r/MadeMeSmile • u/No_Mortgage6046 • 17h ago
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u/Mauhea 17h ago
Don't sloths climb down to the bottom of trees to poop? Imagine your kid finally sits on the potty and some rando yeets them in the air and on your shoulders mid grunt.
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u/Rei-Dan 16h ago
So that last shot wasnt her shaking his hand, it was her giving him the finger…
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u/FragrantExcitement 15h ago
But she has no fingers Dan.
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u/TheWaningWizard 15h ago
Lieutenant Dan, she's got no fingers
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u/RelationTop2826 14h ago
How is she going to hold an ice cream when she has no fingers Lieutenant Dan?
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u/Great_Ad7215 16h ago
Lol came here for this comment. He meant well, but the poor baby was probably trying to poop.
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u/TapeDeckSlick 16h ago edited 16h ago
They do and the kids have a lil nibble on it too
Downvote me all you want, it's an actual fact.
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u/AllTheSilentThoughts 10h ago
Yep, and this is pretty much universal in the mammalian animal kingdom, especially with herbivores. Some carnivores do too though more often it's the mom eating all the baby poop for a while. :')
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u/somesortoflegend 14h ago
They climb down once a week though and mom was going up it looked like. Don't want to miss that bus.
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u/cellblock2187 13h ago
I knew about the ground pooping, so the whole time I was wondering if that kid will now be weaker weaker for life, kind of like a butterfly- if you help it out of the cocoon, if it doesn't get a chance to use those muscles as intended, and it'll die.
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u/Amathyst7564 8h ago
Makes sense, how else would the poo get down? You don't want a bunch of sloth hover poop hanging around your tree.
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u/amdaly10 17h ago
It was prob pooping. The go down to the ground to poop.
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u/Annual_Phrase841 6h ago
Why wouldn’t they just poop from the tree ? 😭 doesn’t that put them in danger ?
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u/wite_noiz 6h ago
Look, no one claimed they were clever. They have standards, though, and not flinging their waste from the treetops like those disgusting monkeys is one of them.
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u/runningwithsharpie 4h ago
Apparently, they poop in the ground because they need to help the sloth moths that can help them grow their algae on their furs.
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u/Minimum_Society841 17h ago
Good job, now wash your hands..
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u/tryagainnoob 17h ago
This. Sloths are the natures equivalent of radioactive waste.
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u/A3HeadedMunkey 17h ago
"As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic sloth"
- Franz Kafka, if he knew about sloths
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u/GodButCursed 17h ago
Why?
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u/TeethForCeral 14h ago
sloths backs actually host an entire ecosystem of algae and moths! these moths spend their entire life cycle with the sloths, their young living in their backs. Sloths will also sometimes eat the algae growing on them! it’s really interesting!
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u/slavelabor52 16h ago
Well for one thing sloths are known to eat feces and sometimes need fished out of outhouses. Id wash my hands.
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u/thedifferenceisnt 16h ago
Cats and dogs are known for the same
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u/BatatinhaGameplays28 15h ago
Yeah, you’re supposed to wash your hands after interacting with them too
But also sloths can carry parisites such as lices and ticks
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u/dimmak 12h ago
Louse is to lice what mouse is to mice.
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u/BatatinhaGameplays28 10h ago
Thanks for the information! English isn’t my first language and I really never heard that
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u/Buttonskill 8h ago
Well, it is my first language, and until today, I thought the singular was a 1950s unemployed husband in Chicago.
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u/alexnedea 1h ago
Bro if I wash my hands every time i interract with my cat id be spending industrial quantities of water and soap.
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u/BatatinhaGameplays28 34m ago
That's fair lol, I'd recommend just washing them if you're gonna grab food or interact with someone else then
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u/Azreal_Mistwalker 13h ago
There are species of moths and algae that grow exclusively on sloth fur.
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u/OnceMoreAndAgain 14h ago edited 13h ago
Most mammals clean their hair/fur to avoid investation, but sloths only groom their fur by stroking their claws through it to untangle the fur and remove debris and large insects. No moisture involved. They don't groom each other like monkeys do nor do they bathe. The only water touching their fur is rain water, basically.
So their fur ends up being home for algae and small bugs. If you look up pictures of sloths that aren't in captivity, then their fur will often have large patches of green color to them which is the algae and fungi. It gives them a natural camouflage since the particular algae and fungi growing on the trees they climb also end up growing in their fur so they get perfect color matching to their environment. That's why different sloths have different colors of green on their fur.
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u/Puzzleheaded-Block73 16h ago
Hmmmm, honest question: if I tell you Asmongold = Sloth would that be enough of an explanation?
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u/icansmellcolors 11h ago
Chlamydia and they have many parasites that live in their fur, but they're mostly harmless, but no thank you.
