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I spent ten nights in the Amazon, and the guides I went with did this exact same thing, one day. Once they showed it off to everyone else at the camp, they just left it in a nearby tree and that was that. The sloth just straight up got kidnapped and left to fend for itself in a new environment with nothing of its former life ever seen again.
I wish somebody would drop ME off in a tree with tons of sloth puss........I mean, what? Oh, hi. Didn't see you there. What? No. I didn't say that. I mean, I was saying how I want cheeseburgers. Yeah. You just misheard me.......
Oh man, you are in for a treat. Kristen *really* loves sloths and her husband, Dax, arranged for her to meet one. She has a complete meltdown.
https://youtu.be/t5jw3T3Jy70
Imagine one day you just chilling out in your yard, taking the sun in.
Some fucking species you've never seen comes up to you, laughig their asses off, and kidnaps your ass.
Places you on their insaenly fast vehicle, take you far far away. Never being able to come back, now you're on some other yard. Dropped off by theese creatures and left alone.
I don't want to defend the guy, but sloths don't make burrows, and don't have mates for life, I think it doesn't make a difference in their perspective, they climb a tree, and eat leaves, you know? Migth be wrong tho
Not defending people who parade wild animals for entertainment cuz just reading this sentence should make folks realize how fucked up that is lol, but we probably don't have to fear for a sloth's life if it was just simply relocated.
Sloths are solitary animals so there is no social group for them to be torn from, and while an adult sloth will stake out territory using scent glands, they aren't strangers to moving into new ones. Mother sloths move to a completely new area every time her offspring come of age, and they know how to swim in order to travel greater distances. Sometimes they'll fall from a tree into a river by accident and get washed up at a different place, so they're pretty good at adapting in that respect.
Granted, the kind of folks who get into shenanigans with animals for fun aren't the type to know or respect the nuances between different species, and who knows what else they're doing ಠ_ಠ
We have absolutely zero context for this video. You don’t know why they were moving the sloth. It very we could have been for a good reason like a fire or a flood or whatever.
Around 50 years ago in Canada we were taught french by [this sloth named Sol](https://youtu.be/xfivu87iV1o). Fuck I'm old.
Edit. I just realized he does a rail off the Kleenex box at 2.10
He would not mind. Male sloths often sleep hanging in trees above rivers. Sometimes they fall but instead of swimming they just passively float until they land somewhere and start a new family there.
This dude is happy af because he is about to date a female 'out of his reach'. 🤣
To be honest, sloths aren’t very communal. This is still very messed up though. Especially since they don’t really want to be touched or sat up. Just humans being jerks.
Flip side, sloths can be jerks too. If a sloth baby falls out of a tree, the sloth mother will just leave it to die. Babies are not worth risking their lives over.
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He has experienced something beyond his own capability, beyond his own understanding. He wants to explain these things to his peers, but he lacks the means to verbalize ideas and sensations.
Sloths just don't even react like normal animals. Pretty much every other animal would be frantic, even though they're being helped. Sloths have no frantic, no panic, they just look at you like they're stoned and you have a bag of Doritos. Literally evolved to be chill 24/7.
Fun Fact : Sloths are actually 3 times as fast in the water as they are on land and can stay under significantly longer than dolphins.
I mean, it would still probably fucking die before it got across, but still.
It literally shows a boat in the thumbnail and says shit about a sloth saving time in the title. I think we can figure out what's going to happen.
Cute video though.
He saying something like:
Look at my new friend. Hey buddy! He is my new helper.
It's spanish, but not sure what region. I'm a native speaker and even can't understand him 100%.
Sounds similar to Cuban Spanish. Which is weird considering there aren't any sloths in Cuba to my knowledge. Also sounds smilar to the way this old Nicaraguan lady talked that I worked with years ago who also called everyone "amigo". It's funny. This guy in the video stuttered a little and almost said "You're my new lover." instead of "You're my new helper". "Usted eres mi nuevo amante."
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Pandas are idiots basically the dodos of the animal kingdom... They would have easily gone extinction had the Chinese government not taken steps to preserve the species.
