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Sloths are so named because of their very low metabolism and deliberate movements. Sloth, related to slow, literally means "laziness", and their common names in several other languages (e.g., German: Faultier, French: paresseux, Spanish: perezoso, Romanian: leneș, Finnish: laiskiainen) also mean "lazy" or similar.
Glossotherium is an extinct genus of large mylodontid ground sloths of the subfamily Mylodontinae. It represents one of the best-known members of the family, along with Mylodon and Paramylodon. Reconstructed animals were between 3 and 4 metres (9.8 and 13.1 ft) long and possibly weighed up to 1,002.6–1,500 kg.
Sloth is one of the seven deadly sins in Catholic teachings. It is the most difficult sin to define and credit as sin, since it refers to an assortment of ideas, dating from antiquity and including mental, spiritual, pathological, and conditional states. [ 1 ]
Red: anteater, blue: sloth, purple: both sloth and anteater The order Pilosa / p aɪ ˈ l oʊ s ə / is a clade of xenarthran placental mammals , native to the Americas. It includes anteaters and sloths (which include the extinct ground sloths ).
Laziness (also known as indolence or sloth) is emotional disinclination to activity or exertion despite having the ability to act or to exert oneself. It is often used as a pejorative; terms for a person seen to be lazy include " couch potato ", " slacker ", and " bludger ".
The sloth virus, a.k.a. Oropouche or sloth fever, has been detected in Europe. Experts share the main symptoms, along with treatments and prevention. Scientists Raise Concern Over ‘Sloth Virus ...
The three-toed or three-fingered sloths are arboreal neotropical mammals. [2] They are the only members of the genus Bradypus (meaning "slow-footed") and the family Bradypodidae. The five living species of three-toed sloths are the brown-throated sloth, the maned sloth, the pale-throated sloth, the southern maned sloth, and the pygmy three-toed ...
The sloth's little wave is just the cutest! ABC News commenter @nikb1013 made me laugh when she pointed out, "I love that a sloth knows the appropriate “Thank You” gesture to give polite ...