Sloth Sex Position
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Sloth Sex Position
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Sloths are mysterious animals—people usually only see them sleeping or resting on their trees. It is rare for anyone to witness sloths in the act of mating, and thus there is little information about sloth reproduction.
What there is to know on the topic, however, can be found in the Slothopedia!
Male and female three-fingered sloths can be easily distinguished once they’ve reached sexual maturity, as males have a distinctive orange and black stripe on their backs called a speculum. The speculum fur is shorter and downier and covered with a slick oil that gives the fur in that area rich yellow and orange colors.
Females have a much more subtle stripe on their backs, and may not have any stripe at all. They typically have a dark line surrounded by lighter fur in the same spot as a male would have a speculum.
The exception to this is the endangered three-fingered maned sloth, which does not have a speculum. The sex of maned sloths cannot be determined without an exam . Both sexes have a shaggy black mane around their necks. T he appearance of the mane is unique to each individual, and it is not currently obvious if there is any sexual dimorphism in regards to its appearance.
In two-fingered sloths, distinguishing between males and females is notoriously difficult. T his has led to some embarrassing mistakes at zoos and rescue centers, where two sloths thought to be of the same sex have been put into the same enclosure, only to produce a newborn baby some months later!
It is not possible to determine the sex of a two-fingered sloth without a very detailed physical examination , as they do not have any external secondary sex characteristics like the three-fingered sloths do.
This kind of exam is only possible under veterinary supervision and generally is also under anesthetic for the safety of the examiner. Two-fingered sloths are more aggressive and slightly faster than three-fingered sloths.
Someone who is experienced in the science of sloth anatomy can clearly sex two-fingered sloths in such an examination, but many institutions lack knowledgeable personnel with the required expertise.
Many animals mate only during certain times of the year. This mating season is related to the length of the days, temperature, latitude, and food availability, among other variables. By only mating during a specific season, the females will give birth at an optimum time of the year to increase their offspring’s chances of survival.
There are mixed reports as to whether sloths have a mating season. In areas where the climate is favorable year-round, females come into estrus monthly. However, in regions with distinct dry and wet seasons, the sloths may have their fertile periods such that the birth of their young coincides with the most favorable conditions.
Very little research has been done on the topic as it relates to sloths. Researchers suspect the mating seasons of sloths differ depending on the region—Central and South America have several microclimates which make mating seasons hard to determine.
In the South Caribbean of Costa Rica, sloths mate all year round and do not follow distinct seasons. In areas with more extreme seasonal changes, researchers have reported some breeding patterns, but these have yet to be fully investigated.
A female three-fingered sloth will enter estrus once a month for approximately seven days. During this time her activity levels will increase by about 200% (that’s a lot for a sloth!) and she will emit high-pitched vocalizations to attract the attention of nearby males.
These vocalizations, or “screams”, sound like bird calls or shrill whistles. She will do this for eight to ten days every single month, with the vocalizations increasing in frequency until she is screaming every 10 to 15 minutes.
The male three-fingered sloths get very excited when they hear this call and will go in search of the female making it.
Two-fingered sloths don’t vocalize; instead, they secrete pheromones from their genital glands , which they rub all over trees and branches for potential mates to follow.
Some researchers observe that females will come down to go to the toilet every day while in heat. It is thought that this is to do with pheromone secretion and her feces will advertise her status to males in the area.
Once a female sloth is in heat she will wait for the males to come to her. All male sloths in the area will move through the canopy towards the female, and if more than one male responds, they will fight over mating rights.
Often the aim of a sloth fight is to knock the opponent out of the tree. The victorious male will move forwards and take up a position in the same tree as the female.
These fights can be surprisingly vicious, and the losing male will signal defeat by “crying”—another high-pitched vocalization that sounds similar to the female estrus call.
Despite two-fingered sloths having been bred successfully in zoos, sloth copulation itself is rarely witnessed and there is little known about the act. Footage has shown sloths mating in all different orientations; hanging upside down, front to back, face to face, hanging precariously from branches… sloths do it any way they like.
