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Show World's Laziest The sloth lives upside down. Hooklike claws on his feet keep him suspended in a tree, where he eats leaves and fruit. Often he never gets out of the tree on which he is born, writes a correspondent to the Washington Post. If something forces him to quit his home, he merely slides to the end of a limb, stretches out a foot and waits for the wind to blow him near enough another tree to hook it. Sloths are the despair of those who try to domesticate do-mesticate them. One owner, tired of his almost motionless pet, held it under a tree to liberate it. It was more than an hour before the creature crea-ture shifted its feet enough to grip .the limb they leaned against. |