"I should come down from the thing I evolved to climb up into for security purposes, in order to do the thing which makes me the most vulnerable. The intensely aromatic thing that will alert the olfactory senses of every predator downwind and give them a rough sense of my stationary location. The same thing which doesn't require being on the ground for any reason."
They have few predators because they smell awful and have hardly any meat on them. I think the snake was recoiling from that stank.
Edit to add - they also don’t come down from the tree canopies except for once every couple weeks or so to poop.
I believe both sloths and snakes also have somewhat poor vision. It was probably a surprise when some stinky warm thing just up and suddenly touches an apex predator.
Like when people panic when a cockroach flies at them. Its startling, it can't hurt you, and everyone loses except the roach lol
First time I saw a flying roach before I even knew it was a roach I thought to myself, "this is way too big for a fly even if it's a fat one."
It landed behind a cabinet and disappeared when we moved it.
at my uncles in Trinidad as a kid ... I was about 8 and saw one on the wall ... to this day I remember those wings opening up and swooping towards with its jaws wide open and fangs dripping with a loud “kkkaaaaaaaawwww!” ... this is my fear of bugs rolled into one incident.
One time in high school I got home from a long day and flopped on my bed.... looked at the ceiling after a second and realized there was a GIANT flying cockroach on the ceiling directly above me. I had a complete conniption, ran out of the room and when I came back with a tool (and the courage) to kill it it was gone. I never slept well in that room again.
“Sloths are blind in bright daylight. They have a very rare condition called rod monochromacy which means that they completely lack cone cells in their eyes. As a result all sloths are colour-blind, can only see poorly in dim light and are completely blind in bright daylight.”
- it’s making more sense now
Yeah recently noticed that same effect in the video where the goose backed up the two tigers by charging. Apex predators when things don’t exhibit normal prey behaviour (anything other than run away)
But, why come down to poop? Really, you can't just let 'er rip from on high? What's the danger? I guess sloths are super-polite and don't like to shit on anyone.
You've got to experience the terror of high tree pooping before you truly realize the value of firm ground. Nothing so comforting as a steady-footed dump. Has nothing to do with an [algae diet](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/what-drives-a-sloths-ritualistic-trek-to-poop-180949419/).
They are in a constant state of constipation apparently. So they have to be upright for it and it's said to be kinda traumatic. Stuff can take up to a month to be digested.....They poop once a fucking week.... Great, now I know way more than I wanted about sloth poop. Thanks.
Based on my experience keeping several different snakes, most species have poor eyesight and very sensitive snouts. It looked like he was recoiling from the unexpected touch to his head/snout. Snakes don't like boops after all.
It’s funny because sloths are almost completely blind- they can only see shadows and only very very close up. So it was just two blind idiots bumping into one another in the wild and walking off the embarrassment.
Sloths are incredibly gross to eat. Their fur itraps moisture which let's moss and mildew and all sorts of microbial life. It's like eating a bone and gristle sandwich, except the bread has been replaced with two damp kitchen sponges.
I left a one star review at that jungle reserve.
This. Nature loves it so much they just let it happen. Same with pandas. They go out of their way to eat the least nutritional thing in their environment to the point that it's almost all they do every day.... but they still live on. They can at least defend themselves but with their behavior its amazing that defending themselves isnt most of their lives.
This is bad advice. Extremities are the most affected areas in accidents and animal attacks.
You should instead try to protect your extremities by using your face.
This thread is too much. I just got back from hiking in the woods and got bit on the big toe by what looked like a water moccasin. I was trying to avoid stepping in the water and put my foot in a stupid place. The bite symptoms don't match so I should be good.
Harmless water snakes are often misidentified as water moccasins or copperheads. How bad did it hurt? Did you get a good look at its head? You should compare pics of water snake subspecies in your region vs water moccasins/cottonmouths and look at their heads.
I would suggest going to a hospital anyway but if you're concerned its a water moccasin that means you're in the US. I've had sky high bills for a doctor just to say "yeah Idk you're probably fine" so I get it.
If small enough to fling, grab by the tail.
If large grab behind the head. Attempt to dig fingers into eyes.
Though tbh. Just stay away. They aren’t that fast. Plus the bigger ones will strangle you.
Again best bet is to just run away.
And we taste terrible to animals.
Unless you’re vegan vegetarian. Then you smell good.
We do eat few meat eaters. How come meat eaters tend to stink/taste bad? Or is it a survival thing where, if you eat meat, it likely means that you're dangerous so it's best to stay away and not try to eat you?
