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[–] [email protected] 91 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 39 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Through the mountains 🎡

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago (1 children)

... Looks like the recent images from inside my sinus'.

Less boogies though.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I may not be remembering correctly, but didn't Sloth dig the tunnel in Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood?

Edit: had to look it up. He did. Probably a coincidence

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago

So long and thanks for the avacados!

[–] [email protected] 37 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

Big enough to be comfortably used by humans

Pffffbtbtbt, housing crisis schmousing crisis. There's your answer, chaps.

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 4 months ago (3 children)

If they still existed they would probably have moved into existing human-mined tunnels. Whether they'd wait until we abandoned them or chase us out, or help us build them, would depend on our relationship with them

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

At the "Grand canyon caverns" in northern Arizona, there are claw marks from a giant sloth who fell into the caves from a hole at ground level and clawed desperately to the walls trying to get out. They tell that story on the tour cri

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (7 children)

Can you imagine being stuck in the dawn of human agriculture, and you seek shelter in a nice cave that you found.... And then a Giant Sloth just lumbers in after a bit.

I mean, I imagine any Homo species of the time would know not to go inside one of these, but still.

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[–] [email protected] 185 points 4 months ago (9 children)

Basically a badgermole from Avatar, the last airbender

[–] [email protected] 28 points 4 months ago

Exactly my thought lol

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

Sloths are well known for their industrious nature.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago (5 children)

These giant slots dug these giants tunnels to hide from whom?

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I heard if you turn out the lights and kiss your crush, you can find a way out of the tunnel.

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[–] [email protected] 110 points 4 months ago (1 children)

🎡 Two lovers forbidden from one another 🎡

[–] [email protected] 66 points 4 months ago (1 children)

🎡 A war divides their people 🎡

[–] [email protected] 53 points 4 months ago (2 children)

🎡 And a mountain divides them apart, build a path to be together 🎡

[–] [email protected] 30 points 4 months ago

SECRET TUNNEL!!!!!

[–] [email protected] 40 points 4 months ago
...Yeah, and I forget the next couple of lines, but then it goes...

Secret tunnel!

Secret tunnel!

Through the mountain! 

Secret, secret, secret, secret tunnel
[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

6' tall? IG of that sloth? uwu

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago (4 children)

And what happened to the giant sloths?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

We domesticated them and made purse sloths.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Miniaturisation and the march of progress

How do you think we got tardigrades

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago

We ate them πŸ˜”

[–] [email protected] 35 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Earth warms up from ice age. Big sloth too fuzzy. Loses fuzz and tries to climb tree. Big sloth too big. Small big sloth gets smaller, climbs tree.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

But where does Scrat figure in this?

[–] [email protected] 53 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

Lol I know this is a joke but they died out, tree sloths existed back then too and are a totally separate group of animals. They didn’t evolve from the animals that dug this tunnel. They do share a common ancestor millions of years ago but this is like saying saber tooth cats evolved into house cats.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago

but this is like saying saber tooth cats evolved into house cats.

I'm pretty sure my house cat believes this is true, evidence to the contrary be damned.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 4 months ago

So my take from this is, the higher above ground level a sloth is, the lazier it gets.

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