Brown-throated Sloth

Brown-throated sloths have curved claws that provide a powerful grip and allow sloths to hang from branches. Their arms are longer than their legs. The reason that sloths are so slow is to help predators to not see them. They can’t walk efficiently, but are great swimmers. Sloths have small tails and peg-like teeth for eating leaves and occasionally fruit or birds’ eggs, lizards and insects. Sloths currently live in the Amazon Rainforest. In a thousand years the Amazon Rainforest might turn into a woodland forest. The sloths would need to learn how to walk because in a woodland forest there isn’t as much water for them to swim in. The trees in a woodland forest are more spread out, so sloths would need to use their curved claws to swing and stay on the trees. They would also need to eat more animals to stay alive.