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Kristen Bell's Sloth Meltdown
Attenborough: Saying Boo to a Sloth! - BBC Earth
Meet the sloths
The Funniest Baby Sloth Video Ever!!!
THE SLOTHS ARE COMING
Bath Time for Baby Sloths | Too Cute
Tiny Baby Sloth gets the Onesie Treatment - 'Meet The Sloths' Animal Planet
Baby Sloths Get Swaddled | Too Cute
Hey you guys
Baby Sloth
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Kristen Bell's Sloth Meltdown/video details
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  • Published: 31 Jan 2012
  • Duration: 3:43
  • Updated: 26 Jun 2012
Author: TheEllenShow
Kristen Bell loves sloths. You might even say she's obsessed with them. She told Ellen about what happened when her boyfriend, Dax Shepard, introduced her to one for the first time, and if it's too hard to believe, she brought the footage to prove it.
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Attenborough: Saying Boo to a Sloth! - BBC Earth/video details
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  • Published: 18 May 2009
  • Duration: 2:55
  • Updated: 25 Jun 2012
Author: BBCEarth
In this amusing and entertaining clip from the BBC's Life of Mammals, David Attenborough looks at the life of a sloth. The sloth has adapted to the lack of nutrition in its diet of leaves by hanging around not doing very much at all. We even get to see one moving at high speed! Watch more high quality videos on the BBC Earth YouTube channel here: www.youtube.com and visit www.BBCEarth.com for all the latest natural history exclusives and fantastic new wildlife videos.
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Meet the sloths/video details
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  • Published: 21 May 2010
  • Duration: 1:50
  • Updated: 25 Jun 2012
Author: lucycooke
For more funny sloth videos from the maker of this video go to www.slothville.com
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The Funniest Baby Sloth Video Ever!!!/video details
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  • Published: 08 Nov 2007
  • Duration: 2:00
  • Updated: 25 Jun 2012
Author: BernieKnightRider
Aviarios del Caribe - - These are some of the baby Sloths down in Costa Rica at the only sloth sanctuary in the world. They do great work and this happens to be absolutely hilarious
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THE SLOTHS ARE COMING/video details
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  • Published: 12 Dec 2011
  • Duration: 1:28
  • Updated: 25 Jun 2012
Author: SlothvilleTV
To find out about the documentary (which in the UK airs on Animal Planet with the title 'Meet the Sloths') visit www.slothville.com or follow slothville on FB or @slothville on Twitter.
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Bath Time for Baby Sloths | Too Cute/video details
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  • Published: 21 Dec 2011
  • Duration: 1:52
  • Updated: 25 Jun 2012
Author: AnimalPlanetTV
The only thing cuter than a dry baby sloth is a wet one! Too Cute's MOST ADORABLE CLIPS! animal.discovery.com
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Tiny Baby Sloth gets the Onesie Treatment - 'Meet The Sloths' Animal Planet/video details
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  • Published: 24 Feb 2012
  • Duration: 2:08
  • Updated: 23 Jun 2012
Author: DiscoveryTV
Meet the Sloths Animal Planet and Animal Planet HD facebook.com/DiscoveryUK In a sleepy corner of Costa Rica there is a very peculiar but extraordinary sanctuary. Run by Judy Avey-Arroyo for 20 years, this is the only sanctuary in the world devoted to saving orphaned and injured sloths, and is home to over 160 of them, some of whom have become an internet sensation.
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Baby Sloths Get Swaddled | Too Cute/video details
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  • Published: 21 Dec 2011
  • Duration: 3:27
  • Updated: 25 Jun 2012
Author: AnimalPlanetTV
Baby sloths have to be swaddled in special outfits to keep them warm. Too Cute's MOST ADORABLE CLIPS! animal.discovery.com
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Hey you guys/video details
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  • Published: 01 Feb 2007
  • Duration: 0:03
  • Updated: 24 Jun 2012
Author: KlikyFooFighter
No description is required, the video says it all.....
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Baby Sloth/video details
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  • Published: 30 Aug 2006
  • Duration: 1:16
  • Updated: 24 Jun 2012
Author: TheGregShow
Aviarios del Caribe ~ Sloth Rescue Center in Limon, Costa Rica The sloth in this video was orphaned, and is now cared for by the good people at Aviarios del Caribe. For more information, visit www.ogphoto.com This footage was taken while on a country-wide excursion through costa rica. Regretfully, this is not my pet sloth and I have no involvement in its upbringing. I'm sure the experienced and knowledgeable staff at ADC will release it back into the wild when it is old and healthy enough to be able to survive on its own.
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Baby Sloths Get Potty Trained | Too Cute/video details
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  • Published: 21 Dec 2011
  • Duration: 2:28
  • Updated: 25 Jun 2012
Author: AnimalPlanetTV
You wouldn't think that potty training baby sloths would be cute, but it is! Too Cute's MOST ADORABLE CLIPS! animal.discovery.com
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Swimming Sloth/video details
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  • Published: 29 May 2007
  • Duration: 1:45
  • Updated: 24 Jun 2012
Author: JoellenDavid
While boating near Isla Cristobal in Bocas Del Toro, Panama we came upon this critter swimming in the sea. Watch this!
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Sloth Crossing the Street- I Believe I Can Fly Version/video details
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  • Published: 20 May 2011
  • Duration: 0:42
  • Updated: 25 Jun 2012
Author: timah99
WATCH AND LIKE MY NEW CHRISTMAS VIDEO!!!! www.youtube.com Sloth crosses the street in miraculous fashion. AS SEEN ON =3!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Original Sloth Video Copyright mermaid5651 April 11, 2010!!!!!!! Find the Sloth on Facebook! www.facebook.com
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Best of Sloth/video details
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  • Published: 29 Jul 2009
  • Duration: 3:41
  • Updated: 25 Jun 2012
Author: shgfe3ay
Sloth from the Goonies and my favourite scenes of his in the movie. what a badass character!
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  • Kristen Bell's Sloth Meltdown...3:43
  • Attenborough: Saying Boo to a Sloth! - BBC Earth...2:55
  • Meet the sloths...1:50
  • The Funniest Baby Sloth Video Ever!!!...2:00
  • THE SLOTHS ARE COMING...1:28
  • Bath Time for Baby Sloths | Too Cute...1:52
  • Tiny Baby Sloth gets the Onesie Treatment - 'Meet The Sloths' Animal Planet...2:08
  • Baby Sloths Get Swaddled | Too Cute...3:27
  • Hey you guys...0:03
  • Baby Sloth...1:16
  • Baby Sloths Get Potty Trained | Too Cute...2:28
  • Swimming Sloth...1:45
  • Sloth Crossing the Street- I Believe I Can Fly Version...0:42
  • Best of Sloth...3:41
Kristen Bell loves sloths. You might even say she's obsessed with them. She told Ellen about what happened when her boyfriend, Dax Shepard, introduced her to one for the first time, and if it's too hard to believe, she brought the footage to prove it.
3:43
Kris­ten Bell's Sloth Melt­down
Kris­ten Bell loves sloths. You might even say she's ob­sessed with them. She told Ellen...
pub­lished: 31 Jan 2012
2:55
At­ten­bor­ough: Say­ing Boo to a Sloth! - BBC Earth
In this amus­ing and en­ter­tain­ing clip from the BBC's Life of Mam­mals, David At­ten­borou...
pub­lished: 18 May 2009
au­thor: BBCEarth
1:50
Meet the sloths
For more funny sloth videos from the maker of this video go to www.​slothville.​com...
pub­lished: 21 May 2010
au­thor: lucy­cooke
2:00
The Fun­ni­est Baby Sloth Video Ever!!!
Aviar­ios del Caribe - - These are some of the baby Sloths down in Costa Rica at the only s...
pub­lished: 08 Nov 2007
1:28
THE SLOTHS ARE COM­ING
To find out about the doc­u­men­tary (which in the UK airs on An­i­mal Plan­et with the title &#...
pub­lished: 12 Dec 2011
au­thor: Slothvil­leTV
1:52
Bath Time for Baby Sloths | Too Cute
The only thing cuter than a dry baby sloth is a wet one! Too Cute's MOST ADORABLE CLIP...
pub­lished: 21 Dec 2011
2:08
Tiny Baby Sloth gets the One­sie Treat­ment - 'Meet The Sloths' An­i­mal Plan­et
Meet the Sloths An­i­mal Plan­et and An­i­mal Plan­et HD facebook.​com/​DiscoveryUK In a sleepy co...
pub­lished: 24 Feb 2012
au­thor: Dis­cov­eryTV
3:27
Baby Sloths Get Swad­dled | Too Cute
Baby sloths have to be swad­dled in spe­cial out­fits to keep them warm. Too Cute's MOST ...
pub­lished: 21 Dec 2011
0:03
Hey you guys
No de­scrip­tion is re­quired, the video says it all........
pub­lished: 01 Feb 2007
1:16
Baby Sloth
Aviar­ios del Caribe ~ Sloth Res­cue Cen­ter in Limon, Costa Rica The sloth in this video was...
pub­lished: 30 Aug 2006
au­thor: The­GregShow
2:28
Baby Sloths Get Potty Trained | Too Cute
You wouldn't think that potty train­ing baby sloths would be cute, but it is! Too Cute&...
pub­lished: 21 Dec 2011
1:45
Swim­ming Sloth
While boat­ing near Isla Cristo­bal in Bocas Del Toro, Pana­ma we came upon this crit­ter swim...
pub­lished: 29 May 2007
0:42
Sloth Cross­ing the Street- I Be­lieve I Can Fly Ver­sion
WATCH AND LIKE MY NEW CHRIST­MAS VIDEO!!!! www.​youtube.​com Sloth cross­es the street in mira...
pub­lished: 20 May 2011
au­thor: timah99
3:41
Best of Sloth
Sloth from the Goonies and my favourite scenes of his in the movie. what a badass char­acte...
pub­lished: 29 Jul 2009
au­thor: shgfe3ay
2:31
Kris­ten Bell's Sloth Gets Au­to-tuned!
Kris­ten Bell told a hi­lar­i­ous story about meet­ing a sloth, and the video got over 8 Mil­lio...
pub­lished: 09 Feb 2012
1:14
Three-toed sloth road es­cort
We came across this three-toed sloth strug­gling to cross the road be­tween Are­nal Vol­cano a...
pub­lished: 06 Aug 2006
au­thor: chuqd
0:28
Baby Sloth in Pana­ma
This cute lit­tle guy is a baby sloth tem­porar­i­ly liv­ing at the Panamer­i­can Con­ser­va­tion As...
pub­lished: 23 Nov 2006
au­thor: brooke­serp
1:00
Cu­ri­ous baby sloth
This video was taken when vis­it­ing the Sloth Sanc­tu­ary in Puer­to Limon, Costa Rica. See ww...
pub­lished: 22 Oct 2007
au­thor: albflaamo
5:01
Sloth Sanc­tu­ary - Costa Rica
Aviar­ios del Caribe, the Sloth Sanc­tu­ary near Cahui­ta, Costa Rica. High­lights of the morni...
pub­lished: 26 Sep 2010
3:36
the Goonies-best of Chunk & Sloth
all of the best clips of chunk n sloth...
pub­lished: 28 Mar 2008
au­thor: 0826­jesse
1:57
Wait­ing for a Sloth - Kris­ten Bell & Ellen Sing!
Kris­ten Bell + Sloths = Undy­ing Love SONGI­FY: the free iPhone app -bit.​ly or on An­droid: b...
pub­lished: 09 Feb 2012
au­thor: schmoy­oho
0:19
Adorable Baby Sloth Yawn­ing
Don't for­get to watch in 1080p!...
pub­lished: 02 Jul 2011
au­thor: TheM­r­MikeK




