Two-toed sloth
Choloepus didactylus / Two-toed sloth
- Habitat
- tropical rainforest
- Continent
- South America
- Food
- Leaves, buds and insects
- Gestation/breeding period
- 11 months
- Mode of life
- Solitary
- Class
- Mammals
- Order
- Pilosa
Key facts
~ 80 cm
size
~ 11 kg
weight
~ 40 years
age
How endangered are Two-toed sloths?
by IUCN (Red List of Threatened Species)
- Not evaluated
- Data deficient
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Least concern Least concern - Near threatened
- Vulnerable
- Endangered
- Critically endangered
- Extinct in the wild
- Extinct
Did you know?
The sloth has a very energy-saving lifestyle and a low body temperature of 30 to 34 degrees Celsius.
Two-toed sloth on the zoo tour
