the forest floor in the flooded forest. They are also mammals. Sloths are nocturnal which means that they are more active in the night than they are in the day. They only live to be 10-20 years old in the wild. Sloths have long sharp claws to help it grip onto to trees.

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