Sloths aren't lazy, or are they?

Sorry for all the link to news story type posts this week. What do you expect, me to actually put some effort into composing some hilarious prose for you? And at least there are some posts, unlike previous months.

Anyway Scientists have discovered that sloths aren't lazy, they are just slow. They say they aren't lazy, because they only sleep for 9.6 hours a day. That seems quite a lot to me! Is that really a measure of laziness though? How much you sleep?

The same survey also shows that pythons sleep for an impressive 18 hours a day. I've definitely got some respect for a python as a lazy animal. Every few days they have to hunt, which is lazy enough in itself. They just lie camouflaged and wait for a rodent to walk past. Then they just spend a few days sleeping and digesting. Easy. They are even too lazy to warm their own blood.

I think my favourite lazy animal is still the male lion though. He basically sleeps all day whilst his women look after the kids and go hunting for his food for him. Sure he has to fight off young pretenders now and again but other than that, brilliant. Plus they look cool.