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 ...
DENVER (KDVR) — Despite being so sedentary that algae grow on their fur, the Denver Zoo Conservation Alliance’s new sloth pup is anything but slow to steal hearts. The baby Linne’s Two-toed Sloth ...
That’s algae growing in their coats. This unique relationship may help with camouflage. Some of the microbes in their fur have even shown potential for developing new antibiotics. Are Surprisingly ...
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This animal loses 30% of its body weight in a single bathroom trip
It’s not considered polite to talk about it, but we all do it. Some of us are in and out so quickly that nobody would even ...
Suutari, Milla, Majaneva, Markus, Fewers, David P., Voirin, Bryson, Aiello, Annette, Friedl, Thomas, Chiarello, Adriano G., and Blomster, Jaanika. 2010. "Molecular ...
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 ...
Despite being so sedentary that algae grow on their fur, the Denver Zoo Conservation Alliance’s new sloth pup is anything but slow to steal hearts.
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