The Sloth Blog
Be More Sloth, says eveSleep
The sleep brand's Be More Sloth video, which aims to help reduce stress and insomnia, lasts 20 hours, and shows footage of a sloth as it sleeps throughout the day in the Costa Rican rainforest. The length of the video is inspired by the slow movements of sloths, which spend up to 20 hours asleep and move...
Sloths, the world's slowest mammal, turn survival of the fittest upside down
The stopwatch has long been the symbol of 60 Minutes. But any measure of time is pointless for the subject of our next story: the slow-moving sloth. You might think these distant relatives of the armadillo would make the perfect meal for just about anything faster. And yet, somehow, sloths...
Three sloths freeze to death at Belgian airport
Authorities in Wallonia have opened a probe into the death of three sloths during a stopover at Liège airport, after the cargo jet on which they were being transported to Malaysia got stuck in a snowstorm. The plane “was supposed to transit for two hours to refuel, but was not...
The Extreme Life Of A Sloth
Sloths are the slowest mammal on the planet. But as strange as they seem the sloth is perfectly adapted to their environment and is actually slow for a very important reason. In fact, sloths are far from boring and are a lot more extreme than it seems. With an ecosystem...
Why are sloths slow?
Sloths—the adorable and lethargic animals living in treetops—depend on the health and survival of Central and South American tropical forests. They spend much of their lives in the canopy, snoozing and remaining hidden from predators. The animals live solitary lives and travel from tree to tree using canopy vines. Located...