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Sloths not so slothful

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In the wild, sloths are no lazier than the average teenager.

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  1. Rattenborg, N. C. et al. Biol. Lett. doi:10.1098/rsbl.2008.0203 (2008).

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Whitfield, J. Sloths not so slothful. Nature (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/news.2008.820

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