Resting Here Until Day Breaks And Shadows Fall and Darkness Disappears…
Sloth furs grow in the opposite direction from all other mammals, away from the extremities. That’s because sloths mostly hang upside down. They do not groom themselves and so algae grows in their fur. The algae colors them green, a camouflage amongst the high leaves, protection from the harpy eagle and the jaguar. Beetles and moths live off the algae, spending their whole lives feeding off the fur of a single sloth. A sloth will spend most its life feeding on the leaves of a single tree. Once a week the sloth will climb down to urinate and defecate in a hole dug by the tree roots. It is their way of saying thank you. When the male sloth hears the blood-curdling mating call of the female sloth, he will rush towards her at 2 m per minute, up to 200 m per day.
I am a sloth too, racing toward implosion in the Milky Way. Racing toward the end and the beginning. Bear, I hope you’re having a good Sunday!