Sloth News Day
1 November 2007
My sister and I were IMing earlier today about French bulldog puppies and other paragons of cuteness. At some point in the conversation, I sent her a link to the lolsloth I had seen, which prompted her to send me a link to a picture of a sloth in a box. She also mentioned that there was a video of a sloth in a box lurking somewhere on the net.
Somehow this led to me spending what now seems like an inordinate amount of time viewing clips of sloths, both two-toed and three-toed, on YouTube. I found one baby sloth in a box, multiple baby sloths in boxes, and a raft of other baby sloth films; a sloth stranded on the ground; a sloth swimming; even an unfortunate sloth being picked off by a harpy eagle.
The pièce de résistance, though, was a clip of the inimitable David Attenborough explaining more than I ever thought I needed to know about the digestive habits of sloths.
And is it just me, or are sloths the Edward Scissorhands of the animal kingdom?
Entry Filed under: Fun, NaBloPoMo, Nature, Television. Tags: sloths.
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mars | 2 November 2007 at 10:55
Lordie, I adore sloths even more now. Esp the two toed darlings with there little pink noses! Though the three toed with their sly little bandit masks… I could die from the sheer cuteness.
and oh my, I just saw your final comment. They ARE the Edward Scissorhands of the animal kingdom! HA!
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Bill Hawley | 16 November 2007 at 20:17
Coincidentally, I just saw the lolsloth while looking at dozens of photos on icanhascheezburger at work today. (It was a slow day.) And I really love me some Frenchies!