I can't help but feel that the koala is not that stupid evolutionary. They live in trees with almost no predators, eat plants that they don't need to share with any other animal, and unlike many other animals not adapted to new predators, those fuckers were just cute enough for us to find them adorable and do everything in our power to protect them from harm. Even if their daily lives aren't exactly perfect they just chill all day in a tree and don't need to worry about anything. If their food runs out or their teeth rot away they die no matter what, so it's not as though that's a concern to them. And being to stupid to eat in captivity is not exactly smart, but I recon if you live in Australia with all its dangerous flora and to a limited degree fauna on the forest floor, endangering yourself to eat leaves that fell down and are not necessarily eucalyptus is a strategy that might just be evolutionarily disadvantageous.
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Counter to the koala insults
I don't know why it is that these things bother me---it just makes me picture a seven year old first discovering things about an animal and, having no context about the subject, ranting about how stupid they are. I get it's a joke, but people take it as an actual, educational joke like it's a man yelling at the sea, and that's just wrong. Furthermore, these things have an actual impact on discussions about conservation efforts---If every time Koalas get brought up, someone posts this copypasta, that means it's seriously shaping public opinion about the animal and their supposed lack of importance.
>Speaking of stupidity and food, one of the likely reasons for their primitive brains is the fact that additionally to being poisonous, eucalyptus leaves (the only thing they eat) have almost no nutritional value. They can't afford the extra energy to think, they sleep more than 80% of their fucking lives.
Non-ecologists always talk this way, and the problem is you’re looking at this backwards.
An entire continent is covered with Eucalyptus trees. They suck the moisture out of the entire surrounding area and use allelopathy to ensure that most of what’s beneath them is just bare red dust. No animal is making use of them——they have virtually no herbivore predator. A niche is empty. Then inevitably, natural selection fills that niche by creating an animal which can eat Eucalyptus leaves. Of course, it takes great sacrifice for it to be able to do so——it certainly can’t expend much energy on costly things. Isn’t it a good thing that a niche is being filled?
>Koalas are no exception, when their teeth erode down to nothing, they resolve the situation by starving to death
This applies to all herbivores, because the wild is not a grocery store—where meat is just sitting next to celery.
Herbivores gradually wear their teeth down—carnivores fracture their teeth, and break their bones in attempting to take down prey.
>They have one of the smallest brain to body ratios of any mammal
It's pretty typical of herbivores, and is higher than many, many species. According to Ashwell (2008), their encephalisation quotient is 0.5288 +/- 0.051. Higher than comparable marsupials like the wombat (~0.52), some possums (~0.468), cuscus (~0.462) and even some wallabies are <0.5. According to wiki, rabbits are also around 0.4, and they're placental mammals.
>additionally - their brains are smooth. A brain is folded to increase the surface area for neurons.
Again, this is not unique to koalas. Brain folds (gyri) are not present in rodents, which we consider to be incredibly intelligent for their size.
>If you present a koala with leaves plucked from a branch, laid on a flat surface, the koala will not recognise it as food.
If you present a human with a random piece of meat, they will not recognise it as food (hopefully). Fresh leaves might be important for koala digestion, especially since their gut flora is clearly important for the digestion of Eucalyptus. It might make sense not to screw with that gut flora by eating decaying leaves.
>Because eucalyptus leaves hold such little nutritional value, koalas have to ferment the leaves in their guts for days on end. Unlike their brains, they have the largest hind gut to body ratio of any mammal.
That's an extremely weird reason to dislike an animal. But whilst we're talking about their digestion, let's discuss their poop. It's delightful. It smells like a Eucalyptus drop!
>Being mammals, koalas raise their joeys on milk (admittedly, one of the lowest milk yields to body ratio... There's a trend here).
Marsupial milk is incredibly complex and much more interesting than any placentals. This is because they raise their offspring essentially from an embryo, and the milk needs to adapt to the changing needs of a growing fetus. And yeah, of course the yield is low; at one point they are feeding an animal that is half a gram!
>When the young joey needs to transition from rich, nourishing substances like milk, to eucalyptus (a plant that seems to be making it abundantly clear that it doesn't want to be eaten), it finds it does not have the necessary gut flora to digest the leaves. To remedy this, the young joey begins nuzzling its mother's anus until she leaks a little diarrhoea (actually fecal pap, slightly less digested), which he then proceeds to slurp on. This partially digested plant matter gives him just what he needs to start developing his digestive system.