Sex is the only thing sloths do quickly. Copulation lasts less than a minute. After it is over, the dominant male will stay nearby for several days, mating with the female frequently and fighting off any other males that wander too close.
This diligence takes its toll, however, and being a sloth, he also needs to take regular naps. When the dominant male is sleeping it opens a window of opportunity for any males that have been waiting nearby to sneak in. The female will mate with these other males while the dominant male is sleeping.
The gestation period for two-fingered sloths is 11 months, after which the female will usually give birth to one baby. Twins are very rare.
No one knows the gestation period for three-fingered sloths, as they have not successfully reproduced in captivity. Preliminary estimations of wild three-fingered sloths indicate the gestation period is probably much shorter than the two-fingered sloths, at around six months.
Like most mammals, sloths are ´promiscuous’. The male will mate with as many females as he can find, and the females will mate with all the males who are able to approach her.
Sloths of the same sex can form close bonds with each other when raised together in captivity, but there have been no reports of same-sex mating acts in the wild.
Three-fingered sloths are very delicate creatures and do not thrive in captivity. Most three-fingered sloths are very likely to die within a few months of being captured and do not live long enough or are healthy enough, to breed.
This is a double-edged sword for the species. On the one hand, it prevents the breeding of three-fingered sloths in captivity for the purpose of exploitation or the pet trade, however, it also reduces the options for species conservation if three-fingered sloths lose their wild habitats.
Two-fingered sloths breed relatively well in captivity. However, the females do not show any visible signs of pregnancy, so without an ultrasound, it’s nearly impossible to tell when a female is expecting.
Sloths are famous for their unusual and bizarre bathroom habits – they will only relieve themselves once a week and can lose up to a third of their body weight in one sitting! Furthermore, they will only do it on the ground. This weird weekly routine remains one of the biggest mysteries surrounding sloth behaviour. The likely explanation is that it’s all about communication and reproduction.
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In their native range in Central and South America, two sloth species are at risk: Brazil's maned three-toed sloth is vulnerable, and Panama's pygmy three-toed sloth is critically endangered. The four sloth species conservationists rank as being at the least risk include the Linné's two-toed sloth (above).
When one of Earth's slowest mammals mates, "apparently it's very quick."
How slow are sloths, generally considered Earth's slowest mammal? Distance moved in a day: often just a few yards. Time at rest: up to 20 hours out of each 24. Metabolism: so slow that the tree-dwelling herbivores climb down to defecate only about once a week. That's for the best, because their ungainliness on the ground makes them vulnerable to cars, humans, and other animals.
The sloth skeleton is suited for reclining or hanging upside down in trees. That's how sloths eat, sleep, give birth—and mate. Though the rain forest exhibit at Baltimore's National Aquarium has welcomed four sloth babies, the staff has never seen a sloth birth or copulation, says curator Ken Howell: "I think of them as having private lives." When seclusion does lead to sex, he says, "apparently it's very quick."
Well, yes and no, says Mark Rosenthal of Animal Magic, an exotic-animal rescue program in Michigan. With a smartphone and lucky timing, Rosenthal was able to capture "a very rare video of two of our sloths actually breeding" while hanging suspended from a branch in their habitat.
His halting narration describes the protracted scene: "The male keeps trying ... the girl ... is receptive ... He's going to try again ... Those of you watching, bear with me—they're sloths ..." (Read more about the three-toed sloth and Linné's two-toed sloth .)
Because his audience includes children, Rosenthal edited the video to finish before the sloths did. The eventual consummation, he says, "was upside down. And it didn't take very long."
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Hoffmanns two-toed sloth (hind foot is also in photo)
Scientific Classification:
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Mammalia
Order
Pilosa
Suborder
Folivora (leaf-eater)
Family
Bradypodidae
(three-toed)
Genus
Bradypus (4 species)
Family
Megalonychidae
(two-toed)
Genus
Choelopus (2
species)
The word "sloth" means "inclined to laziness and inaction", and the amazingly placid and extremely slow moving sloth would certainly appear to live up to its name.
The sloth is almost entirely arboreal, spending over 95 percent of its existence high up in the trees of Central and South America.
