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Lucy Cooke made a video last year at the world’s only sloth orphanage, The Sloth Sanctuary of Costa Rica. Her sloth project has expanded into a documentary, Too Cute! Baby Sloths that will air on Animal Planet this Saturday. Meanwhile, enjoy the adorable trailer. Link -via I Am Bored
How cute are these sloths? The entire family was made by a crafter in Hokkaido, Japan. See more pictures at Craftzine. Link -via Rue The Day
A two-toed sloth was recently born at the Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago. Baby loves Mama and Mama clearly loves Baby very much.
via Super Punch
Despite sharing a name with the deadly sin of laziness, sloths aren’t all that slow and they don’t sleep all day either. But they stay so still that scientists had to glue electrodes to their heads to tell when they slept! The sloth’s lack of activity is their camouflage to avoid being eaten by eagles.
To that end, sloths have picked up a couple of useful adaptations. First, they’re covered in a unique sort of fur that’s an ideal breeding ground for algae. Second, they’re able to spend most daylight hours immobile and, when they do move, it’s usually very, very slowly. The result: From the air, sloths look more like green vegetation than tasty, meaty eagle snack.
Learn more about sloths at Boing Boing. Link
(image credit: flickrfavorites)
PS: Happy anniversary to Boing Boing, celebrating ten years of blogging!