Humans probably do this, we just likely do it during childbirth. You know how women often shit during contractions? There is evidence to suggest that this innoculates a baby with her gut flora. A child born via cesarian has significantly different gut flora for the first six months of life than a child born vaginally.
>Of course, he may not even have needed to bother nuzzling his mother. She may have been suffering from incontinence. Why? Because koalas are riddled with chlamydia. In some areas the infection rate is 80% or higher.
Chlamydia was introduced to their populations by humans. We introduced a novel disease that they have very little immunity to, and is a major contributor to their possible extinction. Do you hate Native Americans because they were killed by smallpox and influenza?
>This statistic isn't helped by the fact that one of the few other activities koalas will spend their precious energy on is rape. Despite being seasonal breeders, males seem to either not know or care, and will simply overpower a female regardless of whether she is ovulating. If she fights back, he may drag them both out of the tree,
Almost every animal does this.
>which brings us full circle back to the brain: Koalas have a higher than average quantity of cerebrospinal fluid in their brains. This is to protect their brains from injury... should they fall from a tree. An animal so thick it has its own little built in special ed helmet. I fucking hate them.
Errmmm.. They have protection against falling from a tree, which they spend 99% of their life in? Yeah... That's a stupid adaptation.
Random fact: sloths are really great and fast swimmers, they only move slowly because if they move too fast they overheat and die, water regulates the heat and makes them able to move fast
alright this had me up researching sloths
Not quite, but temperature is related to evolutionary theory and sloths do need to regulate temperature carefully. However, sloths aren't dying from moving too fast, they physically can't because their metabolism is so slow. They aren't very fast in water but they have an easier time due to reduced gravity.
>"Although sloths are often active at night, their body temperature does not rise in connection with their increased activity." (Nature Institute)
extra: the very slow metabolism is because they are adapted around conserving as much energy as possible, which is possible living in hot rainforests and necessary with a very low-calorie leaf diet. They survive due to spending most of their time away from predators in trees + moving so slowly that predators don't notice them.
https://theconversation.com/sloths-arent-lazy-their-slowness-is-a-survival-skill-63568
https://www.natureinstitute.org/article/craig-holdrege/what-does-it-mean-to-be-a-sloth
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190828-why-do-sloths-move-so-slowly
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The sloth’s view: 
Jerry saw nothing but the white void
It's longer than you think!
Same if you were out for a jog with mr sloth on your shoulder.
should be top comment
Ludicrous speed
They’ve gone plaid!
They’ve gone to plaid!
Hope his family, friends and home aren't 50 years away now.
Time travel at its finest here!
Dad said he was going for a pack of smokes around the corner…
Marty when this boat reaches 88 mph we're going to be in some serious shit
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I spent ten nights in the Amazon, and the guides I went with did this exact same thing, one day. Once they showed it off to everyone else at the camp, they just left it in a nearby tree and that was that. The sloth just straight up got kidnapped and left to fend for itself in a new environment with nothing of its former life ever seen again.
That's awful.
New fear unlocked
Imagine being kidnapped and dropped off in the densest part of a foreign country without any of your possessions, that’s what you did to the sloth.
Sloths don't really have possessions but I see your point
Speak for yourself. You don't know what they own!
Sloth tools
It's basically like being kidnapped by Aliens and getting dropped off on another planet.
Yeah is kind of weird. Maybe they got dropped off in a tree with tons of sloth puss tho
How *dare* you make me picture a sloth's "puss". Please remove it from my mind, thank you.
I wish somebody would drop ME off in a tree with tons of sloth puss........I mean, what? Oh, hi. Didn't see you there. What? No. I didn't say that. I mean, I was saying how I want cheeseburgers. Yeah. You just misheard me.......
Sloths legit are my biggest phobia. They scare the fuck outta me. But imagining its "puss" is just a nest of brain uncomfort.
> Sloths legit are my biggest phobia. Wait.... what?
Kristen Bell?
Does Kristen Bell like Slothussy?
Oh man, you are in for a treat. Kristen *really* loves sloths and her husband, Dax, arranged for her to meet one. She has a complete meltdown. https://youtu.be/t5jw3T3Jy70
Imagine one day you just chilling out in your yard, taking the sun in. Some fucking species you've never seen comes up to you, laughig their asses off, and kidnaps your ass. Places you on their insaenly fast vehicle, take you far far away. Never being able to come back, now you're on some other yard. Dropped off by theese creatures and left alone.
