The three-toed sloth is the slowest mammal in the world. The sloth's popular image as a lazy creature that sleeps for most of the day has been called into question. Rather than snoozing for more than 16 hours a day, as observed in captivity, sloths in the wild doze for less than 10 hours, research suggests.
Lassie is a fictional female collie dog character created by Eric Knight in a short story expanded to novel length called Lassie Come-Home. However, Knight may have been influenced by another female collie named Lassie, featured in the 1859 story The Half-brothers written by British writer Elizabeth Gaskell.The Half-brothers is a short, sentimental story in which a female border collie named Lassie, loved only by her young master, saves the day.alf collie, Lassie was owned by the landlord of the Pilot Boat, a pub in the port of Lyme Regis. On New Yearâs Day in 1915 the Royal Navy battleship  HMS Formidable  was torpedoed by a German submarine off Start Point in South Devon, with the loss of more than 500 men.
Adorable animal families that will make you aww. A Yorkie-Poo is a mixed breed dog that results from mating a Yorkshire terrier with a poodle. Quite often, the parents are purebred and the puppies are a 50/50 mix, but not always.