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A SWAT team officer stands watch near an apartment house where the suspect in a shooting at a movie theatre lived in Aurora, Colo., Friday, July 20, 2012.
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  • The Independent 1. The United Kingdom, according to the latest edition of The Lancet, is one of the most slothful countries in the world. A set of papers researching lack of exercise has revealed that, in Europe, the British are second only to the Maltese and the Serbs for physical laziness. A hefty 63.3 per cent...
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  • PhysOrg As forests in South and Central America are cleared for agriculture and other human uses, populations of these arboreal leaf eaters, which depend on large trees for both food and refuge, can become isolated and at risk. But one type of sustainable agriculture, shade grown cacao plantations, a source...
  • Boston Herald Voicing a character in an animated hit movie can get complicated. Just ask John Leguizamo, who’s done four installments as Sid the Sloth in the “Ice Age” series. “The interesting part of being a voice is the adults are always recognizing me and they bring the kids over and...
  • Jakarta Globe Animal welfare groups lodged a formal complaint with the Jakarta Police on Monday, alleging that a television show had exploited a protected Sumatran sloth in one of its episodes. Irma Hermawati, who represents the groups, which include ProFauna Indonesia, the Jakarta Animal Aid Network and the...
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  • Huffington Post From tiny hedgehogs to playful puppies, baby animals are undoubtedly some of the most adorable things on the planet -- turning even the toughest among us into cooing balls of happiness. But baby sloths -- with their placid smiles and bright, beguiling eyes -- are perhaps the most nom-worthy of them...
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    Sloths[1]
    Brown-throated three-toed sloth
    (Bradypus variegatus)
    Gatun Lake, Republic of Panama.
    Scientific classification
    Kingdom: Animalia
    Phylum: Chordata
    Class: Mammalia
    Subclass: Theria
    Infraclass: Eutheria
    Superorder: Xenarthra
    Order: Pilosa
    Suborder: Folivora
    Delsuc, Catzeflis, Stanhope, and Douzery, 2001
    Families

