Linnaeus's Two-toed Sloth

Pennington Hobbs Speech 6 March 2013 All about Sloths Have any of you ever seen or heard of something about a Sloth? (Attention Getter) Well, actually a lot of people don’t know anything let alone one thing about a Sloth. (Audience Adaptation) Whenever I say to someone that my favorite animal is a Sloth, they rarely know what they look like or anything about them. (Credibility) Today, I will be informing you of all the things you could know about Sloths. (Thesis) I will tell you about where they live

Sloth Sloths are living things because in order for them to survive they must get energy, move and grow, reproduce, protect themselves and adapt to their environment. Everyone knows sloths are slow, but did you know sloths move so slow algae can grow on their fur? Sloths are slow moving mammals. They are native to Central and South America. They live in the trees of the rainforests. They provide a habitat for many other organisms that live in their fur. Some of the organisms that live in the

ARTICLE ABOUT SLOTHS Sloths (/ˈsloʊθ/ sloh-th, /ˈslɒθ/ slo-th)[2] are medium-sized mammals belonging to the families Megalonychidae (two-toed sloth) and Bradypodidae (three-toed sloth), classified into six species. They are part of the order Pilosa and are therefore related to anteaters, which sport a similar set of specialized claws. Extant sloths are arboreal (tree-dwelling) residents of the jungles of Central and South America, and are known for being slow-moving, and hence named "sloths". Extinct