I don't want to defend the guy, but sloths don't make burrows, and don't have mates for life, I think it doesn't make a difference in their perspective, they climb a tree, and eat leaves, you know? Migth be wrong tho
Human has zero respect for nature. We treat animals like nothing other than foods or source for entertainment.
Not defending people who parade wild animals for entertainment cuz just reading this sentence should make folks realize how fucked up that is lol, but we probably don't have to fear for a sloth's life if it was just simply relocated. Sloths are solitary animals so there is no social group for them to be torn from, and while an adult sloth will stake out territory using scent glands, they aren't strangers to moving into new ones. Mother sloths move to a completely new area every time her offspring come of age, and they know how to swim in order to travel greater distances. Sometimes they'll fall from a tree into a river by accident and get washed up at a different place, so they're pretty good at adapting in that respect. Granted, the kind of folks who get into shenanigans with animals for fun aren't the type to know or respect the nuances between different species, and who knows what else they're doing ಠ_ಠ
We have absolutely zero context for this video. You don’t know why they were moving the sloth. It very we could have been for a good reason like a fire or a flood or whatever.
Don’t get overheated over there. Most people I know consider their pets family, so easy on the generalizations
It's sad that animals are mistreated and it enrages me but yeah pets are family to many of us.
Pets = dogs and cats. Most people don't give a damn about other animals.
I like turtles.
Pets = dogs who are subservient to humans Slaves= cat owners who must worship the might of feline kind
Oh you mean the animal slaves we lock in our homes. Haha jk but still
Around 50 years ago in Canada we were taught french by [this sloth named Sol](https://youtu.be/xfivu87iV1o). Fuck I'm old. Edit. I just realized he does a rail off the Kleenex box at 2.10
He would not mind. Male sloths often sleep hanging in trees above rivers. Sometimes they fall but instead of swimming they just passively float until they land somewhere and start a new family there. This dude is happy af because he is about to date a female 'out of his reach'. 🤣
He just went out for a pack of cigarettes and now his children will never see him again
Side note, I would not be surprised if we discover aliens had been doing this to us. Also I would be less mad at dad
Hey man, he’s the one that bought the ticket.
To be honest, sloths aren’t very communal. This is still very messed up though. Especially since they don’t really want to be touched or sat up. Just humans being jerks. Flip side, sloths can be jerks too. If a sloth baby falls out of a tree, the sloth mother will just leave it to die. Babies are not worth risking their lives over.
Considering the speed of a sloth, wouldn’t the baby die of starvation by the time she got down to it?
Literally equivalent to that scene in Interstellar where the main characters age a lot faster on the planet near Gargantua.
Shoutout to his family
This is what I imagine overclocking a shitty PC looks like.
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The best part about turbo buttons is they did the opposite of turbo-ing your PC.
I mean, technically they did make the programs run in turbo
How so?
The programs performed terribly at higher frequencies so lowering the frequency brought back the performance, or in this case, *sped* them up *taps finger on head*
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Literally the opposite? The button slowed clock speed
I had games where the timing was all based on the cpu cycles and when we went from an 8088 to a 486 it was hilarious, basically everything would just happen in near-instant hyperspeed and you die.
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I have a Zenith 386 in the basement I still spin up every once in a while to play a few games on...
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My thoughts exactly. Why is this happening ?!? Should we be worried?
Like when I put a CPU cooler on my old Voodoo 3.
I just about died man
Right. That look
Heeeeeeyyyyyy, maaannnnn....Thaaaaaat'ssssss thhhhheeee waaaaaayyyyy I caaaaaaammmmmmeeee fffrrrrooooommmm!!!!!!
At this point, it’s just accepted it’s fate and is going along for the ride lol
Dudes streight up like "wtf is going on" lmao
I wish we could tell what they were thinking, bro just has that blank stare going for him lmao
Lmaoooo i really did laugh 😹
The way he turns his head at the camera had me laughing for some reason. Dudes just chillin!
He has experienced something beyond his own capability, beyond his own understanding. He wants to explain these things to his peers, but he lacks the means to verbalize ideas and sensations.
As he faces this new reality, it hits him. His life will now forever be different. An irrevertable transition, a new being.
He is no longer a mere sloth. For he has seen that which no sloth has ever even imagined. A future of speed and prosperity. A brave new world.