    Bradypodidae
    Megalonychidae
    Megatheriidae
    Mylodontidae
    Nothrotheriidae
    Orophodontidae
    Scelidotheriidae

    Sloths are medium-sized mammals belonging to the families Megalonychidae (two-toed sloth) and Bradypodidae (three-toed sloth), classified into six species.[citation needed] They are part of the order Pilosa and are therefore related to armadillos and anteaters, which sport a similar set of specialized claws. Sloths are arboreal (tree dwelling) residents of the jungles of Central and South America, and are known for being slow-moving, and hence named "sloths".

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    Taxonomy and names[link]

    The sloth's taxonomic suborder is Folivora, while some call it Phyllophaga. Both names mean "leaf-eaters"; derived from Latin and Greek respectively. Names for the animals used by tribes in Ecuador include Ritto, Rit and Ridette, mostly forms of the word "sleep", "eat" and "dirty" from Tagaeri tribe of Huaorani.

    Ecology[link]

    Sloths are classified as folivores as the bulk of their diet consists mostly of buds, tender shoots, and leaves, mainly of Cecropia trees. Some two-toed sloths have been documented as eating insects, small reptiles and birds as a small supplement to their diet. Linnaeus's two-toed sloth has recently been documented eating human faeces from open latrines.[2] They have made extraordinary adaptations to an arboreal browsing lifestyle. Leaves, their main food source, provide very little energy or nutrition and do not digest easily. Sloths therefore have large, specialized, slow-acting stomachs with multiple compartments in which symbiotic bacteria break down the tough leaves. As much as two-thirds of a well-fed sloth's body-weight consists of the contents of its stomach, and the digestive process can take a month or more to complete.

    Even so, leaves provide little energy, and sloths deal with this by a range of economy measures: they have very low metabolic rates (less than half of that expected for a mammal of their size), and maintain low body temperatures when active (30–34 °C or 86–93 °F), and still lower temperatures when resting.

    Although unable to survive outside the tropical rainforests of South and Central America, within that environment sloths are outstandingly successful creatures. Four of the six living species are presently rated "least concern"; the maned three-toed sloth (Bradypus torquatus), which inhabits Brazil's dwindling Atlantic Forest, is classified as "endangered", while the island-dwelling pygmy three-toed sloth (B. pygmaeus) is critically endangered.

    Physiology[link]

    Sloth fur exhibits specialized functions: the outer hairs grow in a direction opposite from that of other mammals. In most mammals hairs grow toward the extremities, but because sloths spend so much time with their legs above their bodies, their hairs grow away from the extremities in order to provide protection from the elements while the sloth hangs upside down. In most conditions, the fur hosts two species of symbiotic cyanobacteria, which provide camouflage.[3][4] Because of the cyanobacteria, sloth fur is a small ecosystem of its own, hosting many species of non-parasitic insects. Sloths have short, flat heads; big eyes; a short snout; long legs; and tiny ears. They might have stubby tails (6–7 cm long), but not in all species. Altogether, sloths' bodies usually are anywhere between 50 and 60 cm long.

