This is a silk floss tree. It stands on campus outside our department building. It is believed that the silk floss tree developed its spikes as protection against megafauna, especially mega sloths. 🤯🤯🤯 I mean, what am I supposed to do with awesome information like that? I think I’m going to have to lie down. Someone fetch me my smelling salts. 🦥🦥🦥 @academicchatter #sloths #megafauna #florida #miami #trees #treesofmastodon
#sloths #megafauna #florida #miami #trees #treesofmastodon
Smiling Sloth; Acrylic Portrait of Furry Animal, Gift of Love & Friendship, Artwork, Myasthenia Gravis Mascot, Printable Download File by ColorBySusan on Etsy https://www.etsy.com/listing/1484385426/smiling-sloth-acrylic-portrait-of-furry #giftideas #myastheniagravis #mg #sloths #animals #slow
#giftideas #myastheniagravis #mg #sloths #animals #slow
WAIT-
#Sloths have stringy low fat meat, and large Birds of Prey like to eat them.
Why aren't more large #BirdsOfPrey trying to eat us, or at the very least human children?
In a matchup between a sloth & a big cat ** on the ground **, who wins?
This rare footage says the sloth (one of my favorite creatures) can actually move fast & defend itself pretty well when it needs to.
https://www.sciencealert.com/rare-footage-captures-the-moment-a-predator-attacked-a-sloth-and-lost
While sloths eat a lot of plants, they avoid releasing gas through the quirk of their very slow digestion.
#science #sciencefacts #sloths #gas #fart #flatulence
It's time for a revival of the Sloth Sunday posts.
Certainly feels like the day for it since it's pissing rain here. #IrishJuly has been a wet month indeed. Nothing else but #slothing to do today.
#slothsunday
This photo is of a sloth baby & mum in Fota Wildlife park in co. Cork, from 2022.
Many a trip to #FotaWildlife when we still lived in #Cork. The #redpandas used to be my faves.
But I digress.. so, #sloths !
Photo credit: Michael O’Sullivan /OSM PHOTO
Video: https://youtu.be/TlNNEGGg21E
#irishjuly #slothing #slothsunday #fotawildlife #cork #RedPandas #sloths
#sloths #theartofliving #inspiring #animals
We should practice this as a soul lifting concept of #trustinlife😀
#sloths #theartofliving #inspiring #animals #trustinlife
#Pendants made from giant #sloths suggest earlier arrival of people in the #Americas
https://apnews.com/article/giant-sloths-early-people-americas-4c28e6d96f8bd58ede8ac48e0c39b533
I never posted the photos of the last sloth I met on the trip! This one was awake and active.
Manuel Antonio National Park, Costa Rica, May 2023.
#Sloths #Travel #CostaRica #NationalParks #Wildlife #Nature #Photography #WildlifePhotography #NaturePhotography
#naturephotography #wildlifephotography #Photography #Nature #WildLife #nationalparks #costarica #Travel #sloths
#KnowledgeByte: #Sloths are famous for being extremely slow. Three-toed sloths are the slowest-moving mammals on the planet.
Do you know why?
#KnowledgeByte: #Sloths are famous for being extremely slow. Three-toed sloths are the slowest-moving mammals on the planet.
Do you know why?
Who needs sloth photos on a Friday evening?
This one was very awake and active, climbing a tree.
Manuel Antonio National Park, Costa Rica.
#Sloths #Travel #TravelPhotography #Photography #CostaRica #Nature #Wildlife #NaturePhotography #WildlifePhotography
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IT'S SLOTH TIME AGAIN!!!
A two-toed sloth this time. Note the longer hair, brown rather than gray, and the piggy nose.
Costa Rica.
#costarica #Photography #travelphotography #Travel #sloths
IT'S SLOTH TIME!!!!
Again. Because it's can't be sloth time just once. Same 3-toed sloth as earlier but it had moved a little during our hike so I had to take more photos. Only 7 photos this time.
Arenal volcano, Costa Rica.
#Sloths #Travel #TravelPhotography #Photography #CostaRica
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3-toed sloth. It even opened its eyes for a minute. If you look carefully at its fur, you'll see his live-in companions, especially ticks.
These are the photos I took on our way up. I took more photos on our way down because it had moved an inch or so.
Arenal volcano, Costa Rica.
#Sloths #Travel #TravelPhotography #Photography #CostaRica
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I have too many photos of sloths and all are too cute to sort out and delete. Also, I can't remember which sloth (2-toed or 3-toed) has long hair vs short hair, brown vs grey, smiley face vs piggy face). I heard the explanation so many times but it simply wouldn't stick, I'll just have to google it.
Arenal volcano, Costa Rica.
#Sloths #Travel #TravelPhotography #Portraits #Photography #CostaRica #Nature #Wildlife #NaturePhotography #WildlifePhotography
#wildlifephotography #naturephotography #WildLife #Nature #costarica #Photography #portraits #travelphotography #Travel #sloths
I must be an #anglophile. #teatime really is #Britain ‘s greatest invention. Freaking. EVER. #TeaTimeForever #cassetteheaven #beatles #ledzeppelin #sloths #cassettes
#anglophile #teatime #britain #teatimeforever #cassetteheaven #beatles #ledzeppelin #sloths #cassettes