Sloth, related to slow, literally means "laziness", and their common names in several other languages (e.g. German: Faultier, French: paresseux, Spanish: perezoso, Portuguese: preguiça, Romanian: leneș, Finnish: laiskiainen) also mean "lazy" or similar.

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2025年3月20日 · Sloth, tree-dwelling mammal noted for its slowness of movement. All six living species are limited to the lowland tropical forests of South and Central America. They can be found in the forest canopy sunning, resting, or feeding on leaves.

There are two main species of sloth, identified by whether they have two or three claws on their front feet. The two species are quite similar in appearance, with roundish heads, sad-looking...

: any of various slow-moving arboreal edentate mammals (genera Bradypus and Choloepus) that inhabit tropical forests of South and Central America, hang from the branches back downward, and feed on leaves, shoots, and fruits compare three-toed sloth, two-toed sloth

The sloth’s hair is a living, breathing home to many different organisms, from microbes, insects to fungi and algae. Even the entire lifecycle of some moth species, including Cryptoses Choloepi Dyar , relies almost exclusively on sloths.

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Sloth hair is specially adapted to allow the sloth to be a miniature, mobile ecosystem. Just as the forest is home to sloths, each sloth is home to a symbiotic variety of plants and animals. Sloth fur contains micro-cracks which trap moisture for over 80 different kinds of algae and fungi.

The sloth got its name from its slow movement, it is not lazy, just slow-moving. The sloth is the slowest mammal on Earth. In total, there are six species of sloth. Sloths belong to the families ‘Megalonychidae’ and ‘Bradypodidae’, part of the order ‘Pilosa’.

2023年10月12日 · A sloth’s long, shaggy fur hides a secret world of algae, fungi, and insects – turning every sloth into a real-life, moving ecosystem. 37 Their hair is finely grooved either vertically or perpendicularly, and those crevices are home to anywhere from four to six different types of algae, up to 16 different types of fungi, and various types ...