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sloth
noun as in laziness
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Mr Tardy captured a brown‑throated three‑toed sloth clinging to a barbed wire post after crossing a road.
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They say giant sloths walking the land were an easy target for the first human hunters.
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Their blood temperature fluctuates with the ambient temperature, a rare trait among mammals that they share with the sloth.
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A sloth has had pioneering dental surgery to cure toothache.
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And so much more illness is on the rise, from Victorian-era diseases like tuberculosis to novel tropical diseases like “sloth fever.”
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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