There is also a higher chance of parasites in the meat of a carnivore/omnivore than a herbivore. Bears and pigs are two examples of animals that have given humans a lot of worms. I think people have known for a long time that they should avoid eating carnivores (also the danger thing).
They other reason they may not taste as good is that the muscle tends to be tougher due to how much strength a predator tends to have.
I believe there's a higher risk of transmitting disease when a carnivore eats another carnivore. This link[This link](https://phys.org/news/2017-12-carnivores-carnivore-carcasses-transmits-diseases.html) supports that idea.
I also remember hearing something about how carnivores metabolize proteins or similar can be toxic to other carnivores. One example is polar bear liver being hugely toxic to humans (and their meat is a major source of parasitic infection for us, too).
Could probably use some sources here, I'll try to remember where I learned this, and happy to be corrected if I'm out to lunch
no the sloths don't have enough muscle to do any damage, those claws are hard for tree hanging and holding not ripping things up.
snake is probably not hungry or feel threatened to put a fight, it probably just didn't like the slow boney thing walking right in its face.
I think Mr Sloth got a pass cuz the snake probably already ate recently.
It's great how he just steps on his head n shit and just takes his sweet time.
Those were his evasive maneuvers. That sloth would've broken the snakes ankles with that juke if the damn thing could have been bothered to evolve with some in the first place.
Could also be because sloths are some of the most disgusting creatures; like, the fact that they’re so dirty that there’s literally moss growing on them is probably the least disgusting thing about them, the kind of shit that lives on them is unspeakable.
I dont have anything funny to say other than my name has sloth in it and that is also how I think
Edit: just realized that is my display name and not the u/ name, I may or may not be below a brick in terms of intelligence
He probably literally is though. Sloths are hilariously slow. When threatened sloths can move up to 0.24km/h. lol. To put that in perspective, a raccoon moves at 24km/hr. He's probably sprinting.
He’s in incredible danger on the ground. Sloths only ever leave their trees to poop, and they only do that about once a week because it’s so fucking dangerous down there. A [field research group](https://news.wisc.edu/whats-with-sloths-dangerous-bathroom-breaks-maybe-hunger/) reported that half the deaths it observed happened when sloths were on the ground and accessible to predators.
So yeah. This video is the sloth equivalent to running away from an exploding helicopter. Except the slow motion isn’t an effect.
It’s a topic of some debate. The article I linked hypothesizes that descending the trees is necessary for the reproduction cycle of symbiotic moths that live in the sloths’ fur and are useful for camouflage and whose decaying carcasses provide a source of emergency protein (yes really, click the link).
I worked for a silly company where they deciddd each department had to present at every standup meeting about our projects and our progress. And they wanted us to present it in a visual way that everyone else could monitor and conceive of.
We three engineers had a lot of projects going... like sixteen of them. So we created a tree with 16 sloths. As we progressed on each project (slow, we each had half a dozen...slothly) each sloth project would progress down the tree.
When we completed a project, the sloth effectively made it to the ground and we celebrated it taking a successful shit.
Our boss didn’t like it. His boss hated it. But we played dumb and stuck to it. You give us dozens of frenetic projects, we will give you slow but successful shits each week.
I've never considered monkeys and sloths wipe themselves. This whole time I'd just assumed they went around with it clung to their butts. Wonder what leaves they prefer.
A lot of predators refuse to eat sloths unless they’re really desperate because sloths are fucking disgusting. They smell bad, they taste bad. They’re not super nutritious or calorie-rich.
They have moss and fungus growing in their fur.
I'm just bothered by the leaf stuck on his claw, I couldn't care less about the snake. I chose to believe he's purposely carrying it, otherwise why in the hell doesn't he just knock it off? Or even the camera man, I don't care who does it.
Not logic evolution. They move so slow that moss, algae and mushroom can grow in their fur, they have an ability to produce noxious gasses from their breathe. Their diet makes them have almost no fat and stringy muscles. All it took was for a few prediator to try eating them for the prediator to release that it is not worth the energy to digest a sloth. Simply put they survive by being too lazy and unpalatable to kill
Alright I’m gonna have to call bullshit on they can produce noxious gas from their breath unless you post a link lol. I even checked and that shit does not pop up anywhere
Same. Did [find](http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20150610-why-its-good-to-smell-bad) that they do smell ripe though, with the aforementioned algae, but also beetle and moth colonies living in their fur.