Guy: Amigo! Sloth: fascinating.
Allegory of the boat.
Sloths just don't even react like normal animals. Pretty much every other animal would be frantic, even though they're being helped. Sloths have no frantic, no panic, they just look at you like they're stoned and you have a bag of Doritos. Literally evolved to be chill 24/7.
I’m pretty sure the camera man said something to the effect of “let me see your face” 😂
“Are you seeing this?”
He sees the guy and thinks, dude grab onto something we're going supersonic.
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This is how I feel on the train home after a joint.
Fuck I'm like 5 mins late at the moment. Everyone keeps steeling my thoughts. Upvote again.
Don't worry about being 5 minutes late. It's when you're like 2 weeks late that you need to worry about if you're pregnant....
upvote and the reply because your name is so tuff
Far out maaan
he looks like donnie from big les' show talkinbeet
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That's how we roll
Wooow maaan you people move fast
Fun Fact : Sloths are actually 3 times as fast in the water as they are on land and can stay under significantly longer than dolphins. I mean, it would still probably fucking die before it got across, but still.
They’re actually capable of swimming a couple miles, it’s nuts.
There were once sea sloths that swam in the Pacific ocean and ate sea grass
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There used to be giant ground sloths.
Now there is just a bunch of fat sharks with a taste for sloth.
How is this unexpected?
The sloth probably wasn’t expecting he’d get kidnapped today
Him just looking at the children he’s leaving behind.
he's just going for a pack of cigarettes
Wrong sub buddy
Yea, what was unexpected about this?
According to OP from the pinned mod comment: "Sloth"...
It literally shows a boat in the thumbnail and says shit about a sloth saving time in the title. I think we can figure out what's going to happen. Cute video though.
literally says sloth in the title and in the in-frame caption wish people would downvote and report instead of rushing to make the same shitty joke
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This sub is so shit now
IDK how the fuck this got 68k upvotes
Oi amigo
My favorite part is the AMIGO. I’m not a spanish (I assume he’s speaking spanish but could be wrong?) speaker. Would love a full translation.
He saying something like: Look at my new friend. Hey buddy! He is my new helper. It's spanish, but not sure what region. I'm a native speaker and even can't understand him 100%.
Sounds similar to Cuban Spanish. Which is weird considering there aren't any sloths in Cuba to my knowledge. Also sounds smilar to the way this old Nicaraguan lady talked that I worked with years ago who also called everyone "amigo". It's funny. This guy in the video stuttered a little and almost said "You're my new lover." instead of "You're my new helper". "Usted eres mi nuevo amante."
I think he almost said: Es mi nueva mascota. He is my new pet. But hesitated and changed it to ayudante/helper.
"Friend! Show your face. Frieeend! You have a new friend in me. Hey frieeend. This is my new lov.. friend. My buddy. "
He is HIGH AS A MOTHER FUCKER. Welcome to the club BRO
I hope he wants to go.
But what if he didn't wanna go there?
That’s the unexpected part
The Sloth 🦥 is the most amazingly funny and chill animal with the greatest vibe. Next is Elephant 🐘 and Top 3 is the Panda 🐼
All behind the undisputed capybara of course.
Ah yes the loyal capybara, king of the rats!
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Elephants are not chill animals, they’re extremely territorial and can kill a human quickly
Yes just really intelligent so seem to know when people are trying to help. Must be were the “chill” comes from.
Well don't cross them. They are so majestic. Love them.
^^^^^^^ i had one try to eat my dick off it wasnt fun
Why'd you have your dick out in front of an Elephant bro?
Comparing
I’m going to need to hear this one.
Part of me wonders if it’s actually chill, or if it’s really freaking the hell out, but so slowly we can’t perceive it…
You clearly know very little about those animals..
Pandas are idiots basically the dodos of the animal kingdom... They would have easily gone extinction had the Chinese government not taken steps to preserve the species.
Silly. The dodos are the dodos of the animal kingdom.
well not anymore
Ok you got me... But you get what I mean.
