Sloths, of course, are one of the most adorable animals on the planet simply because they always look overtired, and they don't want to harm anyone, or anything.You may look at a sloth and think that it is an incredibly slow land animal, when in reality, sloths are extremely slow land animals, who are also extremely slow swimmers.Well, sloths are slow in the water compared to other animal swimmers. Sloths can actually move three times faster in the water than they can on land and hold their breath for up to 40 minutes!
Not everyone knows that sloths are very capable swimmers, which leads to people trying to "rescue" sloths and put them back on dry land. Which means the sloth will have a long journey back to where you picked them up at.So if you see a sloth swimming, leave it alone to follow its dreams.
As we careen toward a post-antibiotic future medical researchers and scientists are looking for the next generation of cures and treatments by poking through nature's medicine cabinet, the jungle. A midst the jungle's overwhelming fornication and overwhelming growth hangs one of nature's calmest creatures: the humble sloth. As Thomas Morton, Vice News reporter said “sloths, named by every language they exist in for the sin of being worthlessly lazy, may be so lazy they end up saving us.”,Researchers who took a long hard look at what’s populating sloths in Panama have discovered that, among the flora and fauna of sloth hair, there are fungi growing that are resistant to the parasites that cause malaria, human breast cancer cell lines, and a range of pathogenic bacteria.the sloth's hairs were cut up and put into cultures, where the fungi could grow for a few weeks and then be closely examined.The results were 84 different fungal isolates, some of which, the researchers believe, had never been seen before. Using ethyl acetate to make extracts from the fungi, the researchers found two extracts that inhibited the growth of one of the parasites that causes malaria in humans, eight that inhibit the trypanosoma that causes Chagas disease, and 15 that were highly active against the MCF-7 breast cancer cell line.The next generation of medicines might be culturing on a sloth's still back right now!