With the help of extremely specialized claws, sloths eat, sleep, breed and give birth all while dangling from the tallest branches of cecropia trees. Sloths come in two and three toed varieties and are related to anteaters, who have similarly formed long arching toenails.
Sloths exist on a diet almost entirely of leaves, which is such an inferior source of nutrition and energy that it shapes their whole lifestyle. They end up spending almost every waking moment quietly munching on leaves with little time for grooming or any other activities.
The lack of grooming leads the sloths dense coat to actually grow algae during the rainy season, giving them a greenish tinge.
Within the sloths belly is a sea of micro bacteria that help to breakdown and eventually digest what they eat. The process takes so long that a leaf consumed in August might not be eliminated until October.
With so much effort exerted to extract a minimum of nutrients, the sloths metabolism is amazingly slow- the slowest in the entire animal kingdom. - Sloth Facts
All of the sloth species have numerous amazing adaptions, not only for an arboreal life high in the trees, but also for a life lived in an inverted position.
Sloths do not build nests, instead they find a leafy area and simply fall asleep hanging completely upside down with all four limbs grasping a branch.
Three toed sloths rear legs, feet and claws are shorter than the front and both two-toed and three-toed sloths have three toes on the rear legs.
There is a suggestion that all sloths are three-toed because the front "toes" are actually "fingers".
The claws on the front feet are about 4 inches long, and can be used as a weapon when the sloth is cornered. The claws on all four limbs curve in toward the wrist creating four large, natural hooks. Muscle power is not required for the sloth to grip branches , in fact sloths have about 30% less muscle mass than other mammals of equal size.
It is the construction of the claws and limbs, and a natural retraction of the ligaments that creates the "gripping reflex" of the sloth. A sloth spends approximately 85% of its life hanging completely upside down, mainly because it requires no effort.
The entire sloth is designed for a life of inversion. All of its internal organs, including the heart, liver, spleen and stomach, are rearranged inside its body cavity so nothing gets crushed or obstructed.
Even the fur on the sloths torso and limbs grows in the opposite direction than it would in other animals with the follicles pointing up the arms and away from the belly so the hairs guide rain water and debris to the ground.
As an example of the effortlessness with which sloths dangle from the highest limbs, it is not uncommon for a sloth to pass away and remain securely hooked to its final branch. - Sloth Facts
So we know that the sloth is incredibly slow. It takes about a month to digest a leaf, about a minute to move 15 feet and about 6 hours to make it to the bathroom and back.
But there is one thing that sloths do with amazing speed, and that one thing is sex.
Sloth females come into heat about once a year and they let the whole neighborhood know it. Normally demure, a lady sloth in heat screams continually until a male finds her or her season passes.
She generally does not leave her own trees and just waits for a suitor to arrive. Then, once a gentleman makes his way up to her, it is basically first come first served without any posturing or foreplay.
In fact, the whole experience from first contact to completion of deed may only be a matter of seconds. In some species the male may stay for a day or two and there may be several matings, but in other species the male departs right after a single 6 second act of intercourse.
The mother sloth gives birth to one pup after about 4 months of pregnancy. The baby is born fully furred, eyes open, and generously clawed. It is basically a miniature adult without the fauna developed in its fur yet, of course.
The pup clings to its mothers belly most of the first few months of life and begins to munch on leaves at about 2 months old.
A baby sloth usually leaves its mother after a year or so, sometimes just moving a tree or two away, but generally has no contact with her once independent. - Sloth Facts
Surprisingly, three-toed and two-toed sloths are actually not closely related.
The three-toed and the two-toed sloths are from two different families of animals , with their last known common ancestor having existed over 30 million years ago. That creature, most probably, lived on the ground.
So, although they appear to be very similar, they are better described as animals that evolved in the exact same way due to habitat, rather than being closely related. This is called convergent evolution and is a result of creatures changing in the same ways due to exposure to the same circumstances, and arriving at a very similar result that appears to be more closely related than it actually is.
In fact, the two-toed sloths actual closest relative is the now-extinct ground sloth. The ground sloths, including the gigantic megatherium or giant ground sloth existed throughout the
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