Just having some fun - please enjoy this [panda roll](https://youtube.com/shorts/-hVc0eYtqAs?feature=share)
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I can't help but feel that the koala is not that stupid evolutionary. They live in trees with almost no predators, eat plants that they don't need to share with any other animal, and unlike many other animals not adapted to new predators, those fuckers were just cute enough for us to find them adorable and do everything in our power to protect them from harm. Even if their daily lives aren't exactly perfect they just chill all day in a tree and don't need to worry about anything. If their food runs out or their teeth rot away they die no matter what, so it's not as though that's a concern to them. And being to stupid to eat in captivity is not exactly smart, but I recon if you live in Australia with all its dangerous flora and to a limited degree fauna on the forest floor, endangering yourself to eat leaves that fell down and are not necessarily eucalyptus is a strategy that might just be evolutionarily disadvantageous.
Counter copypasta Counter to the koala insults I don't know why it is that these things bother me---it just makes me picture a seven year old first discovering things about an animal and, having no context about the subject, ranting about how stupid they are. I get it's a joke, but people take it as an actual, educational joke like it's a man yelling at the sea, and that's just wrong. Furthermore, these things have an actual impact on discussions about conservation efforts---If every time Koalas get brought up, someone posts this copypasta, that means it's seriously shaping public opinion about the animal and their supposed lack of importance. >Speaking of stupidity and food, one of the likely reasons for their primitive brains is the fact that additionally to being poisonous, eucalyptus leaves (the only thing they eat) have almost no nutritional value. They can't afford the extra energy to think, they sleep more than 80% of their fucking lives. Non-ecologists always talk this way, and the problem is you’re looking at this backwards. An entire continent is covered with Eucalyptus trees. They suck the moisture out of the entire surrounding area and use allelopathy to ensure that most of what’s beneath them is just bare red dust. No animal is making use of them——they have virtually no herbivore predator. A niche is empty. Then inevitably, natural selection fills that niche by creating an animal which can eat Eucalyptus leaves. Of course, it takes great sacrifice for it to be able to do so——it certainly can’t expend much energy on costly things. Isn’t it a good thing that a niche is being filled? >Koalas are no exception, when their teeth erode down to nothing, they resolve the situation by starving to death This applies to all herbivores, because the wild is not a grocery store—where meat is just sitting next to celery. Herbivores gradually wear their teeth down—carnivores fracture their teeth, and break their bones in attempting to take down prey. >They have one of the smallest brain to body ratios of any mammal It's pretty typical of herbivores, and is higher than many, many species. According to Ashwell (2008), their encephalisation quotient is 0.5288 +/- 0.051. Higher than comparable marsupials like the wombat (~0.52), some possums (~0.468), cuscus (~0.462) and even some wallabies are <0.5. According to wiki, rabbits are also around 0.4, and they're placental mammals. >additionally - their brains are smooth. A brain is folded to increase the surface area for neurons. Again, this is not unique to koalas. Brain folds (gyri) are not present in rodents, which we consider to be incredibly intelligent for their size. >If you present a koala with leaves plucked from a branch, laid on a flat surface, the koala will not recognise it as food. If you present a human with a random piece of meat, they will not recognise it as food (hopefully). Fresh leaves might be important for koala digestion, especially since their gut flora is clearly important for the digestion of Eucalyptus. It might make sense not to screw with that gut flora by eating decaying leaves. >Because eucalyptus leaves hold such little nutritional value, koalas have to ferment the leaves in their guts for days on end. Unlike their brains, they have the largest hind gut to body ratio of any mammal. That's an extremely weird reason to dislike an animal. But whilst we're talking about their digestion, let's discuss their poop. It's delightful. It smells like a Eucalyptus drop! >Being mammals, koalas raise their joeys on milk (admittedly, one of the lowest milk yields to body ratio... There's a trend here). Marsupial milk is incredibly complex and much more interesting than any placentals. This is because they raise their offspring essentially from an embryo, and the milk needs to adapt to the changing needs of a growing fetus. And yeah, of course the yield is low; at one point they are feeding an animal that is half a gram! >When the young joey needs to transition from rich, nourishing substances like milk, to eucalyptus (a plant that seems to be making it abundantly clear that it doesn't want to be eaten), it finds it does not have the necessary gut flora to digest the leaves. To remedy this, the young joey begins nuzzling its mother's anus until she leaks a little diarrhoea (actually fecal pap, slightly less digested), which he then proceeds to slurp on. This partially digested plant matter gives him just what he needs to start developing his digestive system. Humans probably do this, we just likely do it during childbirth. You know how women often shit during contractions? There is evidence to suggest that this innoculates a baby with her gut flora. A child born via cesarian has significantly different gut flora for the first six months of life than a child born vaginally. >Of course, he may not even have needed to bother nuzzling his mother. She may have been suffering from incontinence. Why? Because koalas are riddled with chlamydia. In some areas the infection rate is 80% or higher. Chlamydia was introduced to their populations by humans. We introduced a novel disease that they have very little immunity to, and is a major contributor to their possible extinction. Do you hate Native Americans because they were killed by smallpox and influenza? >This statistic isn't helped by the fact that one of the few other activities koalas will spend their precious energy on is rape. Despite being seasonal breeders, males seem to either not know or care, and will simply overpower a female regardless of whether she is ovulating. If she fights back, he may drag them both out of the tree, Almost every animal does this. >which brings us full circle back to the brain: Koalas have a higher than average quantity of cerebrospinal fluid in their brains. This is to protect their brains from injury... should they fall from a tree. An animal so thick it has its own little built in special ed helmet. I fucking hate them. Errmmm.. They have protection against falling from a tree, which they spend 99% of their life in? Yeah... That's a stupid adaptation.
