Gamboa Rainforest, Panama We enjoyed some time with the sloths that are in a Rehabilitation Center. They reminded me of gymnasts as they moved around and were not as slow as I anticipated. The sloths did not live in cages, but climbed around on frameworks provided for them. I guess they are not ambitious enough to run away as there was no confinement. Sloths eat a leaf-based diet. Our next stop was a butterfly garden. The butterflies were beautiful, but difficult to photograph.
Two-toed and three-toed sloths. Climb on frames and are not caged. Two-toed sloths and three-toed sloths are not closely related.
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| Sloths are slow movers because they have long arms combined with small, narrow shoulder blades which restrict their movements. |
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| Close, eating the same leaf. There are four species of three-toed sloths. They will spend their whole lives in the trees and will only go to the forest floor to defecate once a week. |
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| Even closer, eating the same leaf. |
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| Two-toed sloth should be called two-fingered sloth as they have two fingers on their front limbs. They have three toes on their hind limbs. They weigh about four to eight kg. |
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| Two-toed sloth - sloths can hang upside down and save energy as they don't need to balance on a branch. |
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| Sloths can sleep up to 18 hours a day. |
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They look like gymnasts when they move and are not as slow as I imagined. Two-toed sloths tend to move faster than three-toed sloths.  |
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