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Baby sloths learn what to eat by licking the lips of their mother. [48] All sloths eat the leaves of Cecropia. Two-toed sloths are omnivorous, with a diverse diet of insects, carrion, fruits, leaves and small lizards, ranging over up to 140 hectares (350 acres).
Depending on when in the excretion cycle a sloth is weighed, urine and feces may account for up to 30% of the animal's body weight. [25] They get most of their fluids from water in the leaves that they eat but sloths have also been observed drinking directly from rivers. [citation needed]
The leaves and buds are also eaten by sloths as their main source of food, [9] but many herbivores avoid these plants; most Cecropia spp. are myrmecophytes, housing dolichoderine ants of the genus Azteca, which vigorously defend their host plants against getting eaten.
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The leaves may be eaten safely by livestock, but the stems and especially the carbohydrate-rich roots are much more poisonous. Animals familiar with eating the leaves may eat the roots when these are exposed during ditch clearance – one root is sufficient to kill a cow, and human
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Sloths will consume the algae growing on their fur through the process of autogrooming, and the algae provides the sloths with carbohydrates and lipids, as an additional nutrition source. [19] Sloths' greenish color and their sluggish habits provide an effective camouflage; hanging quietly, sloths resemble a bundle of leaves.
After leaving his car windows open overnight, the man documented his adorable sloth encounter in a now-viral video