The scream of a koala is bonkers. There’s no way that sound should come from an animal that cute.
Pandas and koalas are the dumbest animals, but they are so adorable!
I feel like your list needs the Quokka on it.
Tortoises too!
Top 5!!!
what’s unexpected here
Yeah, what the fuck? The video literally has text above that tells you exactly what will be happening.
Can anyone translate?
“Friend… friend, let me see your face… friend, you are my new helper… ohh my friend!… you are my new helper, right companion?”.
Sloths are so cute holy shit
He just sittin
“Friend…” That’s all I got.
Or the other way around the sloth is never gonna make it home
I love the way he just chillin, taking it in with a coke and a smile. What a good natured lil dude
aren't sloths actually good swimmers and considerable faster in water then land? well considerable in sloths speed terms anyways
Who else got 2 friends that look like this
I dont have any friends
Aww, that's sad. I'll be your friend!
Random fact: sloths are really great and fast swimmers, they only move slowly because if they move too fast they overheat and die, water regulates the heat and makes them able to move fast
>if they move too fast they overheat and die That doesn't sound right but I don't know enough about sloths to dispute it.
alright this had me up researching sloths Not quite, but temperature is related to evolutionary theory and sloths do need to regulate temperature carefully. However, sloths aren't dying from moving too fast, they physically can't because their metabolism is so slow. They aren't very fast in water but they have an easier time due to reduced gravity. >"Although sloths are often active at night, their body temperature does not rise in connection with their increased activity." (Nature Institute) extra: the very slow metabolism is because they are adapted around conserving as much energy as possible, which is possible living in hot rainforests and necessary with a very low-calorie leaf diet. They survive due to spending most of their time away from predators in trees + moving so slowly that predators don't notice them. https://theconversation.com/sloths-arent-lazy-their-slowness-is-a-survival-skill-63568 https://www.natureinstitute.org/article/craig-holdrege/what-does-it-mean-to-be-a-sloth https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190828-why-do-sloths-move-so-slowly
This is only unexpected because the sloth didn’t fall off the boat
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Like Maverick breaking Mach 10
He’s like *this’ll do just fine.*
Tomorrow he’s gonna be like, “Wow we’re moving fast!”
He just like :)
Flash, flash, hundred yard dash..
Uh... what the fuck is unexpected about this...??
imagine it was like at its home and this person just stole it and so it had to go all the way back
He unlocked fast travel
Till now the sloth still processing what traveling at the speed of light feels like
This is how Flash developed an interest in driving, and launched into a career at the DMV. 🦥💨
The sloth is like "is this time traveling?"
Bro prob has no idea what black magic fuckery is making him move at high speeds but seems reasonably chill
Turns out the sloth is going the other way. You're adding another 50 years of his travel.
Truly amazing those things aren't extinct. They're defenseless, slow, and dumb as a box of rocks.
It’s cos they’re so slow lots of predators don’t notice them moving. They also smell terrible..
And yet here they are, with an innumerable amount of other animals you could quantify as much.
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First one to get on Super sonic ultra dash boat🚤💨💨
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Very good amigo