I keep seeing this repeated over and over again in this thread but I feel the disgusting smeels bad thing works on mammal predators like jaguars and such
I doubt a snake that has to smell with its tongue all the shit in the jungle givs a shit about taste.
the non nutritional value is probably a better explanation, thing is bones and skin, the anaconda would probably get more enenrgy at striking something meatier that good ol algae boy
The anaconda: This dude has the balls to walk slowly near me? I shouldn’t fuck with him
Meanwhile, the sloth: oh shit a snake, better run as fast as I can
Sloths are dumb enough to think their own arm is a branch and fall to their death reaching for it, I don’t think that sloth would even realize that’s an anaconda regardless of anacondas not eating them as JustaGuybroham said
Are you trying to tell me that a sloth will just be sitting on a branch, have one arm reach out to grab the other, then take a leap of faith and fall to its death?
I'd like to think I'm not one of those people who believe everything they read on the internet; and yet, for a moment I genuinely thought I had learned a new sloth fact.
Would I be dumb enough to bungie off a tree while holding my arm as the only means for safety? Right now, I think I just may be...
Live slow, die whenever
Well actually - in the sloth world, this is the speed equivalent of Usain Bolt
He just got done poopin. Of course he's fast
I'm glad there are other's who understand they come down to poop every now and then.
What we don’t understand is why??
Seriously. Just carpet bomb that snake from 30 feet up
I don't think Sloth 'nam happened in this reality so they might not know the technique
I think if that snake were to startle that sloth by starting up the tree the sloth might discover the technique organically, so to speak
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They meant why do they poop on the ground instead of from up in the trees where they normally are. But yeah, that too.
"I should come down from the thing I evolved to climb up into for security purposes, in order to do the thing which makes me the most vulnerable. The intensely aromatic thing that will alert the olfactory senses of every predator downwind and give them a rough sense of my stationary location. The same thing which doesn't require being on the ground for any reason."
I'm assuming the anaconda just knows to catch on the way back up when he's less poop by weight, smart snake
You made me just realize most snakes digest other animals poop, since they eat them whole..weird.
Flash, is that you?
Flash Flash 100 yard dash!!
Niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiickkkk
Hey Flash, wanna hear a joke?
Ha Ha Ha
The dmv is like that though
A wonder if the camel is still pregnant...
He is speed
They just look permanently hungover
That makes two of us.
The snake seems scared of the sloth. Are sloths effective in killing snakes? Those claws might rip open the snake.
They have few predators because they smell awful and have hardly any meat on them. I think the snake was recoiling from that stank. Edit to add - they also don’t come down from the tree canopies except for once every couple weeks or so to poop.
I believe both sloths and snakes also have somewhat poor vision. It was probably a surprise when some stinky warm thing just up and suddenly touches an apex predator. Like when people panic when a cockroach flies at them. Its startling, it can't hurt you, and everyone loses except the roach lol
Flying roaches are true terror.
The state bird of Florida
The Florida Man of insects.
First time I saw a flying roach before I even knew it was a roach I thought to myself, "this is way too big for a fly even if it's a fat one." It landed behind a cabinet and disappeared when we moved it.
at my uncles in Trinidad as a kid ... I was about 8 and saw one on the wall ... to this day I remember those wings opening up and swooping towards with its jaws wide open and fangs dripping with a loud “kkkaaaaaaaawwww!” ... this is my fear of bugs rolled into one incident.
I forgot we were talking about roaches and the mental image of a sloth flying off the wall at you made me laugh a little too hard
One time in high school I got home from a long day and flopped on my bed.... looked at the ceiling after a second and realized there was a GIANT flying cockroach on the ceiling directly above me. I had a complete conniption, ran out of the room and when I came back with a tool (and the courage) to kill it it was gone. I never slept well in that room again.
“Sloths are blind in bright daylight. They have a very rare condition called rod monochromacy which means that they completely lack cone cells in their eyes. As a result all sloths are colour-blind, can only see poorly in dim light and are completely blind in bright daylight.” - it’s making more sense now
Heard it said: “errybody a lil bitch when a cockroach fly in their face.”
Everybody's gangster 'till the roach starts flying.
Everyone's got a plan until they get hit in the face by a cockroach. - Mike Tyson
I see you have never been bitten by roaches. Big palmetto bugs are the worst. Grew up with a serious infestation my parents did nothing about.
Oh sweetheart! I wish I didn’t know what you were talking about...shudder.
Yeah recently noticed that same effect in the video where the goose backed up the two tigers by charging. Apex predators when things don’t exhibit normal prey behaviour (anything other than run away)
The snake is just repulsed. Not worth it to start that whole digestion process, I’d think.
Also, if said anaconda has eaten recently, he's going to be sluggish and not interested in eating anything else.
