| Edition |
Paperback edition. |
| Description |
ix, 198 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 20 cm |
| Note |
First published in hardback in Great Britain in 2018 by Atlantic Books. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
How old is the sloth? How do sloths have sex? How did a sloth save Dublin? The answers to these questions, and more, are found in this wonderfully entertaining celebration of the sloth. Walking readers through the sloth's evolutionary history - from the prehistoric ground sloth to modern pygmy - William Hartston reveals the sloth's fascinating journey from maligned mammal to cause célèbre. Playfully peppered with science and filled with factoids, Sloths is a love-letter to the most anachronistic, and just a little bit ridiculous, of animals. |
| Contents |
A sloth by any other name -- Two toes or three? -- The sloth that saved Dublin -- New sloths for old -- Are sloths slothful? -- Anatomy -- Sex and the solitary sloth -- The deadly sin -- Pooping -- The abominable slothman, and other myths -- Sloths eating, and eating sloths -- Sloth conservation -- Sloths in culture -- Oddments -- Costa Rica. |
| Subject |
Sloths.
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Sloths -- History.
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Sloths. (OCoLC)fst01120978
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| ISBN |
9781786494252 (paperback) |
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1786494256 (paperback) |
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