How many fingers does a two-toed sloth have? Detailed answer

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How many fingers does a two-toed sloth have?

Either six or eight. The answer to the question why the sloth in question was called "two-toed" is known to some taxonomists. Interestingly, both two-toed and three-toed sloths have three toes on each "leg". "Two-toed" sloths differ from "three-toed" sloths in that the former have two fingers on each "hand", while the latter have three. Despite the obvious similarities between both species, three-toed sloths and two-toed sloths are not related. Two-toed is a little faster. Three-toeds have nine bones in their necks, while two-toeds have six. Three-toed sloths are caring parents, two-toed sloths are the embodiment of evil and vice. Three-toed sloths whistle through their nostrils. The two-toeds hiss with excitement.

Sloths are the slowest of all mammals. The maximum speed of their movement is just over 1,6 km / h, but, as a rule, the sloth crawls no faster than two meters per minute.

Sloths sleep for fourteen to nineteen hours and spend their whole lives hanging on trees with their backs down. They eat, sleep, mate, give birth and die upside down. Some move so little that two species of algae take root on them, which gives the sloth's coat a greenish tinge that also plays the role of protective camouflage. Some of the moths and beetles are perfectly equipped in the skin of a sloth.

The metabolism of sloths is also slow. It takes them more than a month to digest food, and large and small sloths go only once a week. They do this right under the trees they live in, and such reprehensible piles have their own romantic name: "dating places."

Like reptiles, sloths practice thermoregulation: they crawl out into the sun to warm up and crawl into the shade when they need to cool down.

All this slows down their already complicated lethargic process of digestion. During the rainy season, when sloths hang motionless in the foliage so as not to get wet, some of them perform a truly amazing feat: they starve to death with a full stomach.

Author: John Lloyd, John Mitchinson

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Why are trees decorated for Christmas?

The Christmas tree is a symbol of good spirit in the house. The Christmas tree is just such a tradition and such a custom, and not a religious rite. The tradition comes from Germany and dates back to the time when prehistoric people worshiped trees - especially evergreen ones. These trees did not die for the winter and their foliage or needles did not fall off, which seemed to be a symbol of immortality. Christians have changed the tradition, associating it with the veneration of Christ.

The northern countries - the peoples of Denmark, Sweden, Norway, where there are vast forests, have a tradition of bringing small trees into the house for Christmas. This tradition did not spread to England until the German Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha married Queen Victoria. Prince Albert installed the first decorated Christmas tree at Windsor Castle in 1841.

The first Christmas tree was brought to the New World by Hessian soldiers in 1776 during the American Revolution. Later, immigrants from Germany spread this tradition widely in the United States. Many Christmas decorations with Christian symbols, used today, were originally pagan symbols. In their religious ceremonies, the Romans used flowers, branches with leaves, ivy and laurel for decoration. Druids perpetuated the tradition of hanging mistletoe on the house. Ancient Celtic priests believed that this tree is a symbol of hope and peace.

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