    Sloths' claws serve as their only natural defence. A cornered sloth may swipe at its attackers in an effort to scare them away or wound them. Despite sloths' apparent defencelessness, predators do not pose special problems: sloths blend in with the trees and, moving only slowly, do not attract attention. Only during their infrequent visits to ground level do they become vulnerable. The main predators of sloths are the jaguar, the harpy eagle, and humans. The majority of recorded sloth deaths in Costa Rica are due to contact with electrical lines and poachers. Despite their adaptation to living in trees, sloths make competent swimmers. Their claws also provide a further unexpected deterrent to human hunters: when hanging upside-down in a tree they are held in place by the claws themselves and often do not fall down even if shot from below.

    Brown-throated three-toed sloth (Bradypus variegatus) in a Costa Rican rehabilitation centre

    Sloths move only when necessary and even then very slowly: they have about a quarter as much muscle tissue as other animals of similar weight. They can move at a marginally higher speed if they are in immediate danger from a predator (4 m or 13 feet per minute for the three-toed sloth), but they burn large amounts of energy doing so. Their specialised hands and feet have long, curved claws to allow them to hang upside-down from branches without effort.[5] While they sometimes sit on top of branches, they usually eat, sleep, and even give birth hanging from limbs. They sometimes remain hanging from branches after death. On the ground the maximum speed of the three-toed sloth is 2 m or 6.5 feet per minute.[6]

    It had been thought that sloths were among the most somnolent animals, sleeping from 15 to 18 hours each day. Recently, however, Dr. Neil Rattenborg and his colleagues from the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology in Starnberg, Germany, published a study testing sloth sleep-patterns in the wild; this is the first study of its kind. The study indicated that sloths sleep just under 10 hours a day.[7]

    Three-toed sloth in the Dallas World Aquarium

    Sloths go to the ground to urinate and defecate about once a week, digging a hole and covering it afterwards. They go to the same spot each time and are vulnerable to predation while doing so. The reason for this risky behaviour is unknown, although some believe that it is to avoid making noise while defecating from up high that would attract predators.[8] Consistent with this, they reportedly relieve themselves from their branches during storms in the rainy season.[9] Another possible explanation is that the middens provide the sloths with one of their few methods of finding one another for breeding purposes, since their sense of smell is far more acute than their eyesight or hearing.[10] It has also been pointed out that individual sloths tend to spend the bulk of their time feeding on a single "modal" tree; by burying their excreta near the trunk of that tree, they may help nourish it.[11]

    Infant sloths normally cling to their mothers' fur, but occasionally fall off.[citation needed] Sloths are very sturdily built and rarely die from a fall. In some cases they die from a fall indirectly because the mothers prove unwilling to leave the safety of the trees to retrieve the young.[citation needed] Females normally bear one baby every year, but sometimes sloths' low level of movement actually keeps females from finding males for longer than one year.

    Almost all mammals have seven cervical vertebrae or "neck bones" (including those with very short necks, such as elephants or whales, and those with very long necks, such as giraffes). The few exceptions include manatees and two-toed sloths, which each have only six cervical vertebrae, and three-toed sloths with nine cervical vertebrae.[12]

    Evolution[link]

    Sloths are members of the superorder Xenarthra, a group of mammals that appeared approximately 60 million years ago,[13] although at least one source puts the date at which sloths and related animals broke off from other placental mammals at about 100 million years ago.[14] Also included among the Xenarthra are anteaters and armadillos. The earliest xenarthrans were arboreal herbivores with sturdy spines, fused pelvises, stubby teeth and small brains.[13]

    The living sloths belong to one of two families, known as the Megalonychidae ("two-toed" sloths) and the Bradypodidae (three-toed sloths). All living sloths have in fact three toes; the "two-toed" sloths, however, have only two fingers. Two-toed sloths are generally faster moving than three-toed sloths. Both types tend to occupy the same forests: in most areas, one species of three-toed sloth and one species of the larger two-toed type will jointly predominate.

    However, their adaptations belie the actual relationships of the living sloth genera, which are more distant from each other than their outward similarity suggests. The common ancestor of the two genera apparently lived 35–40 million years ago, making the living forms stunning examples of convergent or parallel evolution.[15] The two-toed sloths of today are far more closely related to one particular group of ground sloths than to the living three-toed sloths. Whether these ground-dwelling Megalonychidae were descended from tree-climbing ancestors or whether the two-toed sloths are really miniature ground sloths converted (or reverted) to arboreal life cannot presently be determined to satisfaction. The latter possibility seems slightly more likely, given the fact that the small ground sloths Acratocnus and Neocnus which were also able to climb are among the closer relatives of the two-toed sloths, and that these together were related to the huge ground sloths Megalonyx and Megalocnus.

    The evolutionary history of the three-toed sloths is not well known. No particularly close relatives, ground-dwelling or not, have yet been identified.

    The ground sloths do not constitute a monophyletic group. Rather, they make up a number of lineages, and as far as is known until the Holocene most sloths were in fact ground-dwellers. The famous Megatherium, for example, belonged to a lineage of ground sloths that was not very close to the living sloths and their ground-living relatives, like the small Neocnus or the massive Megalonyx. Meanwhile, Mylodon, among the last ground sloths to disappear, was only very distantly related to either of these.

    Classification[link]

    Suborder Folivora (sloths)

    Extinctions[link]

    Until geologically recent times, ground sloths such as Megatherium[16] lived in South America and parts of North America, but along with many other animals they disappeared shortly after the arrival of humans on the continent.[16] Much evidence suggests that human hunting contributed to the extinction of the American megafauna, like that of far northern Asia, Australia, New Zealand, and Madagascar.[16] Simultaneous climate change that came with the end of the last Ice age may have also played a role in some cases. However, the fact that ground sloths survived on the Antilles long after they had died out on the mainland points toward human activities as the agency of extinction.

