You see, we Sloths are only half the population of Kruvny," he went on.
It seems that our only salvation is a sense of humor, so we give you "The Sloths .
The sloths are all inhabitants of tropical America--dwellers in the great forests of Guiana and Brazil.
The Slothsbelong to this group of mammalia; not that they have the slightest resemblance to the ant-eaters in any respect, but simply, as before stated, because they want the cutting teeth.
We ought to place the Megatherium between the Sloths and the Anteaters.
If you turn to South America, where, at the present day, we have great sloths and armadilloes and creatures of that kind, what do you find in the newest tertiaries?
What cause, or causes, led to the extermination of the giant sloths and armadillos is still a matter of speculation.
These monster sloths inhabited South America during the latest geological period, known as the Pleistocene.
It is therefore very probable that while the mammoth and the mastodon were roaming over North America, giant sloths and armadillos were monarchs of the southern continent.
As in the living sloths and armadillos (edentata[51]), there are no teeth in the fore part of the jaw.
Two or three outlying representatives of the ground-sloths had wandered into North America; but elsewhere there were no animals in any way resembling them.
In South America were many extraordinary creatures totally different from one another, including ground-sloths as big as elephants.
The great camels, striding noiselessly on their padded feet, passed the clumsy ground-sloths on their way to water.
These little nocturnal burrowing edentates are the puny representatives of the gigantic Glyptodon of Pleistocene times, and the sloths are the dwindling shadows of the lordly Megatherium.
The sloths are certainly ruminating animals, as they have four stomachs; but they are deficient in all the other external and internal characters which belong to all animals in that class.
AN] With respect to my other assertion, that the sloths have no teeth, I readily admit my mistake and feel myself indebted to M.
We have already observed, that it seems as if all that could be, does exist; and of this the sloths appear to be a striking proof.
This difference in the construction of the sloths supposes a greater dissimilitude between these two species than there is between the cat and dog, both of which have the same number of ribs.
Hence they are as little capable of walking on the ground as apes with their hands, or sloths with their hooked claws, which are calculated for climbing.
All these creatures, from the sloths to the aard-vark, are commonly associated together in an order which is termed Edentata.
Nearly allied to the sloths were certain huge beasts, now extinct, which formerly inhabited the same Continent--such as the Megatherium and Mylodon, which rivalled or exceeded our largest rhinoceroses in bulk.
Beyond remains of species closely allied to or identical with the existing forms, the sloths and anteaters appear to be unknown in a fossil state.
Externally sloths are clothed with long coarse, crisp hair; the head is short and rounded, and the external ears inconspicuous.
A remarkable feature connected with sloths is the development of a green colour in their hair, due to the growth of an alga.
In Sloths (Bradypodidae) the sutures become early obliterated, the cranial portion of the skull is rather high, and the facial portion very short.
The Slothshave long slender arm bones; the humerus is nearly smooth and has a very large ent-epicondylar foramen in Choloepus, but not in Bradypus.
The length of the tail varies greatly from the rudimentary condition in Sloths to that in the Pangolins, one of which has forty-six to forty-nine caudal vertebrae--the largest number in any known mammal.
In the Megatheriidae as in the sloths the neural spines are all directed backwards, and in the lumbar region additional articulating surfaces occur, better developed than are those in Bradypus.
In the Sloths the leg bones are all long and slender.
This is especially marked in the Armadillos and Megatheriidae, and to a less extent in the Sloths and Aard Varks.
In the sloths (Bradypodidae) and the Megatheriidae, there are five pairs of teeth in the upper and four in the lower jaw.
In the Sloths the pes much resembles the manus, being long and narrow, but in both genera the second, third and fourth digits are well developed.
In the Sloths the pelvis is rather weak and slender, the obturator foramina are very large and the ischia do not meet in a symphysis.
In the Sloths and Bats enormously developed claws occur, forming hooks by which the animals suspend themselves.
We must also consider that these sloths had to board themselves on the way, and that most of their time had to be taken up getting food and water.
Two sloths had to make the journey from South America.
The Subspecific Status of Two Central American Sloths BY E.
Sloths are very odd-looking creatures, and if you were to see one of them hanging from a bough in its native forests you would find it rather hard to believe that it was really an animal at all.
On the placentation of Sloths (Choloepus Hoffmanni).
In the Sloths the placenta approaches the discoidal type (Turner, No.
In Mice the canines are wanting, in the Sloths the front teeth, and in the Ant-eaters actually all.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sloths" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
