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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

One inhabits trees for most of their life.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

But they have to come down weekly to poop. What a chore.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Agreed. Going to a toilet is hard enough. You're telling me I have to leave my tree? No thanks.

But I do know they come down, and even sometimes swim. That was a wild episode of whatever nature documentary that was.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

Yo bro why you frontin
Chill

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Well... Jaguars don't attack the sloths either.

Just saying....

[–] [email protected] 28 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Did T-posing appear in anteaters through convergent evolution or do we share a common ancestor with the T-posing genes?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago

Giant sloths are believed to have used their claws to make caves in Brazil 10,000 years ago.

https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20231127-brazils-mysterious-tunnels-made-by-giant-sloths