    Gallery[link]

    References[link]

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    5. ^ Mendel, 1979; 1981a; 1981b; 1985
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    7. ^ Briggs, Helen (2008-05-13). "Article "Sloth's Lazy Image 'A Myth'"". BBC News. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7396356.stm. Retrieved 2010-05-21. 
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    12. ^ Narita, Yuichi; Kuratani, Shigeru (2005). "Evolution of the Vertebral Formulae in Mammals: A Perspective on Developmental Constraints". Journal of Experimental Zoology (Mol Dev Evol) 304 (2): 91–106. DOI:10.1002/jez.b.21029. PMID 15660398. 
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    16. ^ a b c Wildfacts "Megatherium". BBC Science & Nature. http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/wildfacts/factfiles/456.shtml Wildfacts. Retrieved 2007-01-09. 

    External links[link]

    http://wn.com/Sloth

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    Kristen Bell
    Head and shoulders of young, blond woman with hair curling below her shoulders, smiling.
    Bell at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival
    Born Kristen Anne Bell
    (1980-07-18) July 18, 1980 (age 31)
    Huntington Woods, Michigan, United States
    Occupation Actress
    Years active 1992–present
    Partner Dax Shepard (2007-present)

    Kristen Anne Bell (born July 18, 1980) is an American actress. In 2001, she made her Broadway debut as Becky Thatcher in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. After moving to Los Angeles, Bell landed various television guest appearances and small film parts before appearing in a lead role in the David Mamet film Spartan. Her first film role was an uncredited appearance in Polish Wedding. She gained fame and critical praise as the title role on the acclaimed television series Veronica Mars from September 2004 to May 2007.

    During her time on Veronica Mars, Bell appeared as Mary Lane in the film Reefer Madness: The Movie Musical, a reprise of the role she had played in the New York theatrical production of the eponymous musical upon which the film was based. She also portrayed the lead role in Pulse, a remake of a J-Horror film. In 2007, she joined the cast of Heroes, playing the character Elle Bishop, and Gossip Girl as the off-screen titular narrator. In 2008, she played Sarah Marshall in the comedy film Forgetting Sarah Marshall. She has since appeared in a number of comedy films, such as Fanboys, Couples Retreat, and When in Rome. Bell was also the voice of Cora in Astro Boy and is the voice and face of Lucy Stillman in the Assassin's Creed video game series. Bell has received a Satellite Award and Saturn Award, and has been nominated several times for Television Critics Association Awards and Teen Choice Awards.[citation needed]

    Contents

    Early life and family[link]

    Bell was born and raised in Huntington Woods, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit. Her mother, Lorelei (née Frygier), is a registered nurse, and her father, Tom Bell, is the television news director for WOAI-TV in San Antonio.[1] Her parents divorced when she was two years old, and she has two half sisters, Sara and Jody, from her father's second marriage. Bell has strabismus, which affects her right eye. She inherited it from her mother, who had it corrected as a child. Bell claims that if she does not get enough sleep, it aggravates the ailment. She calls her right eye "Wonky".[2][3]

    Bell stated that she did not like her first name at the age of four. Her mother convinced Bell to go by her middle name of Anne instead; she used the name Annie until high school.[4]

    Just before her freshman year of high school, Bell's parents decided to pull her from the public school system.[5] She then attended Shrine Catholic High School in nearby Royal Oak, where she took part in the drama and music club.[6] During her time at the school, she won the starring role in the school's 1997 production of The Wizard of Oz as Dorothy Gale[7] and also appeared in productions of Fiddler on the Roof (1995), Lady Be Good (1996), and Li'l Abner (1998). In 1998, the year she graduated, Bell was named the yearbook's "Best Looking Girl" by senior class vote.[8]

    When Bell was 17, her best friend, whom she met at age 11 during a Detroit community theater production, was killed in an automobile accident. Bell said that it was "both the best and worst thing that has ever happened to me. [...] Once you learn not to take people for granted, you live a lot happier life".[9]

    Shortly after her high school graduation, Bell moved to New York City to attend the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University,[4] majoring in musical theater.[10] In 2001, during her senior year at New York University, Bell left a few credits shy of graduating[11] to take a role in the Broadway musical version of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.

    Career[link]

    Early work (1992–2003)[link]

    In 1992, Bell went to her first audition and won a dual role as a banana and a tree[9] in a suburban Detroit theater's production of Raggedy Ann and Andy.[4] Her mother had established her with an agent before Bell was 13, which allowed her to appear in newspaper advertisements for several Detroit retailers and television commercials. She also began private acting lessons.[4] In 1998, she appeared with an uncredited role in the locally filmed movie Polish Wedding.

    In 2001, Bell left New York University to take a key role as Becky Thatcher in the short-lived Broadway musical of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. That same year, she made her credited film debut in Pootie Tang. Her one line in the film was cut and her appearance exists only as a scene shown during the credit sequence.[12] Additionally, she auditioned for the television series Smallville for the role of Chloe Sullivan, a part eventually won by Allison Mack.[13] In 2002, she appeared in the Broadway revival of The Crucible with Liam Neeson, Angela Bettis and Laura Linney. Bell then moved to Los Angeles, California in 2002 because of her friendship with writers Kevin Murphy and Dan Studney,[12] and appeared in a handful of television shows as a special guest, finding trouble gaining a recurring role in a television series. Bell had "tested like eight times and booked nothing and every show [she] tested for got picked up," including auditions for Skin and a Norm Macdonald series.[9]

    In 2003, she landed a role in the Hallmark Channel movie The King and Queen of Moonlight Bay. Bell appeared on the show Punk'd.

