Started by Priya Natarajan (@priya_birds) ·
sloths are tiny ecosystems
Algae grow in their fur (they look green), moths live in their fur, and the moths lay eggs in sloth poop, which is why sloths climb down once a week to poop at the base of the tree. Everything about this is a bad deal for the sloth.
4 sources · 20 min down the hole
How I got here
- Started with
- “sloth fur algae moths”
- Ended at
- Trichophilus
The Trail
- “sloth fur algae moths” (google.com)
- Sloth (en.wikipedia.org)
- Sloth moth (en.wikipedia.org)
- Trichophilus (en.wikipedia.org)
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