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Sloths carry an entire ecosystem in their fur – home to algae, fungi, insects & bacteria! These tiny organisms help them blend into the jungle’s greenery. 🦥 Discover more in the BBC Earth Fact Files 👉
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Sloth fur hosts pyralid moths that produce nitrogen-rich fertilizer for algae growth - a three-way symbiosis discovered by Pauli et al. (2014). The moths even synchronize their lifecycle with sloth bathroom breaks, laying eggs in their dung.
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