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Giant Ground Sloth
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The Giant Ground Sloth
By Daniel, Collin W3
Introduction
Introduction
Name and Meaning
1) Giant Ground Sloth
2) A giant sloth thats walks on land
Subtopic 1
Names
3) No they do not have any specific or special names for gender, babies or group.
4) Megatherium americanum
Subtopic 2
Anatomy/Appearance
Anatomy
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The animal looks like a bear with a long neck.
Ten feet tall
It looks like a tall long bear
On average it weights about 750 lbs
It has fur and claws
Their teeth are flat so they can crush leaves
They have a long furry tail
Neck is long
Looks liek a rectangle
4 medium length legs
2 eyes 4 legs neck head
No it does not molt as it grows.
Picture
Pictures
Locomotion
Walk on their hind legs.
Locomotion
How?
The Giant Ground sloth can move in many ways. They mainly and only walk on their hind legs, they move less than three meters (9.8 feet) per minute, they move pretty slow. Another way is that they climb trees to get food and hide from predators. This is important to their survival because they need to be able to hide from their predators in trees.
More info on how they move
Picture
Uses their claws to climb trees
How they climb trees?
Diet
Subtopic 1
Joshua tree fruits, desert globemallow, cacti, and yucca, along with other desert plants.
They scavenged around the dessert and plains.
It is an Herbivore
It climbs up trees to get to the fruit.
It is closer to the bottom but in the middle because of its behaviors and eating.
Subtopic 2
Habitat
Origination
Argentina, Uruguay and Bolivia.
subtropical rain forests, semi-arid and arid regions, temperate plains in the Pampas, and cold subantarctic in the south.
Habitat
Map of where they lived
Map
Adaptions
Adaptations
Adaptions
Being able to eat cactus without hurting its trought or mouth.
Claws for being able to lach onto trees
Longishneck so it can reach down or up for food.
Picture
LIfe Cycle
Life Cycle
They start out staying with their mothers for a while then leave, and after a couple years they become fully matured and go out to reproduce.
Life cycle
Picture
Behavior
Behavior
Behavior
More information
The Megatherium was a slow-moving herbivore like living tree sloths; however, it did not climb trees and spent much of its life on the ground. It has been speculated that it had the ability to rear up on its hind legs to forage and defend itself against predators.
Defense/Offense
Defense / Offense
Defense
The front feet bore large claws for grabbing branches and helping defend itself from large predators. It had a long, slender skull with a narrow mouth that might have supported a long prehensile tongue. They don't attack only defend
Enemies
Enemies
More Info
More Info
Ground sloths juveniles would have been vulnerable to the large cat predators (Smilodon, Homotherium, Panthera atrox) and perhaps Dire Wolves. These animals are now extinct following with the ground sloth
Species Survival Status
EXTINCT
SSS
The facts
They went ectinct because of the increase in human population and hunting.
Facts
Something special
They used to be used in folklore for being nightmare creatures.
Something Special
Classification
Their classification is a mmmalia
Family of megatheriidae
Genus of Megatherium
Classification
References
-NationalGeographic
-Prior Knowledge - Collin
- nps.gov
-Wikipedia