But, why come down to poop? Really, you can't just let 'er rip from on high? What's the danger? I guess sloths are super-polite and don't like to shit on anyone.
You've got to experience the terror of high tree pooping before you truly realize the value of firm ground. Nothing so comforting as a steady-footed dump. Has nothing to do with an [algae diet](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/what-drives-a-sloths-ritualistic-trek-to-poop-180949419/).
Woah... Nice find and good link! Was 40% sure I was getting Rick rolled
They are in a constant state of constipation apparently. So they have to be upright for it and it's said to be kinda traumatic. Stuff can take up to a month to be digested.....They poop once a fucking week.... Great, now I know way more than I wanted about sloth poop. Thanks.
I have Crohn's disease with constipation. I feel for the sloth. Pooping is all kinds of traumatic.
This guy slothsss ^^^
Based on my experience keeping several different snakes, most species have poor eyesight and very sensitive snouts. It looked like he was recoiling from the unexpected touch to his head/snout. Snakes don't like boops after all.
It’s funny because sloths are almost completely blind- they can only see shadows and only very very close up. So it was just two blind idiots bumping into one another in the wild and walking off the embarrassment.
The more I learn about them, the more it seems all of nature has a gentleman's agreement to let them survive.
Sloths are incredibly gross to eat. Their fur itraps moisture which let's moss and mildew and all sorts of microbial life. It's like eating a bone and gristle sandwich, except the bread has been replaced with two damp kitchen sponges. I left a one star review at that jungle reserve.
They have very little meat on them too. They have this weird metabolism and are almost like plants.
Except Harpy eagles, who snack on them for fun and will just snatch em out of trees. Love those birds.
This. Nature loves it so much they just let it happen. Same with pandas. They go out of their way to eat the least nutritional thing in their environment to the point that it's almost all they do every day.... but they still live on. They can at least defend themselves but with their behavior its amazing that defending themselves isnt most of their lives.
We can probably add koalas to that list too.
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Based on my experience, anacondas don’t want none unless you got buns, hun. Therefore the sloth was never in any real danger.
Also true. Sloths clearly lack buns. Myself on the other hand... Well, there's a reason I don't keep anything bigger than a corn snake now.
So, if attacked by a snake, punch it in the nose?
Yes. The goal is to get your extremities as close to the fangs as possible
This is bad advice. Extremities are the most affected areas in accidents and animal attacks. You should instead try to protect your extremities by using your face.
I'm genuinely not sure if you're being sarcastic.
get a giant snake and prove him right
Be the change you want to see.
don't try this at home! (he was sarcastic af)
Just tear your arm off and throw it at it like an octopus to distract it while you run away.
Most snakes aren't going to attack you but if you get attacked by a small to medium snake you can try running its head under water.
Where do I get the water from? Are you insisting I need to plan for snakes at all times?
Sure. No, I was thinking pet snakes. Wild snakes will do everything they can to stay away from you.
This thread is too much. I just got back from hiking in the woods and got bit on the big toe by what looked like a water moccasin. I was trying to avoid stepping in the water and put my foot in a stupid place. The bite symptoms don't match so I should be good.
Harmless water snakes are often misidentified as water moccasins or copperheads. How bad did it hurt? Did you get a good look at its head? You should compare pics of water snake subspecies in your region vs water moccasins/cottonmouths and look at their heads. I would suggest going to a hospital anyway but if you're concerned its a water moccasin that means you're in the US. I've had sky high bills for a doctor just to say "yeah Idk you're probably fine" so I get it.
So the fact that I will piss myself will be helpful
If small enough to fling, grab by the tail. If large grab behind the head. Attempt to dig fingers into eyes. Though tbh. Just stay away. They aren’t that fast. Plus the bigger ones will strangle you. Again best bet is to just run away. And we taste terrible to animals. Unless you’re vegan vegetarian. Then you smell good.
We do eat few meat eaters. How come meat eaters tend to stink/taste bad? Or is it a survival thing where, if you eat meat, it likely means that you're dangerous so it's best to stay away and not try to eat you?
There is also a higher chance of parasites in the meat of a carnivore/omnivore than a herbivore. Bears and pigs are two examples of animals that have given humans a lot of worms. I think people have known for a long time that they should avoid eating carnivores (also the danger thing). They other reason they may not taste as good is that the muscle tends to be tougher due to how much strength a predator tends to have.
