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UM Graduate Student Explores the Secrets of Sloths
March 05, 2018
OXFORD, Mississippi, March 5 -- The University of Mississippi issued the following news release:

The sluggish sloth is hitting a cultural apex, with recent star roles in an insurance commercial, the animated film "Zootopia" and even as a special "referee" during this year's Puppy Bowl XIV.

Maya Kaup, a University of Mississippi graduate student in biology, welcomes the rise of the sloth, slow-moving mammals noted for spending their unhurried liv . . .

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