    Breakout (2004–06)[link]

    Head and shoulders shot of wide-eyed, young blond woman smiling into the camera. left
    Bell on the set of Veronica Mars

    In 2004, Bell appeared in the Lifetime television movie Gracie's Choice, which received one of the network's highest ratings.[11] She made her debut in a theatrically released film, with David Mamet's Spartan, as Laura Newton, the kidnapped daughter of the U.S. President, acting alongside Val Kilmer. Bell also guest-starred on the HBO's drama Deadwood in a two-episode story arc ("Bullock Returns to the Camp" and "Suffer the Little Children").

    At 24 she won the role of the title character in UPN's drama Veronica Mars, which was launched in the fall of 2004. Created by Rob Thomas, the series starred Bell as the seventeen year old detective Veronica, which put her alongside actors Enrico Colantoni who played her father, Jason Dohring, Percy Daggs III and Ryan Hansen. Bell noted the parallels between the character of Veronica and her own life — Bell's parents had divorced and her best friend had also died, like that of Veronica.[11] The series earned positive reviews from television critics, as did Bell's performance. Some critics felt that she was overlooked, however, and deserved an Emmy Award nomination.[14][15][16]

    In 2005, Bell starred in Reefer Madness: The Movie Musical, reprising the role she played in the short-lived 2001 off-broadway musical. The musical was a spoof of the 1936 exploitation film of the same name. Reefer Madness: The Movie Musical debuted on the Showtime network on April 16, 2005. On September 18, 2005, Bell performed the theme song from Fame on the "Emmy Idol" portion of the 57th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards. She and the cast of Veronica Mars were nominated for two Teen Choice Awards in 2005: "Choice Breakout Actress" and "Choice Breakout TV Show".

    In 2006, Bell won the Saturn Award for "Best Actress on Television" for her acting on Veronica Mars, while the series was nominated for "Best Network Television Show". Aside from working on Veronica Mars, in April, Bell starred as Gracie in Fifty Pills, an entry for the Tribeca Film Festival. She appeared in a short independent film called The Receipt and the horror film Roman, which was directed by her The Crucible co-star Angela Bettis. Released on August 11, 2006, Pulse starred Bell as the lead Mattie. A remake of the Japanese horror film Kairo, the film grossed US$27.9 million worldwide,[17] however it garnered negative response from critics. Frank Scheck of The Hollywood Reporter commented, "despite the starring presence of Kristen Bell, [the] young actress has far less interesting material to work with here than she does as [the character] "Veronica Mars.""[18]

    Recent and future roles (2007–present)[link]

    Veronica Mars continued on UPN until the third season, in which the show was renewed and returned on the newly created The CW. On January 19, 2007 CW Entertainment President Dawn Ostroff announced that, while she was pleased with the gradual improvement of Veronica Mars's ratings, the series would be put on hiatus after February sweeps to air a new reality series, Pussycat Dolls Present. On May 17, 2007 Ostroff announced the cancellation of the series.[19] The two-hour series finale aired in the United States on May 22, 2007, and on June 11, 2007 Thomas officially announced in an email to TV Guide's Michael Ausiello that Veronica Mars had been canceled by the CW.[20] A Veronica Mars feature film and comic book series continuation had been discussed,[21] and for a short time there was talk of another collaboration between Bell and creator Thomas that would be unrelated to the Veronica Mars series.[19]

    Following the cancellation of Veronica Mars, Bell had voiced interest in appearing on Heroes because she was a fan prior to being cast.[22] On July 29, 2007, during a train ride back to Los Angeles from the San Diego Comic-Con with Heroes actors Zachary Quinto and Masi Oka, and writers from the series, the writers had mentioned that if she "ever want[ed] to come on Heroes, give us [writers] a call," to which Bell said she would "love to."[23] She was also spoken to about a role on Lost, but turned down the role[24][25] to portray Charlotte Staples Lewis.[26] Announced in August 2007, Bell was to portray Elle Bishop, a "mysterious young lady" with an "awesome power".[23] She did not have to audition for the role of Elle,[12] who made her first appearance in an October 2007 episode, and will appear in at least thirteen episodes during the run of the series.[27] The casting of Bell, as Heroes creator Tim Kring explains, "was not easy to pull off", but because of the large ensemble cast of the series and multiple story arcs, "we found a way to jump into a small window in [Bell's] schedule."[27] Concurrently with filming on Heroes, she narrated as title character in the CW series Gossip Girl.

    Shortly after the cancellation of Veronica Mars in early 2007, Bell filmed on location in Hawaii for her starring role as the title character in the Judd Apatow comedy Forgetting Sarah Marshall. She noted that the improvisational comedy in the film was "a lovely experience".[12] The film, written by and also starring Jason Segel, was released theatrically on April 18, 2008. Bell lent her voice and likeness to the video game Assassin's Creed which was released on November 13, 2007 for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 and April 8, 2008 for the PC.[28] Bell reprises her role of Lucy in Assassin's Creed II released on November 17, 2009, and again in Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood, released on 16 November 2010.[29] In the spring of 2006, she finished filming the Star Wars-themed comedy Fanboys, which had its release date pushed to January 14, 2008. This was due to additional funding given to director Kyle Newman to shoot new scenes, however, the busy schedules of the actors only allowed for filming in September 2007, thus moving the release date to accommodate that.[30] Bell will voice the character of Marybelle in the animated feature Sheepish, which also has a 2008 release date.[31] She also starred in the 2009 comedies Serious Moonlight, alongside Meg Ryan, and Couples Retreat, which chronicled four couples who partake in therapy sessions at a tropical island resort. Jason Bateman played her husband.[32] On March 31, 2008, Bell began shooting for the Mark Steven Johnson-written Disney film When in Rome in locations in Rome and New York; the film was released in 2010.[33] Bell reprised her role as Sarah Marshall for a cameo appearance in the film Get Him to the Greek, a spin-off sequel from Forgetting Sarah Marshall, released June 4, 2010.

