The researchers found that three-toed sloths can harbor more phoretic moths than their two-toed counterparts because of greater concentrations of inorganic nitrogen and higher algal biomass in their ...

Ever since French naturalist Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, first described the sloth in 1749, the planet’s slowest moving mammal has had its work cut out for it. “These sloths are the lowest ...

Among the greatest mysteries of the tropical rainforest are the pooping habits of sloths. Really. Those furry, slow-moving tree dwellers almost never descend from the safety of the tree tops—except ...

Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...

While humans wouldn’t be very happy to find that organisms were growing on their skin, particularly fungi, algae, and insects, it works out pretty well for sloths. Sloths may be hosting entire ...

Wolda, Hendrik. 1985. "Seasonal distribution of sloth moths Cryptoses choloepi Dyar (Pyralidae; Chrysauginae) in light traps in Panama." In The Evolution and Ecology of Armadillos, Sloths, and ...

Spare a minute from your frenetically busy day to consider the quite different life of the three-toed sloth. It is true that the sloth, which lives in the jungles of Central and South America, would ...