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As for hearing, the sloth is not so much deaf as uninterested in sound.

As for hearing, the sloth is not so much deaf as uninterested in sound.

Yann Martel
Sloth, Sound, Hearing
Yann Martel, Canongate Books (2007). “Life of Pi (Illustrated): Deluxe Illustrated Edition”, p.20, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

My zoology thesis was a functional analysis of the thyroid gland of the three-toed sloth. I chose the sloth because its demeanour - calm, quiet and introspective - did something to soothe my shattered self.

Yann Martel
Self, Sloth, Three
Yann Martel (2012). “Life Of Pi, Illustrated”, p.14, Canongate Books

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