Sloths

The animal for my project is a sloth. They use many adaptations to survive in the rainforests. They use their fur to camouflage themselves, their long arms and curved feet to climb branches of trees, and defend themselves with their powerful teeth and long claws. These are all adaptations that sloths use in the present. In the next several centuries sloths will live in rainforests that have developed into flooded wetlands. Sloths will be one of the few species that survived. They will no longer be prey to other animals. However they will be forced to assimilate to a very different habitat, due to climate change and deforestation. They might even have to evolve back into their prehistoric state (sloths used to live in the sea). Only this time many may drown due to temperature changes and their metabolism (sloths lose their energy when they’re not in their adapted weather).