Sloth Zombie
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Every Friday in May and June we’re releasing a mini movie designed to spread some handmade joy. All the films have been imagined, written, directed and edited by Folksy seller Leanne Warren, and the logo animation featured in the films has been done by another masterful Folksy seller Yas Bowley. Each film features the handmade creations of yet more Folksy sellers, showing just how much talent there is on Folksy!
‘Zombie Sloth’ is the second in the series, and tells the story of a zombie sloth who wakes from his undead slumber and, between more snoozes, redecorates his jungle pad to warn off any potential intruders so he and his zombie rock followers and pet chicken can live in peace among the monsteras… although if you look closely you might spot little zombie bite marks on the signs, and there is the incident with the snake, so maybe it’s not all peaceful in Monsteraland?
The making of…
This stop-motion film is the brainchild of animator Leanne Warren from LEAPUP with additional animation by Yas Bowley. It features zombie sloths, toucans, rocks and art by fionaT and Little Black Heart, a loyal chicken companion by Sharon Greaves from Daisylions (we’re hoping that bottle of ketchup isn’t meant for you), and Lydia Meiying‘s awesome monstera print. You can find them all on Folksy!
The film also features Andy Blarg’s genius Sloth Song as its soundtrack. Andy adapted and performed a brand new version especially for us all the way from Idaho in the US, with Leanne’s hubbie Steve Warren accompanying on ukulele! Go follow his YouTube channel: Andyblarg’s Music.
About the makers and pieces featured in ‘Zombie Sloth’
Fiona T‘s textile zombie sloth shows some serious textile and freestyle machine embroidery skills. Her original sloth (available here) was adapted for the animation and a simple wire skeleton added to help with ease of movement. This helps him appear little more ‘3D’ and interact with simple props throughout the animation.
Fiona also came up with a brand new ‘Zombie Toucan’ design especially for the film – which you can now buy in her Folksy shop here. Two toucans were created for the animation and the wings are movable so they can appear to flap and fly.
Sal Thompson (aka Little Black Heart) created the warning signs and ‘zombie rocks’ used in the animation. Each little illustrated sign is beautifully hand painted and, if you look closely, you’ll see even includes little zombie bite marks – the skill and attention to detail on such a miniature scale is exceptional.
The backdrop was created using foraged material from Leanne’s garden combined with cotton wool which Leanne painted to create a Spanish moss effect and a stick picked up on a walk. The key element of the background is a striking green monstera print by Lydia Meiying. She sells this gorgeous tropical cheeseplant design on notebooks and other items in her Folksy shop, like this Monstera Print A6 mini notebook.
The sloth’s pet chicken created by Folksy seller DaisyLions, using textile and wire, to help her escape the sloth’s clutches! As well as chickens, Sharon also makes textile owls, box frames featuring her needle-felted and hand embroidered creations, embroidered brooches and even space hopper bunting! Discover her work here – https://folksy.com/shops/Daisylions
At the end of the stop-motion section, you’ll see a zombie devouring our logo. This has been created by Yas Bowley, who took Little Black Heart‘s zombie illustration and turned it into an animation.
The Sloth Song
Finally while researching ideas for the soundtrack, Leanne and Steve came across ‘The Sloth Song’ by AndyBlarg. They approached Andy to ask permission to use the lyrics, and instead he offered to work with Steve to record a brand new version! The tune you can hear in our Folksy Friday film is Andy singing his own lyrics with Steve playing the ukulele, recorded on both sides of the Atlantic. It’s AMAZING!
Fun fact: AndyBlargh’s real name is Andy Black, and he says:
“I’m a 28-year-old, nearly graduated, college student at BYU Idaho, currently at home for the summer volunteering at the Sacramento Zoo as I want to be a zookeeper for Disney World. I love writing parody songs for YouTube as a hobby, but I also like playing Nintendo games, being around animals and dancing. I created ‘The Sloth Song’ because sloths were being introduced to a park I was volunteering at and I thought it would be fun to write a song about them. People love sloths so I found some free archive music and then wrote some lyrics with some funny sloth facts.”
We’re so very grateful for Andy’s contribution which makes the film and its quirky characters even more charming. Visit his YouTube channel for more parody songs about sharks, turkeys, video games and even hamsters – AndyBlargh on YouTube.
Look out for more Folksy Friday Films!
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A huge thank you to everyone involved in making this film and all the others. You can watch them all on the Folksy YouTube channel and look out for a new one every Friday in May and June on our social media channels. You can also watch the first Folksy Friday film ‘Hatching Chicks’ here – Hatching Chicks on YouTube and learn more about our Folksy Fridays and how YOU can join in with the fun here – https://blog.folksy.com/2019/04/29/folksy-friday-fun-films
Where to find the makers on Folksy
You can find Fiona T on Folksy here – https://folksy.com/shops/fionaT
See Little Black heart’s shop on Folksy here – https://folksy.com/shops/littleblackheart
Shop Lydia Meiying here – https://folksy.com/shops/lydiameiying
Visit DaisyLions here – https://folksy.com/shops/Daisylions
See Leanne’s Folksy shop LeapUp here – https://folksy.com/shops/LEAPUP
See Yas Bowley’s Folksy shop IndaBayi here – https://folksy.com/shops/IndaBayi
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Join Britannica's Publishing Partner Program and our community of experts to gain a global audience for your work!Sloth, (suborder Phyllophaga), tree-dwelling mammal noted for its slowness of movement. All five living species are limited to the lowland tropical forests of South and Central America, where they can be found high in the forest canopy sunning, resting, or feeding on leaves. Although two-toed sloths (family Megalonychidae) are capable of climbing and positioning themselves vertically, they spend almost all of their time hanging horizontally, using their large hooklike extremities to move along branches and vines. Three-toed sloths (family Bradypodidae) move in the same way but often sit in the forks of trees rather than hanging from branches.
