Sloths are decidedly friends of this blog, which is why the management was intrigued to read the following masterpiece of scientific research, as reported by BBC Online and accompanied by a cute, cute picture.

Damn, more shattered illusions. And I was planning to come back as one, next time round. Apparently it is not the idyllic existence I had imagined:

Sloth’s lazy image ‘a myth’

The sloth’s popular image as a lazy creature that sleeps for most of the day has been called into question.

Rather than snoozing for more than 16 hours a day, as observed in captivity, sloths in the wild doze for less than 10 hours, research suggests.

Scientists caught sloths living in the rainforest of Panama and fitted them with a device that monitors sleep.

The findings, published in a Royal Society journal, may help shed light on human sleep disorders, they say. Read full story here…

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Here’s the LOLcat (LOLsloth??) to which the title of this post refers, because it cannot be reproduced too often:

more cat pictures

Altogether now: awwwww!

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