There's also an excellent article on interesting sloth facts on Tet Zoo: http://scienceblogs.com/tetrapodzoology/2007/01/ten_things_you_didnt_know_abou.php And one on the infamous "toilet sloths": http://scienceblogs.com/tetrapodzoology/2010/04/two-toed_toilet_sloths.php
Oh yes, I have written about the toilet sloths elsewhere - http://animalsbehavingbadly.blogspot.com/2010/08/go-ahead-climb-into-sewer-and-break-my.html Don't remind me!
. I learn something tougher on different blogs everyday. It would at all times be stimulating to read content material from different writers and practice just a little one thing from their store.
May 11, 2011
[Image] I thought I knew a lot about sloths. I used to work with two-toed sloths as a zookeeper. I know that the closest relatives of sloths are the apparently very different anteaters and armadillos, and that together they all make up an order called xenarthra. Hey, I even wrote a mystery with a sloth in the title, a sloth on the cover, and where important plot-related peril happens to sloths.
And yet somehow I only recently stumbled upon this species, the maned sloth. It's reportedly the rarest species, so I guess that's how I missed it.
Sloths are definitely not conventionally attractive, but I think they're the cutest things ever - especially the babies. I mean, if this doesn't prove that the world needs the word "ugdorable" I don't know what does: [Image]
That maned sloth, though...
But hey, maybe all it needs is a good makeover. It doesn't look too bad in this artist's rendering: [Image] You can have some ugly animal craft fun by downloading that cutout-and-assemble maned sloth at the Yamaha website (I am not making that up).
You can also read more about this sloth and other xenarthans at - where else - xenarthrans.org, the website of the conservationists who specialize in them. And see more pictures, including some very clear views of that unfortunate hairstyle, at the website of photographer Kevin Schafer.
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Close this window Jump to comment formThere's also an excellent article on interesting sloth facts on Tet Zoo: http://scienceblogs.com/tetrapodzoology/2007/01/ten_things_you_didnt_know_abou.php And one on the infamous "toilet sloths": http://scienceblogs.com/tetrapodzoology/2010/04/two-toed_toilet_sloths.php
May 09, 2011
Oh yes, I have written about the toilet sloths elsewhere -
http://animalsbehavingbadly.blogspot.com/2010/08/go-ahead-climb-into-sewer-and-break-my.html
Don't remind me!
May 09, 2011
Looks more like a manged sloth.
May 09, 2011
Awwww, little fuzzy baby! And sloths kind of remind me of muppets.
May 09, 2011
. I learn something tougher on different blogs everyday. It would at all times be stimulating to read content material from different writers and practice just a little one thing from their store.
May 11, 2011