Pygmy Ground Sloth

The Amazon Rainforest is home to many different sloths. The pygmy three-toed sloth lives in the Amazon Rainforest and on an island in Panama. In as short as 20 years, due to deforestation, fires, and global warming, the Amazon will reach its tipping point, quickly transforming into a dry savanna. The sloths will have to adapt to this new environment to stay alive. However, if this change does occur as fast as 20 years, they will not be able to adapt fast enough to survive. If they don’t go extinct, The future it will become a ground sloth but stay the same size unlike the prehistoric ground sloths. The Pygmy Ground Sloth or the Bradypus Pygrodrosis, will have lighter and shorter fur to more easily camouflage with the grass and shrubs, an extra muscle near its ankle to give more control over their claws, and some smaller adaptations.