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a b c d "Sloth". Encyclopedia Britannica. Archived from the original on 19 May 2017 . Retrieved 1 December 2017. Sloths are solitary animals that rarely interact with one another except during breeding season, [39] though female sloths do sometimes congregate, more so than do males. [40] Amson, E.; Argot, C.; McDonald, H. G.; de Muizon, C. (2015). "Osteology and functional morphology of the axial postcranium of the marine sloth Thalassocnus (Mammalia, Tardigrada) with paleobiological implications". Journal of Mammalian Evolution. 22 (4): 473–518. doi: 10.1007/s10914-014-9280-7. S2CID 16700349.

Venema, Vibeke (4 April 2014). "The woman who got 'slothified' ". BBC News. Archived from the original on 6 March 2021 . Retrieved 1 December 2017. The result of infection since over the past 20 years six different pathogens have been reported to cause obesity in animal models as well as humans.

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Megalocnidae: the Greater Antilles sloths, a basal group that arose about 32 million years ago and became extinct about 5,000 years ago. [8] Pauli, Jonathan N.; Peery, M. Zachariah (19 December 2012). "Unexpected Strong Polygyny in the Brown-Throated Three-Toed Sloth". PLOS ONE. 7 (12): e51389. Bibcode: 2012PLoSO...751389P. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0051389. ISSN 1932-6203. PMC 3526605. PMID 23284687. We want to make your return as easy as possible, that’s why you can now return using InPost or Royal Mail. Megalocnus and some other Caribbean sloths survived until about 5,000 years ago, long after ground sloths had died out on the mainland, but then went extinct when humans finally colonized the Greater Antilles. [21] Biology Feeding brown-throated three-toed sloth ( Bradypus variegatus), Cahuita National Park, Costa Rica Morphology and anatomy Because of their slow digestion, sloths don’t eat that much day to day. The leaves stay in their systems for so long that their stomachs stay full and can’t fit many new leaves inside. For three-toed sloths, the average amount of leaves eaten each day is 73.5 grams. How many sloths are left in the world?

These associations [gluttony and sloth] are seen as being very time-bound and rooted in specific cultural and/or religious views of the body’. The authors are documenting historical views and comparing and contrasting them to modern attitudes. Moraes-Barros, M.C.; etal. (2011). "Morphology, molecular phylogeny, and taxonomic inconsistencies in the study of Bradypus sloths (Pilosa: Bradypodidae)". Journal of Mammalogy. 92 (1): 86–100. doi: 10.1644/10-MAMM-A-086.1. a b "Overview". The Sloth Conservation Foundation. Archived from the original on 1 December 2017 . Retrieved 29 November 2017. Sloths have an uncommonly slow metabolism. When a sloth eats, the time its body takes to convert that food source into energy is far longer than the average mammal of its size. Because of this and their low-calorie diet of leaves, sloths are always low on energy, so they need to be conservative in how they use it. They move slowly, stay within a small home range, and only relieve themselves once a week. Manly secret of non-mating sloth at London Zoo". BBC News. BBC. 19 August 2010. Archived from the original on 19 September 2020 . Retrieved 30 April 2015.The pale-throated three-toed sloth, which inhabits tropical rainforests in northern South America. It is similar in appearance to, and often confused with, the brown-throated three-toed sloth, which has a much wider distribution. Genetic evidence indicates the two species diverged around 6 million years ago. [10] Sloths are famous for their bizarre bathroom habits — they will only relieve themselves once a week and can lose up to a third of their body weight in one sitting! Furthermore, they will only do it on the ground after wiggling around the base of a tree to dig a little hole. This weird weekly routine remains one of the biggest mysteries surrounding sloth behaviour. While there are many different theories, the likely explanation is that it’s all about communication and reproduction. 4. Sloths are blind

Their limbs are adapted for hanging and grasping, not for supporting their weight. Muscle mass makes up only 25 to 30 percent of their total body weight. Most other mammals have a muscle mass that makes up 40 to 45 percent of their total body weight. [31] Their specialised hands and feet have long, curved claws to allow them to hang upside down from branches without effort, [32] and are used to drag themselves along the ground, since they cannot walk. On three-toed sloths, the arms are 50 percent longer than the legs. [24] Megalonychidae: ground sloths that existed for about 35 million years and went extinct about 11,000 years ago. This group was formerly thought to include both the two-toed sloths and the extinct Greater Antilles sloths.

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Raj Pant, Sara; Goswami, Anjali; Finarelli, John A (2014). "Complex body size trends in the evolution of sloths (Xenarthra: Pilosa)". BMC Evolutionary Biology. 14: 184. doi: 10.1186/s12862-014-0184-1. PMC 4243956. PMID 25319928. {{ cite journal}}: CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI ( link) Amson, E.; Muizon, C. de; Laurin, M.; Argot, C.; Buffrénil, V. de (2014). "Gradual adaptation of bone structure to aquatic lifestyle in extinct sloths from Peru". Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 281 (1782): 20140192. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2014.0192. PMC 3973278. PMID 24621950. As I noted this is a comprehensive study of BOTH ‘medical’ and ‘cultural’ representations of obesity, which makes the problem of the volume even more engaging. The notion that representations validate medical views seems very 19th century, very much enmeshed in a Rankian positivism rarely seen today in studies of medical imagery. Yet the study is sophisticated enough to engage in a rather good summary of the ideological meanings grafted onto to the constructed categories of obesity over the ages. But in its analysis of medicine remains a sphere seemingly devoid of ideology. Thus the representation of medical knowledge is one that centers on the ‘facts’ of contemporary medicine and their antecedents. That there are recent approaches to obesity that are no longer seen as ‘scientific,’ such as the psychoanalytic ones proposed by Hilde Bruch in the 1950s, is ignored. But of course in the 1950s these approaches assumed that they were the cutting-edge scientific explanation – and they were! Such claims of science as a true representation of the world, rather than a flawed or partial one, seem to be inherent to the science of obesity itself. And yet as indicated by my list above, even the medical authorities of our day seem not quite clear as to what obesity is and what its implications are. Do we assume that we are a fat collecting species? Do we assume that we are an addictive species? Is this not an inherent contradiction: if collecting fat is natural because it is preprogrammed in us genetically due to evolutionary processes how can it be pathological? How can an addiction to food be anything but natural and therefore non-addictive?