    Bell has also said that when she is free from film and television roles, she would like to perform on stage again.[34] She co-starred with singers Christina Aguilera and Cher in the movie-musical Burlesque which was released on Thanksgiving in 2010.

    Bell had a cameo in Scream 4, which was released on April 15, 2011.[35] She is also attached to the films Everybody Loves Whales and Dance of the Mirlitons.[36]

    She has also appeared in the music video for "Madder Red" by Brooklyn experimental rock band Yeasayer.

    Bell portrays the role of "Mary Magdalene" in The Truth & Life Dramatized Audio New Testament Bible, a 22-hour, celebrity-voiced, fully dramatized audio New Testament which uses the RSV-CE translation.

    She is the female lead on the Showtime series House of Lies, which premiered on January 8, 2012, and is directed by Stephen Hopkins.

    In the media[link]

    In 2006, Bell was selected "World's Sexiest Vegetarian" on PETA's yearly poll.[37] She was placed #68 on Maxim's 2005 "Hot 100" list,[38] #11 in Maxim's 2006 "Hot 100" list,[39] and #46 in Maxim's 2007 "Hot 100" list in which she was stated to have "single-handedly saved the CW from becoming the worst network ever."[40] In 2006, Maxim also placed Bell at the top of the "Fall TV's Criminally Sexy Investigators" List.[37] In 2008, she was featured at #59 on Ask Men's Top 99 Women of 2008 List.[41] Reflecting on her admitted popularity with "geeks", Bell was voted the fourth sexiest woman on TV by the staff at Wizard magazine.[42]

    She stated to have never thought of herself as womanly because she "always play[ed roles] and look[ed] and act[ed] 10 years younger than [she is]", however as she explains, "Something magical happened when I turned 25 — I looked in the mirror and was like, You might not get carded for an R-rated movie anymore. Like I didn't have a little stick figure anymore."[43] Bell has said that many of the characters she has played are tomboys because she was "not homely enough to play the nerdy girl and not nearly pretty enough to play the pretty girl".[43]

    Bell has been associated with the idea that "nerdy is the new cool", and she explains, "what was previously perceived as nerdy is now viewed as original. What I like about nerdiness, geekiness, is it doesn't really matter what you're into — it just means you're not a follower."[43] She has also said, "I love nerds. Comic-Con junkies are the tastemakers of tomorrow. Isn't that funny? The tables have turned."[12] Vanessa Juarez of Entertainment Weekly commented that Bell's role on Veronica Mars, Heroes and as a Star Wars fanatic in Fanboys has "solidif[ied] her placement at the center of the geek universe", while Rodney Rothman stated, "I guess she's cornered the market on losers."[44] Bell's work is often compared to Sarah Michelle Gellar's portrayal of the titular character on the cult television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.[45] Frank Scheck of The Hollywood Reporter stated that Bell was "arguably the television successor [to Gellar's portrayal of Buffy] when it comes to fighting bad guys." Bell is sometimes confused with Lauren Conrad from the show The Hills. "Yeah, sometimes fans yell, 'Hey, Lauren' to me, but usually from a distance," said Kristen.[18]

    Despite "new celebrity" status, Bell claims that she is not concerned because "no one ever recognizes [her] anyway". As Bell explains, "I hang out with Hayden quite a bit — they never take pictures of me. I just step to the side, and I push myself in front of her when she wants to get out of it, or put her in the car."[43] Bell is a recurring guest on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, appearing in interviews as well as sketches. On the Late Late Show, she is shown to have garnered a humorous hostility towards Craig's robot skeleton sidekick Geoff Peterson, claiming that she had wanted to be Craig's sidekick on his show and taking it upon herself to cut Geoff down every chance she gets. Both Bell and Geoff Peterson appeared with Ferguson during the five Late Late shows filmed in France.[46]

    In January 2011 it was announced that Bell would be the new face of Neutrogena.[47]

    Personal life[link]

    Bell leans forward over a table, signing autographs.
    Bell signing in January 2005 at San Francisco's Metreon

    At age 11, Bell became a vegetarian.[37] In an interview with PETA, Bell stated, "I have always been an animal lover. I had a hard time disassociating the animals I cuddled with — dogs and cats, for example — from the animals on my plate, and I never really cared for the taste of meat. I always loved my Brussels sprouts!"[48] During her time in Michigan, Bell fostered animals from Michigan Humane Society and she now supports the San Diego-based Helen Woodward Animal Center. Bell often attends fund raisers for the ASPCA and other non-profit organizations dedicated to protecting animals. She owns a Welsh Corgi-Chow Chow mix named Lola, a Welsh Corgi-Chihuahua mix named Shakey, and a black Labrador Retriever named Sadie, who was 11 years old when she was rescued from Hurricane Katrina and adopted by Bell in 2005.[5][49]

    She and many of those who worked on Veronica Mars, including personal friend Ryan Hansen, are involved with the charity organization Invisible Children Inc. The goal of the organization is to create awareness regarding the plight of Northern Ugandans who are caught in the midst of a civil war between the government and Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army.[50] Bell has also done a public service announcement for Do Something's Healthy Living Campaign.[51]

