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The Sloth Mandible

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The tip of the sloth mandible is a spout- shaped and there on the side of the jaw is a foramen. They have a single set of crowned, open rooted teeth. The forelimb is equal in length to the hind limb. Most sloths have hands and hand claws that appear well suited for the manipulation of foliage and the robust tail seen in most fossil sloths suggests that they may have sat in a tripodal posture when eating. The phalanges are not separately mobile, being bound by ligaments, so the claws from one functional whole. Its muscles work by means of contraction. They contain more retractor muscles than the extensor muscles. A retractor muscle, in sloth makes them cling onto the branches of a tree in a long period of time; they lack extensor muscles thus making it hard for …show more content…

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