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Name: Student Number:

Course: Life Science Professor name:
Ada Paulina Vázquez Candanedo
Module: 1 Activity: Evidence 1
Date: 10/02/2022
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Sloth (Choloepus
hoffmani)
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TYPES OF GROWTH STAGES TYPES OF GEOGRAPHICAL SPACE

REPRODUCTION FEEDING AND HABITAT
Some species mate at Birth: Built for life in the trees, Three-toed sloths Modern sloths live in Central
the same time each year. sloths mate and give birth in eat mostly plants, America and South America.
The maned sloths breed the treetops and often upside making them But their ancestors lived in
any time of year. Three- down. During the precarious herbivores. They North America. In Central and
toed sloths have only birth, the expectant mother prefer leaves from South America they prefer the
one baby at a time after pulls the infant from between the leafy cecropia tall trees in rain forests, cloud
six months of pregnancy, her hind legs while other tree. Two-toed forests, and mangrove forests.
whereas two-toed sloths sloths aid in cleaning the sloths eat both Each sloth moves about several
are pregnant for 12 upside-down infant and plants and small trees throughout the course of
months. These newborns ensuring that it does not fall. animals. They their lifetime. But many spend
live with their mothers Newborn sloths are small—the enjoy leaves, fruits, their whole lives in one tree
for five months. They average new Hoffmann’s two- small lizards, and where they were born. These
cling to their mothers’ toed sloth weighs 14 ounces— insects. These animals sleep, eat, mate, and
bodies during this time. and they cling to their nearly mammals raise young while hanging from
Sometimes they fall to stagnant mother’s belly for a have multi- tree limbs. The only reason the
the forest floor and their period of weeks or even chambered animal leaves the treetops is to
mothers prove are months before they have the stomachs that use the bathroom once weekly,
either too lazy or too strength to move on their own. contain many find a mate or expand their
slow to retrieve them. As bacteria that break territory.
a result, the babies die Adolescence: Young sloths rely down plant
not from the fall, but on their mothers for nurturing, materials. They
from being abandoned protection and food; male digest food very
where they landed. sloths do not assist in child- slowly. It takes
rearing. After the infant stage from one week to
of belly-to-belly nurturing, the a month for them
young sloth begins to feed on to digest most of
foliage itself. A juvenile maned their meals. These
three-toed sloth (Bradypus meals also prove
torquatus) remains with its low in nutrients, so
mother for up to a year, while they do not get
she carries it during her energy from most
feeding and travel. The brown- of their food.
throated three-toed sloth Scientists believe
(Bradypus variegatus) stops this lack of energy
clinging to its mother after is why they move
weaning, around 4 months, so slowly.
though the mother still aids in
learning and exploration.

Adulthood: All sloth species

sexually mature between the
ages of 2 and 5 years. A female
Hoffmann’s two-toed sloth
reaches sexual maturity at the
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age of 3 and males mature

between the ages of 4 and 5. A
full-grown, sexually mature
Hoffmann’s two-toed sloth
weighs between 8 and 18
pounds and measures around
25 inches long. The maned
three-toed sloth matures a bit
earlier than its cousin. Males
and females alike become
sexually mature between the
ages of 2 and 3 years, when
they reach full-grown adult
size and their reproductive
organs have developed
accordingly. Smaller than the
two-toed sloths, an adult
maned-three toed sloth
weighs roughly 8 pounds and
measures around 18 inches
long. Life expectancy varies
slightly among sloth species,
but most live on average 20 to
30 years in the wild and a bit
longer in captivity.

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SLOTH’S FOOD CHAIN

Well, the sloth occupies the primary consumer, because he is the first who
eats the primary producer.

QUESTIONS
Describe the importance of the species in their environment. Sloths are
their own biodiverse ecosystems. These cute mammals, oft subjects of
viral web videos, host habitats of their own, supporting moths, beetles,
cockroaches, fungi and algae in their fur and on their skin. Some of these
organisms are even endemic to the sloth—meaning they occur only on a
sloth, and nowhere else!

Explain whether climate change or any environmental issue threatens

their reproduction. It doesn’t interrupt their reproduction or produce any
issue, it can produce an issue in their early growth killing them faster
when they are alone.
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How would the loss of the species from their habitat affect humans? Well
it would affect us in the bugs enviroment making that the food chain
completely breaks, and all of the species, including us, Will be affected.

CONCLUSION
Well, I learned that sloths are fascinating, they are interesting and Good
animals, they help the food chain a lot, and they are so beatiful and Good
animals, they are known by being slow, but they might be known now by
being so important animals.