Comments on: Private: How slow is the world’s slowest animal? http://earthsky.org/biodiversity/sloths-slow-extinction A Clear Voice for Science Mon, 22 Mar 2010 05:28:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Matt http://earthsky.org/biodiversity/sloths-slow-extinction/comment-page-1#comment-1948 Matt Wed, 11 Apr 2007 08:09:56 +0000 http://208.96.63.114/?p=960#comment-1948 <p>Finally! Scientific evidence to support every husband’s reluctance to get busy with the wife’s latest “Honey-do” list.</p> <p>I view your website regularly and encourage all I can to do the same. I’m especially avid to do that with younger people…the future has always relied on the next generation.</p> <p>Hopefully, this generation is finally waking up to the always fragile place called Earth.</p> Finally! Scientific evidence to support every husband’s reluctance to get busy with the wife’s latest “Honey-do” list.

I view your website regularly and encourage all I can to do the same. I’m especially avid to do that with younger people…the future has always relied on the next generation.

Hopefully, this generation is finally waking up to the always fragile place called Earth.

]]> By: John Hatle http://earthsky.org/biodiversity/sloths-slow-extinction/comment-page-1#comment-1947 John Hatle Wed, 11 Apr 2007 06:17:36 +0000 http://208.96.63.114/?p=960#comment-1947 <p>I find it very interesting that eagles use motion to identify potential prey, and that sloths avoid predation by moving slowly. However, I was unable to find any primary papers on this topic. Has anyone collected data on this hypothesis? If anyone knows of papers on this topic, I would love to get the citations.</p> <p>We have data supporting the defensive role of slow anti-predatory movement in a sluggish grasshopper, in encounters with frogs. These papers are available on my Web site (www.unf.edu/~jhatle) under Publications (Hatle & Faragher. 1998. Oecologia, Hatle et al. 2002. Evol Ecol).</p> I find it very interesting that eagles use motion to identify potential prey, and that sloths avoid predation by moving slowly. However, I was unable to find any primary papers on this topic. Has anyone collected data on this hypothesis? If anyone knows of papers on this topic, I would love to get the citations.

We have data supporting the defensive role of slow anti-predatory movement in a sluggish grasshopper, in encounters with frogs. These papers are available on my Web site (www.unf.edu/~jhatle) under Publications (Hatle & Faragher. 1998. Oecologia, Hatle et al. 2002. Evol Ecol).

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