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And we finally have the studies, one in Britain called "Gluttony versus sloth" that tracked weight against diet and tracked weight against inactivity, and found a much higher, stronger correlation between the latter two.
They came from an extinct giant sloth.
Jefferson's sloth, Megalonyx, weighed about a ton, and that was small compared to megatherium, which could reach six metric tons, as much as an elephant.
It would take a sloth about five minutes to cross an average neighborhood street.
These physical and behavioral adaptations minimize the sloth's energy expenditure, or metabolic rate.
So between about 15,000 years ago when people first came here, they started a process of interacting with the nature that led to the extinction of a big slew of large-bodied animals, from the mastodon to the giant ground sloth, saber-toothed cats, all of these cool animals that unfortunately are no longer with us.
"Finally, the sloth replied, 'It is true that I am slow, quiet and boring.
Then the sloth yawned and said, 'That's just how I am.
Well, I'm here to talk to you about my animal muse: the sloth.
I traced sloth-based slander back to a Spanish conquistador called Valdés, who gave the first description of a sloth in his encyclopedia of the New World.
He said the sloth was "the stupidest animal that can be found in the world ... I have never seen such an ugly animal or one that is more useless."
I've never seen an illustration of a sloth that's more useless.
But I mean, on the plus side, he has given the sloth a remarkably humanlike face, and sloths do have remarkably humanlike faces.
This sloth I photographed in Costa Rica, I think looks a lot like Ringo Starr.
They come from an ancient line of mammals, and there were once dozens of species including the giant ground sloth, which was the size of a small elephant and one of the only animals big enough to eat avocado pits whole and disperse them.
So what if, rather than deriding the sloth for being different, we tried to learn from it instead?
The sloth, on the other hand, can reach a leisurely 17 feet a minute with the wind behind it.
The sloth, on the other hand, has taken a more stealthy approach to dinner.
The sloth's secret weapon is a four-chambered stomach and plenty of time.
Hard at work, that sloth, very hard at work.
The only problem is, if you turn a sloth the other way up, gravity removes its dignity.
Well, this is one of the sloth's main predators.
The sloth, on the other hand, has poor hearing, bad eyesight, and running from danger is clearly not an option.
This sloth recovered from a double amputation, and I've known sloths that have managed to survive even power line electrocutions.
How about we all embrace our inner sloth by slowing down, being more mindful, reducing wasteful convenience, being economical with our energy, recycling creatively and reconnecting with nature.
May the sloth be with you! (Applause) Nanahuatl, weakest of the Aztec gods, sickly and covered in pimples, had been chosen to form a new world.
Common groups, like the sloth here, have clear adaptations for forest canopies, hanging on with their very strong claws.
Because the sloth bears in the wild were obviously getting depleted because of this.
An interesting animation about the fate of a giant tiger, a sloth, and a mammoth, who saved a baby, who was close to be killed by a group of tigers during the ice age.
The baby was then rescued by the sloth and the mammoth, but the tiger joined them with the objective of finally taken away the baby.