Birds Feast on Bugs Living in Sloth Fur. Back in May of last year, Kelsey Neam of Texas A&M University was studying the spatial ecology of three-toed sloths (Bradypus variegatus) in the cloud ...

As the sloth leaves fecal matter at the base of the tree, the bugs living in its fur lay their eggs in the pile of fresh dung, leaving their larvae to develop in the nutrient-rich environment. The ...

Ever since French naturalist Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, first described the sloth in 1749, the planet’s slowest moving mammal has had its work cut out for it.

A robot sloth will keep watch on animals and plants to protect them ... The bot could even be useful for precision agriculture, where it might spot bugs or diseases before human farmers do.

More than 20 people returning to the U.S. from Cuba have been infected with the Oropouche virus transmitted by bugs in recent months, federal health officials said. ... also known as sloth fever.