Luckily, Toast the Narcoleptic Doodle Dog found that unlikely connection during a meet-and-greet with some truly incredible ...
This week we present animal trivia that you can use to amaze your friends. Sloths move so slowly (in a tree it only moves nine feet in one minute) that it needs good defensive camouflage. It has green ...
This uplifting post from discover.animal shows some good Samaritans helping a lucky sloth make its way across traffic and ...
As we can see in the video, their hair can also sometimes look green due to the algae that grows in it. Sloths are known for being incredibly slow. In fact, they are the slowest mammals in the world.
Their slow pace is a survival strategy. By moving slowly, sloths can conserve energy and blend in with their environment, making them less noticeable to predators. Their fur even hosts algae that ...
(Find out more about the Pistol Shrimp, the James Bond of the sea, here.) Sloths may seem like slow and lazy creatures, but they have a fascinating symbiotic relationship with algae. The slow-moving ...
The blooms that produce the toxin result from a specific type of algae. Once the toxin is produced, smaller fish can eat the algae. Bigger animals like sea lions can then become sick from the ...
Wildlife officials believe a toxic algae bloom is responsible for sickening several California sea lions in Malibu. The California Wildlife Center said over the weekend that it had received 14 ...
Not only can algae be unsightly, but it can also damage the integrity of your wooden fence over time, leaving it vulnerable to the elements. Algae is a green, sometimes slimy organism that loves ...
Toxic algae off the coast of Malibu is likely sickening sea lions, causing the large marine mammals to experience seizures and comatose states, according to a nonprofit wildlife rehabilitation center.
Their analysis is one of the first to document a causal link between climate and algae. They found that climate caused changes in algal biomass in about a third of tested lakes (34%), but in ...