Brazil's Amazing Animal Facts

A sloth can turn its head 270 degrees and hold it nearly straight up while its body is hanging upside down.

A sloth climbs down from its tree about once a week to urinate and deficate.

Sloths make shrill whistling sounds. A baby sloth might bleat if it gets away from its mother.

The Pigmy Marmoset’s claws help it cling to tree trunks.
Scientists discovered new cousins (a new Marmoset species) in 1993.

Pigmy Marmosets can live to be eleven years old.
 

The small size of the Pigmy Marmoset is great for hiding in the leaves from predators.

The smallness of the Pygmy Marmoset doesn’t keep him from chasing intruders from his territory.

Muriquis are the largest primates in South America.

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