Today's AotD goes out to Sarah Lowe, my cousin who is currently in Santiago, Chile.
Hoffman's two-toed sloth, named, along with Hoffman's Woodpecker, in honor of the German naturalist Karl Hoffman, is a South American species of Sloth.
Sloths are fascinatingly distinctive, and are basically impossible to mistake for any other animal.
Cool fact about Sloths you didn't know before today: their fur grows from belly-to-top, as opposed to normal (like a dog, top-to-belly). This is to protect them in the rain, when they are hanging upside down!
"Sloths come from one of the earliest mammalian orders, Xenarthra, and originated about 35 million years ago in the Late Eocene of South America."
That is pretty old for still-living mammals.
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