Sloths coloring pages

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Today's new drawing is of a Baby Sloth.

Juvenile Sloth climbing a Tree

This is a baby sloth.  You could also call it a Juvenile Sloth.  This drawing is of a 3 toed sloth.  They live in tropical forests and spend most of their lives hanging from branches.  This juvenile sloth, in the new drawing up top, is climbing up a tropical tree.  Sloths are very slow-moving and all living species of sloths are smaller animals and live in trees. 

Thousands of years ago there were giant sloths that were larger. Some of these Gaint Ground Sloths were as big as a woolly mammoth.  Giant Ground Sloths went extinct 11,000 years ago.  These Giant Sloths could defend themselves with long claws powered by huge arms. 

Modern sloths have terrible vision.  They move very slowly because it is their survival strategy.  They eat leaves from the Cecropia Tree.  The sloths digest these leaves very slowly in multichambered stomachs.  

Sloth hair or fur is a place where algae lives and that helps the sloth stay camouflaged in trees.  There are even Sloth Moths that live in the sloth's fur.  These organisms all seem to have a symbiotic relationship with each other.  The moths help the algae grow and the algae helps the sloth stay camouflaged.  

Two-toed Sloths are omnivorous but three-toed sloths are pretty much pure herbivores.  The three-toed sloths have an odd adaptation where they climb down to the ground, under their tree, and defecate after digging a hole.  Then they cover the hole up.  This acts as fertilizer for the tree. 

NOTE:  This new drawing is found, in printable form, by clicking on the Animals button and then scrolling to the bottom of the list of drawings.  New drawings are on the bottom.  Below are two older drawings of sloths that will be located, in printable form, by looking further up the list. 

Three Toed Tree Sloth

Giant Ground Sloth