🍃 The Slow Lane
Reading at Sloth Pace: In Defence of Doing One Thing Slowly
Every post here carries two reading times: yours, and the sloth estimate. The second one is the honest one.
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🌍 Conservation
One Island, One Sloth, Fewer Than a Hundred Left
The pygmy three-toed sloth lives on one small Panamanian island, in a fringe of mangroves, and nowhere else on Earth.
💠 Dragonfly Field Notes
Field Notes: A Pond in June, Hour by Hour
Nothing rare, nothing dramatic. Just a small pond, one warm day, and everything that happened over it.
🌊 Wings & Water
The Insect That Crosses an Ocean Without Any Individual Making the Trip
Pantala flavescens rides the monsoon between India and Africa in generational relays. No single glider sees both shores.
🦥 Sloth Life
Why a Sloth Swims Three Times Faster Than It Walks
On the ground a sloth is a rumour of movement. In water it is genuinely competent.
💠 Dragonfly Field Notes
Compound Eyes With 30,000 Facets, and Almost No Blind Spot
A dragonfly's head is mostly eye, and its eye is mostly a targeting computer.