In Cauhita we visited a sloth sanctuary. Here are ten fascinating facts about sloths:
- There are two kinds of sloth you should know of – three toed sloth and toe toed sloth (and to generalize over sloths is blasphemy amongst sloth-enthusiasts)
- It takes a month for food to pass through the alimentary tract of a sloth
- A sloth only defecates once a week, and comes down to the ground to do so
- Sloths are afraid of coming to the ground
- Sloths are better swimmers then they are walkers
- Three-toed sloths are the only mammal with 9 vertebrae and can turn their head 270 degrees
- Two-toed sloths are more intelligent than three-toed sloths (there is no real evidence to support this argument)
- Two-toed sloths like dog food
- You only need to bath a sloth once. But you can choose to bath it as many times as you like. In fact, they like taking baths
- Sloths only sweat through their nose
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