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u/Prior-Dependent- 17h ago
Sometimes the smallest gestures mean the most to someone.
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u/BeeSpibbleBlop 16h ago
Yeah, like giving that baby sloth to that hungry adult sloth for a meal. And then they were like, cool, fist bump.
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u/ohdatpoodle 16h ago
Sloths are kind of assholes, and their vision is completely upside down - she was swatting at him to back off but is just so painfully slow and not well coordinated when positioned upright so it comes across as an awkward handshake. Do you see how quickly she hauled slothass to scooch down the tree to her baby??? She was not thanking this man.
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u/VocalJay 15h ago
No matter how many times you tell people not to humanize wild animals and especially not to fcking touch them, they will still do it, cause some damage to the enviroment or just do something that isn't even remotely necessary, and continue to feel good about it because of the "good deed" they did
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u/ConnectRutabaga3925 13h ago
what if we take a video and play soft guitar music while showing the sloth threatening to gouge the guy’s face
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u/Both_Consequence_956 15h ago
we have an obese cat epidemic. i have lost faith in human treatment or theory of mind of animals long ago lol
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u/glyph_productions 15h ago
LMFAO you're right but also I just got a mental image of a bunch of Garfield sized cats on treadmills in oversized t-shirts and I would like this to be the next season of the biggest loser, please and thank you
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u/Carpeted_Bathroom2 12h ago
Once got in an argument regarding a dog biting someone and they blamed the dog. I said the dog didn't do anything wrong, its just a dog and gave warning signs that were ignored before biting and dogs are ultimately the owner's responsibility. I was told I was victim blaming lol. Just doubled down on the anthropomorphizing.
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u/Dull_Quit3027 4h ago
you are right in that the whole an animal sitting around after being rescued, is most often just because they are completely exhausted, but not touching is very situational, I saw a video of some dude saving a racoon today, and it was touching him, and I doubt it is causing damage to the environment in any way.
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u/twelfth_knight 13h ago
They're slow, but I've heard they'll fuck you up with those claws if you give them the chance. As in like, their swiping motion is way faster than anything else they do. That's what adults always told my dad when he was growing up in Manaus anyway. But idk, it could be they just say that so kids aren't dicks to animals 🤷
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u/ohdatpoodle 8h ago
I interned at a zoo with a two-toed sloth who was hand-raised in captivity from birth. He was the nicest sloth anyone at the zoo had ever met...and he still took a huge bite at the education director's arm. They're slow until they suddenly are not.
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u/khaisquared 8h ago
Reminds of that reddit vid of that guy helping a sloth across the street and its limbs reach backwards and stafts clawing and I think tried to bite him
edit: found video: https://www.reddit.com/r/Unexpected/comments/1smxqy5/helping_a_sloth_cross_the_road/
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u/Vitruvian_Link 15h ago
Yup, Everytime one of these videos comes up, we are trying to tell folks "showing your claws is not a sign of gratitude."
This is the first time I've seen a comment acknowledging this up voted! Yay!
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u/azure-heavens 9h ago
I thought maybe she was blind as heck and thought his little hand was a sloth baby. Like uh... when you look for your phone, but you're already holding it up to your ear.
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u/Emperor-Nerd 15h ago
Baby sloth was probably trying to poop
I'm 99% sure both mama and baby tried to claw him
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u/xand3s 17h ago
Oblivious, ignorant people, this is not thanking him, this sloth is stressed and is in defensive posture trying to appear larger.
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u/ohdatpoodle 16h ago
She was probably trying to claw/swat at him telling him to back away and he interpreted as a handshake. Poor girl.
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u/The_Paleking 16h ago
Have you ever been around sloths?
She hasn't even brandished her pistol yet. That is the first thing any sloth would do when threatened. Clearly not in self-defense mode.
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u/JustDuckiest 17h ago
Thank you lol, I was looking for this comment. Sloths are not human and do not have the same body language as us
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u/FluffyBootie 15h ago
Social media 101 - everyone will believe a headline/caption if it seems plausible
People are getting dumber despite the overwhelming ability to access knowledge
Darker times are ahead if we don't stop our quest for anti-intellectualism
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u/xoxodaddysgirlxoxo 13h ago
You're not wrong. FFS, the sloth baby isn't even in any danger - human just took the opportunity to touch wildlife
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u/ReadersAreRedditors 17h ago edited 16h ago
Did the sloth even need rescuing? Mom was pretty close. She would of got there......eventually.
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u/Blessed_tenrecs 13h ago
When baby sloths fall there is about a 50/50 chance of the mother abandoning them because she doesn't have the energy to go get them. Idk if this baby was old enough to climb back up, but if not, 50/50 chance he saved its life.
