#SLOTH DEFINITION SKIN#

Their guide, heartened by the good audience response, points out more funny trees - the dynamite tree, Hura crepitans, whose fruit explodes when it is ripe, and the very rare Cecropia of South America, the sloth tree, indeed the only mature Cecropia palmata in the United States, whose leaves have the texture of chamois skin and never disintegrate. One of the most spectacular pre-industrial extinction events was that of the Pleistocene megafauna - the saber-toothed cats, mammoths, dire wolves, giant ground sloths, glyptodonts, and all those other animals familiar from museum dioramas. He investigated, came shortly to a hole of some size, large enough to show him that it must be the home of some richh, bhalu, a common sloth or black bear. When by the breath of flowers I am beguiled From sense of pain, and lulled in odorous sloth.ДЄpparently, the giant ground sloth and the short-faced grizzly also dwelt in the forests and plains along with the humpless camel, the mammoth, and the mastodon.ДЄnd, if the truth be told, Bass, the anti-Rome sentiment of the English people began at that time, through the preachments of these commoner-priests-cum-prelates against the sloth, indolence, money grubbing and posturings of the Church hierarchy.ДЄnd here was a solitary barylambda, a clumsy creature like a ground sloth with powerfully muscled legs and a stubby pointed tail.

Sloths make good habitats for other organisms, and a single sloth may be home to moths, beetles, cockroaches, fungi, ciliates, and algae. Extant sloths are medium-sized arboreal (tree-dwelling) residents of the jungles of Central and South America. Extinct sloth species include many megafaunal ground sloths, some of which attained the size of elephants, as well as a few species of marine sloths. They are classified in the order Pilosa because they are related to anteaters, which sport a similar set of specialized claws. Aside from their surprising speed during emergency flights from predators, other notable traits of sloths include their strong body and their ability to host symbiotic algae on their furs. They are named after the capital sin of sloth because they seem slow and lazy at first glance however, their usual idleness is due to metabolic adaptations for conserving energy. Sloths are mammals classified in the families Megalonychidae (two-toed sloths) and Bradypodidae (three-toed sloths), including six extant species. India and Ceylon - called also aswail, labiatedД«ear, and jungle bear. ( Melursus ursinus, or Melursus labiatus), native of Sloth bear (Zol.), a black or brown long-haired bear Various largeД®xtinct terrestrial edentates, such as Megatherium andДЄustralian sloth, or Native sloth (Zol.), the koala. The best-known is the unau ( Cholopus didactylus) of Two toes on each fore foot and three on each hind foot. Two-toed sloths, consisting the genus Cholopus, have Tridactylus), and the ai ( Arctopitheus ai). TheД«est-known species are collared sloth ( Bradypus Note: The three-toed sloths belong to the genera BradypusДЄnd Arctopithecus, of which several species have beenДescribed. They inhabit South and Central America and (Zol.) Any one of several species of arborealД®dentates constituting the family Bradypodid, and Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears. change their course to pleasure, ease, and wДisinclination to action or labor sluggishness laziness

Sloth definition