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Sloths are cool and interesting animals. They are excellent climbers; in fact, they learn to climb from their parents. they also learn what food to eat by watching their mother eat. Sloths don’t really learn anything (except climbing and what to eat) from their parents because they, well, don’t really do anything. Pretty much all sloths do is eat, sleep, and hang upside down.

Sloths have some interesting things about them, one of them is their long nails or claws. Another interesting thing about sloths is that they have algae growing on their fur. The algae helps them survive because then they blend in with the leaves and grass.

There are two kinds of sloths: 1) the two toed Sloth (like in its name it has two nails or claws), and 2) the

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