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u/Dear-Magazine-532 16h ago
Did the cub (i don't know how kid sloths are called) need rescuing? No. Did he save mom and child from unnecessary stress? yes he did
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u/romansparta99 15h ago
From most other comments it sounds like he put the mother and child in a lot of unnecessary stress
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u/TheCleverMoose 16h ago
This is not a thank you; it is an attempt to intimidate you.
Since the internet has become more accessible, people have become less intelligent. This is a concept taught in elementary school textbooks that you would have had access to.
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u/concrete_isnt_cement 15h ago
I don’t think my elementary school textbooks had much sloth lore in them, although to be fair, I did grow up in a part of the world not known for its abundance of sloths
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u/OsageDaito 16h ago
This a bad idea. The scratch or bite of a sloth is deadly without medical attention.
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u/donutgiraffe 15h ago
Yeah they can move really fast when they have to, they grab on hard, and they bite. Not a good idea to go anywhere near one.
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u/successadult 15h ago
My friends came back from Costa Rica and said that they were warned to stay away from the sloths because even being near one was dangerous.
Someone at their hotel told them that her husband walked by one and had a flea jump on him and bite him and he ended up needing daily injections for over a month to prevent all the diseases that insects can carry there.
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u/SuckmydickJoannF 14h ago
I met a guy in Costa Rica who's hand looked like someone threw acid on it. When he was a kid he was playing with a sloth and it nipped him. It did NOT break the skin. Theyre cute bacteria monsters. There's even a species of mosquito that only lives on sloths.
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u/EmotionalAnt4335 10h ago
People really underestimate how dangerous wild animals can be even when they look calm.
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u/KingOfThe_Jelly_Fish 17h ago
I've also seen a video of someone trying to get one of these across a road and getting mauled.
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u/Virus-Scary 16h ago
That's a good clip of what it looks like when a momma sloth tries to rip your face off to protect her young
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u/TheGrandCucumber 7h ago
Public service announcement: Sloth claws are incredibly sharp be careful around them
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u/Sariduri 11h ago
I loved these animals, I believed they were the cutest! then visited Costa Rica and saw the amount of bugs, parasites and literal shit on top of them and... Still love them, would never ever everrrrrrr touch one.
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u/african_or_european 10h ago
No one will ever convince me sloths aren't just poorly made animatronics.
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u/ChocolateCoveredGold 15h ago
I'm convince this is what the giant ground sloth was like during the pleistocene epoch. Nobody contradict me with "facts." I want to imagine a giant ground sloth who gives amazing hugs and chases off any giant, flying hell beasts that might threaten my adventures through time and space.
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u/FlyNo1502 13h ago
Here we go again. In typical Reddit fashion: don't touch wild animal unless you want a bleeding anus.
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u/Lopsided_Soup_3533 15h ago
BTW a sloth reaching out is not them thanking anyone its a stress , defensive move by the sloth. Sorry to be Debbie downer but its true
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u/EffectiveDandy 11h ago
Still remember that one guy that tried to “save” one crossing a road and it just pissed it off so it attacked him lol. Their hooked claws are formidable and they are actually insanely strong!
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u/raddishesits 15h ago
The cute blessing of "GET AWAY GO AWAY HE DIDN'T NEED HELP NOW HE HAS TO CLIMB DOWN AGAIN JERK"
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u/PastShine7597 16h ago
The guitar cover of the psychotic Hillsong United song does not fit the vibes.
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u/evaderofallbans 13h ago
That's dangerous! Sloths have killed more than a dozen people since time began, probably.
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u/Nyxtician 41m ago
She waa very calm, I've seen video on when they are threatened they latch on and could maul you, they can be really fast when threatened
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u/EveningArmadillo5429 14h ago
It boggles my mind that some people treat animals as if they were less than us, when stuff like this is so easy to find.
We say it about Homo sapiens, but it would do us good to remember that, on this planet, we are ALL more alike than different
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u/SuckmydickJoannF 14h ago
There's a shit ton of information on how these animals work, and the Internet exists. If you use your little internet browser, you can even look up these facts.
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u/Happy-House-9453 14h ago
Most animals are insanely protective over their young. To the point where the instinct to protect would override damn near any other form of higher level cognitive action. So no; this sloth is not saying thank you.
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u/JonesinforJonesey 15h ago
Even all covered in bugs that Mum is as adorable as her baby. Sloths have the sweetest faces.
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u/JustaLego 15h ago
I didn't see a thankyou I just saw a edit to him gently yanking against the claw of mom.
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u/Asleep_Assignment755 15h ago
Every time I see a video of these guys I wonder how they have survived as a species. Must not taste very good 😂
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