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Three-toed sloth The three-toed or three-fingered sloths are arboreal neotropical mammals. They are the only members of the genus Bradypus and the family Bradypodidae. The four living species of three-toed sloths are the brown-throated sloth, the maned sloth, the pale-throated sloth, and the pygmy three-toed sloth. In complete contrast to past morphological studies, which tended to place Bradypus as the sister group to all other folivorans, molecular studies place them nested within the sloth su

The three-toed sloth is the slowest-moving land mammal. On the ground, the sloth moves at an average speed of 0.037 m / s, considerably slower than the giant tortoise, which walks at 0.076 m / s . After 12 minutes of walking, how much further would the tortoise have gone relative to the sloth? | Numerade

What Do Sloths Eat? Sloth Diet, Food, and Digestion — The Sloth Conservation Foundation

Three-toed sloth eating and climbing in its natural habitat, the tropical forest canopy | Britannica

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