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- noun Plural form of
sloth .
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Examples
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These little nocturnal burrowing edentates are the puny representatives of the gigantic Glyptodon of Pleistocene times, and the sloths are the dwindling shadows of the lordly
The Andes and the Amazon Across the Continent of South America James Orton 1853
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So where someone might simply choose to live out a fantasy day after day, there will be those individuals who recognize that while all these 'sloths' are tied to the machine, there's a huge opportunity to seize the moment and move onward and upward.
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BUT the Two-toed and Three-toed sloths have a DIFFERENT number of vertebrae.
Three things you might not have known about SLOTHS lili 2009
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I foolishly got my hopes up, but, you know, ground sloths do that.
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This crazy vertebrae inconsistency is because the Two - and Three-toed sloths do not have a shared ancestor until you go back 40 MILLION YEARS.
Archive 2009-10-01 lili 2009
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This crazy vertebrae inconsistency is because the Two - and Three-toed sloths do not have a shared ancestor until you go back 40 MILLION YEARS.
Three things you might not have known about SLOTHS lili 2009
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As in, I wooked at the itty-bitty sloths and they were so cute I fell in wuv!
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Apparently, some sloths move sooooo slowly, that they turn green from algae growing on their fur ..... my god, I need a life.
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Who'd have dreamed that sloths could be so cute?!?
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Did you know that in pre-historic times there were actually giant sloths the size of elephants?
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