What kind of animal is a sloth?
Sloths are mammals. They are part of the order Pilosa, which is also home to anteaters. Together with armadillos, sloths and anteaters form the magnorder Xenarthra.
How many types of sloths are there?
A total of five species of sloths exist: the pygmy three-toed sloth, the maned sloth, the pale-throated three-toed sloth, the brown-throated three-toed sloth, and Linnaeus's two-toed sloth. All sloths are either two-toed or three-toed.
Where do sloths live?
Sloths live in the lowland tropical areas of South and Central America. They spend most of their life in the forest canopy. Two-toed sloths tend to hang horizontally from branches, while three-toed sloths often sit in the forks of trees.
What do sloths eat?
Sloths are omnivores. Because they spend most of their time in trees, they like to munch on leaves, twigs, flowers, and other foliage, though some species may eat insects and other small animals.
Why are sloths so slow?
Sloths are slow because of their diet and metabolic rate. They eat a low-calorie diet consisting exclusively of plants, and they metabolize at a rate that is only 40–45 percent of what is expected for mammals of their weight. Sloths must move slowly to conserve energy.
Sloths have long legs, stumpy tails, and rounded heads with inconspicuous ears. Although they possess colour vision, sloths’ eyesight and hearing are not very acute; orientation is mainly by touch. The limbs are adapted for suspending the body rather than supporting it. As a result, sloths are completely helpless on the ground unless there is something to grasp. Even then, they are able only to drag themselves along with their claws. They are surprisingly good swimmers. Generally nocturnal, sloths are solitary and are aggressive toward others of the same sex.
Sloths have large multichambered stomachs and an ability to tolerate strong chemicals from the foliage they eat. The leafy food is digested slowly; a fermenting meal may take up to a week to process. The stomach is constantly filled, its contents making up about 30 percent of the sloth’s weight. Sloths descend to the ground at approximately six-day intervals to urinate and defecate (see Sidebar: A moving habitat). Physiologically, sloths are heterothermic—that is, they have imperfect control over their body temperature. Normally ranging between 25 and 35 °C (77 and 95 °F), body temperature may drop to as low as 20 °C (68 °F). At this temperature the animals become torpid. Although heterothermicity makes sloths very sensitive to temperature change, they have thick skin and are able to withstand severe injuries.
All sloths were formerly classified in the same family (Bradypodidae), but two-toed sloths have been found to be so different from three-toed sloths that they are now classified in a separate family (Megalonychidae).
Three-toed sloths
The three-toed sloth (family Bradypodidae) is also called the ai in Latin America because of the high-pitched cry it produces when agitated. All four species belong to the same genus, Bradypus, and the coloration of their short facial hair bestows them with a perpetually smiling expression. The brown-throated three-toed sloth (B. variegatus) occurs in Central and South America from Honduras to northern Argentina; the pale-throated three-toed sloth (B. tridactylus) is found in northern South America; the maned sloth (B. torquatus) is restricted to the small Atlantic forest of southeastern Brazil; and the pygmy three-toed sloth (B. pygmaeus) inhabits the Isla Escudo de Veraguas, a small Caribbean island off the northwestern coast of Panama.
Although most mammals have seven neck vertebrae, three-toed sloths have eight or nine, which permits them to turn their heads through a 270° arc. The teeth are simple pegs, and the upper front pair are smaller than the others; incisor and true canine teeth are lacking. Adults weigh only about 4 kg (8.8 pounds), and the young weigh less than 1 kg (2.2 pounds), possibly as little as 150–250 grams (about 5–9 ounces) at birth. (The birth weight of B. torquatus, for example, is only 300 grams [about 11 ounces].) The head and body length of three-toed sloths averages 58 cm (23 inches), and the tail is short, round, and movable. The forelimbs are 50 percent longer than the hind limbs; all four feet have three long, curved sharp claws. Sloths’ coloration makes them difficult to spot, even though they are very common in some areas. The outer layer of shaggy long hair is pale brown to gray and covers a short, dense coat of black-and-white underfur. The outer hairs have many cracks, perhaps caused by the algae living there. The algae give the animals a greenish tinge, especially during the rainy season. Sexes look alike in the maned sloth, but in the other species males have a large patch (speculum) in the middle of the back that lacks overhair, thus revealing the black dorsal stripe and bordering white underfur, which is sometimes stained yellow to orange. The maned sloth gets its name from the long black hair on the back of its head and neck.
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Three-toed sloths, although mainly nocturnal, may be active day or night but spend only about 10 percent of their time moving at all. They sleep either perched in the fork of a tree or hanging from a branch, with all four feet bunched together and the head tucked in on the chest. In this posture the sloth resembles a clump of dead leaves, so inconspicuous that it was once thought these animals ate only the leaves of cecropia trees because in other trees it went undetected. Research has since shown that they eat the foliage of a wide variety of other trees and vines. Locating food by touch and smell, the sloth feeds by hooking a branch with its claws and pulling it to its mouth. Sloths’ slow movements and mainly nocturnal habits generally do not attract the attention of predators such as jaguars and harpy eagles. Normally, three-toed sloths are silent and docile, but if disturbed they can strike out furiously with the sharp foreclaws.
Reproduction is seasonal in the brown- and pale-throated species; the maned sloth may breed throughout the year. Reproduction in pygmy three-toed sloths, however, has not yet been observed. A single young is born after less than six months’ gestation. Newborn sloths cling to the mother’s abdomen and remain with the mother until at least five months of age. Three-toed sloths are so difficult to maintain in captivity that little is known about their breeding behaviour and other aspects of their life history.
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