Sloths are awesome.

Cucumbers and spaghetti are unlikely to get me to move, either. They should have offered him cupcakes.

That's too bad, really, because I am sure that had they been able to entice the sloth to climb the pole, he would have climbed back down, and let us all in on the secret to curing cancer, and/or renewable energy. Damn secretive sloths.

(actually, the idea of someone spending 3 years trying to get a sloth to move is alternately REALLY funny, and REALLY sad to me!)

This article has a picture, though I'm not sure what I'm looking at.

Yay sloths!

Mullacc - it's a sloth face, leaning on a tree and his creepy hand is holding onto the tree. Sloths kinda freak me out. Like their slowness is just a farce and one day they're just going to freak out and start killing people with their claws.

Sloths are supposed to be so slow moving that moss grows on their North side, just like on the trees.

richat, I can just imagine their journals:

Day 1: No measureable movement.
Day 2: See day 1.
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Day 547: See day 1.

"He wasn't remotely interested in furthering science,'' said Axel Burchardt, a university spokesman.

Axel does know that the sloth is a sloth and could give a shit about advancing human science.

"It's a Scandanavian name."

Sorry, private joke.

There should be an animal named after each of the seven deadly sins. That'd be awesome.