sloth

     

Braypodidae Megalonychidae and see text

Trivia about sloth

  • To get this 3-toed animal to move faster, you might say, "Ai, wish you'd shake a leg!"
  • This slow-moving South American mammal eats, sleeps, mates & gives birth while hanging upside down in a tree
  • The name of this 2- or 3-toed mammal comes from Middle English for "slow"
  • The 2-toed type of this edentate averages 21-29 inches in length & has no tail
  • (Cheryl of the Clue Crew at the Page Museum in Los Angeles) The paw I'm holding belonged to a ground type of this, also one of the seven deadly sins
  • This word can refer to laziness, a 2-toed mammal, or a group of bears
  • Of the 7 deadly sins, the one that's also the name of an animal
  • Between 6 & 9 months of age, this "lazy" creature tries stand--well, actually, hanging on its own
  • Forest dweller seen here in...no...hurry
  • Hoffmann's two-toed &brown-throated three-toed
  • One of the slowest & sleepiest animals is the 3-toed species of this mammal that can sleep 16 hours a day
  • I'm this three-toed guy hanging around here; even if it wasn't a picture, I still wouldn't be moving so fast
  • As you might expect from its name, the 2-toed variety of this nocturnal animal is a real slow mover
  • The unau is a type of this slow-moving mammal that hangs around in trees
  • Ai--this slow-moving arboreal South American animal; its laziness is debatable
  • Laziness, or a slow-moving arboreal animal
  • When disturbed, this slow-moving 3-toed mammal lashes out with a sound from which it gets its S. Am. name, the Ai
  • It's an arboreal mammal of the Americas, & some have 3 toes
  • The name of this slow-moving mammal seen here comes from an Old English word for "slow"