    Bell supported and campaigned for Barack Obama during the 2008 presidential election. Along with Rashida Jones, she visited college campuses in Missouri to discuss the candidates and encourage voter registration.[52][53][54] Bell has shown her support for the Writers Guild of America in the writer's strike, appearing in the picket lines in December 2007 stating, "the writers are just looking for some fairness."[55]

    In 2007, Bell ended a five-year relationship with former fiancé Kevin Mann,[43] and went on to date actor Dax Shepard.[56] As of January 2010, she is engaged to Shepard.[57] She told Complex magazine that dating "makes me want to vomit. And not out of grossness — OK, a little bit out of grossness, but just nerves." Bell explains, "I've always been a serial monogamist."[43]

    As she is a Detroit native, she is also an avid fan of the Detroit Red Wings hockey team.[58]

    She is also a lover of sloths. When her now fiance Shepard got her a sloth for her birthday, she broke down in tears.[59]

    Filmography[link]

    Film
    Year Title Role Notes
    1998 Polish Wedding Teenage Girl (uncredited)
    2001 Pootie Tang Record Executive's Daughter
    2002 People Are Dead Angela's Friend #1
    2002 Cat Returns, TheThe Cat Returns Hiromi Voice, English version
    2004 Spartan Laura Newton
    2005 Reefer Madness Mary Lane
    2005 Deepwater Nurse Laurie
    2005 Receipt, TheThe Receipt Pretty Girl Short film
    2006 Fifty Pills Gracie
    2006 Pulse Mattie
    2006 Roman The Girl / Isis
    2007 Flatland: The Movie Hex (voice) Short film
    2008 Fanboys Zoe
    2008 Forgetting Sarah Marshall Sarah Marshall
    2009 Serious Moonlight Sara
    2009 Astro Boy Cora (voice)
    2009 Couples Retreat Cynthia
    2010 When in Rome Beth
    2010 Get Him to the Greek Sarah Marshall Cameo
    2010 You Again Marni Olsen
    2010 Burlesque Nikki
    2011 Scream 4 Chloe Cameo
    2012 Safety Not Guaranteed Belinda St. Sing
    2012 Big Miracle Jill Gerard[60]
    2012 Movie 43 Supergirl Post-production
    2012 Flatland 2: Sphereland Hex Post-production
    2012 Outrun Post-production
    2012 Dance of the Mirlitons Corinne In production
    Television
    Year Title Role Notes
    2003 Shield, TheThe Shield Jessica Hintel Episode: "The Quick Fix"
    2003 American Dreams Amy Fielding Episode: "Act of Contrition"
    2003 O'Keefes, TheThe O'Keefes Virginia's Owner Episode: "Substitute Teacher"
    Episode: "Jobs"
    2003 King and Queen of Moonlight Bay, TheThe King and Queen of Moonlight Bay Alison Dodge TV movie
    2003 Everwood Stacey Wilson Episode: "Extra Ordinary"
    2004 Gracie's Choice Gracie Thompson TV movie
    2004 Deadwood Flora Anderson Episode: "Bullock Returns to the Camp"
    Episode: "Suffer the Little Children"
    2004–2007 Veronica Mars Veronica Mars 64 episodes
    2005 Last Days of America Friend in New York #1 Video
    2007–2008 Heroes Elle Bishop 12 episodes
    2007–present Gossip Girl Gossip Girl (voice) Series regular
    2009 Cleveland Show, TheThe Cleveland Show Mandy (voice) Episode: "Da Doggone Daddy-Daughter Dinner Dance"
    2009 Party Down Uda Bengt Episode: "Stennheiser-Pong Wedding Reception"
    2010 Party Down Uda Bengt Episode: "Party Down Company Picnic"
    2010 Astro Boy vs. The Junkyard Pirates Cora (voice) Video short
    2010 Lost Masterpieces of Pornography June Crenshaw Video short
    2011 Glenn Martin, DDS Hayley (voice) Episode: "Videogame Wizard"
    2011 Robot Chicken Hermione Granger / Sara Lee (voice) Episode: "Some Like It Hitman"
    2012 House of Lies Jeannie Van Der Hooven 12 episodes
    2012 Unsupervised Megan (voice) Episode: "Pilot"
    Video games
    Year Title Role
    2007 Assassin's Creed Lucy Stillman
    2009 Astro Boy: The Video Game Cora
    2009 Assassin's Creed II Lucy Stillman
    2010 Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood Lucy Stillman
    Theatre
    Year Title Role Notes
    2001 Adventures of Tom Sawyer, TheThe Adventures of Tom Sawyer Becky Thatcher
    2002 Crucible, TheThe Crucible Susanna Walcott
    2003 Sneaux
    2004 Little Night Music, AA Little Night Music

    Awards[link]

    Wins[link]

    2006 
    Saturn Award, for Veronica Mars
    Jury Prize at the Austin Fantastic Fest, for Roman
    Family Film Award, for Veronica Mars (shared with Enrico Colantoni)
    2005 
    Satellite Award, for Reefer Madness: The Movie Musical

    Nominations[link]

    2009 
    Teen Choice Award, for Heroes
    Saturn Award, for Heroes
    MTV Movie Award, for Forgetting Sarah Marshall
    2008 
    Teen Choice Award, for Forgetting Sarah Marshall
    2007 
    Saturn Award, for Veronica Mars
    2006 
    Satellite Award, for Veronica Mars
    Teen Choice Award, for Veronica Mars
    2005 
    Satellite Award, for Veronica Mars
    Saturn Award, for Veronica Mars
    Teen Choice Award, for Veronica Mars
    TCA Award, for Veronica Mars

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