Sloths Are Not that Lazy

Sloths really deserve their name: 11 % of the sloths move only 38 m (126 ft) daily, and 38 % of them cannot move at all for 24 hours. Captive two-toed sloths are active about 7 hours each day. Moreover, coming to increase the impression of laziness is the fact that, since sloths are nocturnal, they just sleep or doze off constantly during the day. But this image of the lazy, always sleeping creature has been challenged by a new research published in the Royal Society journal Biology Letters. ... Read »

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