Holding sloths in Roatan Honduras is very popular, are you ready? Let us take you to learn more about the sloths, capuchin monkeys, tropical birds (yellow head parrots, scarlet macaw), and more wildlife species. In this eco-tour, our friendly local guide will take you to a local animal sanctuary, including a chocolate tasting experience, stops for photos, and share cultural information of our little island Roatan, part of the Bay Islands of Honduras.
Below our happy guests Treo, Reesa & the boys from Kansas, the United States visiting the island for the firsts time and enjoying and learning about the wildlife species in Roatan. The tour started at The Meridian, West Bay area, our guide Louis was there on time and always happy to provide information and share some of Roatan cultural & historical information.
About the Sloths
The sloth is so named because of its very low metabolism and deliberate movements, sloth being related to the word slow. This supports their low-energy diet of leaves and avoids detection by predatory hawks and cats that hunt by sight.
Sloths of the present day are arboreal mammals noted for slowness of movement and for spending most of their lives hanging upside down in the trees of the tropical rain forests of South America and Central America. The six species are in two families: two-toed sloths and three-toed sloths.
Baby sloths learn what to eat by licking the lips of their mother. All sloths eat the leaves of the cecropia.
Two-toed sloths have a diverse diet of insects, carrion, fruits, leaves, and small lizards, ranging over up to 140 hectares. Three-toed sloths, on the other hand, have a limited diet of leaves from only a few trees, and no mammal digests as slowly.
They have made adaptations to arboreal browsing. Leaves, their main food source, provide very little energy or nutrients and do not digest easily, so sloths have large, slow-acting stomachs with multiple compartments in which symbiotic bacteria break down the tough leaves. As much as two-thirds of a well-fed sloth’s body weight consists of the contents of its stomach, and the digestive process can take a month or more to complete.
Three-toed sloths go to the ground to urinate and defecate about once a week, digging a hole and covering it afterward. They go to the same spot each time and are vulnerable to predation while doing so. This behavior may be related to maintaining the ecosystem in the sloths’ fur. Individual sloths tend to spend the bulk of their time feeding on a single “modal” tree; by burying their excreta near the trunk of that tree, they may help nourish it. Recent research shows that moths, which live in the sloth’s fur, lay eggs in the sloth’s feces. When they hatch, the larvae feed on the feces, and when mature fly up onto the sloth above.
More Wildlife Species
At the eco-park, we also learned about the capuchin monkeys, scarlet colorful macaws, yellow head parrots, the indigenous Agouti or Guatusa, also known as the Roatan island rabbit. The staff at the park are very friendly and will share a lot of information about the wildlife species.
Sloth at the Roat the eco park 
Yellow head parrots 
Capuchin Monkeys 
Feeding the Monkey 
Having Fun 
Scarlet Macaw 
Capuchin Monkeys 
Yellow Head Parrot 
Local Market Shopping 
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