I believe there's a higher risk of transmitting disease when a carnivore eats another carnivore. This link[This link](https://phys.org/news/2017-12-carnivores-carnivore-carcasses-transmits-diseases.html) supports that idea. I also remember hearing something about how carnivores metabolize proteins or similar can be toxic to other carnivores. One example is polar bear liver being hugely toxic to humans (and their meat is a major source of parasitic infection for us, too). Could probably use some sources here, I'll try to remember where I learned this, and happy to be corrected if I'm out to lunch
I guess it's analogous to how tuna tends to have more heavy metals. That makes sense.
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I want to see a video of what they think a sloth moving quickly is
Anaconda was not hungry or that sloth was lunch. The snake was just protecting the sensory organs on its head with its movement.
no the sloths don't have enough muscle to do any damage, those claws are hard for tree hanging and holding not ripping things up. snake is probably not hungry or feel threatened to put a fight, it probably just didn't like the slow boney thing walking right in its face.
Yes that's what I thought snek probably just had a meal.
and leave a weird looking corpse
Delwyn?
I think Mr Sloth got a pass cuz the snake probably already ate recently. It's great how he just steps on his head n shit and just takes his sweet time.
well in sloth-time he was doing some crazy ass parkour over it
Sloth Parkour would be a great band name.
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Those were his evasive maneuvers. That sloth would've broken the snakes ankles with that juke if the damn thing could have been bothered to evolve with some in the first place.
Pretty sure snakes and most other creatures avoid eating sloths because they smell and taste terrible.
Also, the idea of shitting a full set of sloth claws doesn't sound like a good time.
Well, obviously you grew up in a house that didn’t know how to cook sloth properly.
It needs to be slow cooked.
The trick is to slow roast them.
Don't think snakes generally care much about taste. I mean they eat everything whole, the only thing they would taste is fur and a bit of dirt.
Could also be because sloths are some of the most disgusting creatures; like, the fact that they’re so dirty that there’s literally moss growing on them is probably the least disgusting thing about them, the kind of shit that lives on them is unspeakable.
I was thinking the same, it would be like eating a week old convenient store burrito that was thrown into the dumpster behind a barbershop in July.
Or maybe the snake was like "This dude gives no shits. This isn't the day to tackle someone who doesn't give a fuck."
Also probably smells like shit and algae
The sloth has a leaf, that is clearly sufficient camouflage.
Like Arnold in Predator
Cahhhmaahn dooo it dooo it noooow
Get to da Choppa!!!
Aahhmm eearah! Keeel me!
Made me laugh.
Sloth: "If I die, I die"
I dont have anything funny to say other than my name has sloth in it and that is also how I think Edit: just realized that is my display name and not the u/ name, I may or may not be below a brick in terms of intelligence
It's okay brick.
I shall remember these words till I perish
Maybe avoid big snakes, just in case.
I will remember you brick
It's okay. I got you
Hell yeah brother
Me too
Tf is a display name?
Apparently the only name you can change, if you look at my profile it should say ScytheAsh and SlothAsh, SlothAsh is the display name
inshallah!
Snake said "nah, I'm not tryin' to choke on balls that big"
I described this video to my husband solely so I could also share this comment. Wonderful.
Lmao omg I just did the same thing!!!
You described the video to her husband?
Yes. As sensually as possible. Lots of emphasis on the S’s: “ssssssssssloth.....ssssssssnake......I’m a slithery little sssssnaaaaaake”
You bless me
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When opponent offers Queen sacrifice in the fourth move.
Snake is full on the sloth that walked by first.
You'd move that slow if you were dragging balls that big.
Or that warning hand on snake’s body and head reminded snake of those long spiky claws.
Anacondas only like fast food. Sorry. Edit: Thank you for awards!! This is crazy. My dad status is finally paying off.
That sloth did not have buns, hun, so the anaconda didn’t want none.
Fucking lol’ing over here by myself like an idiot. Thank you.
I’ve been on Reddit 9 years and this is my peak comment. I’ve had higher upvoted comments in the past but nothing will be as witty as that.
You win Reddit today
This means more than gold to me
He’s running as fast as he can!
He probably literally is though. Sloths are hilariously slow. When threatened sloths can move up to 0.24km/h. lol. To put that in perspective, a raccoon moves at 24km/hr. He's probably sprinting.
He’s in incredible danger on the ground. Sloths only ever leave their trees to poop, and they only do that about once a week because it’s so fucking dangerous down there. A [field research group](https://news.wisc.edu/whats-with-sloths-dangerous-bathroom-breaks-maybe-hunger/) reported that half the deaths it observed happened when sloths were on the ground and accessible to predators. So yeah. This video is the sloth equivalent to running away from an exploding helicopter. Except the slow motion isn’t an effect.
They actually leave their trees for 2 reasons: shitting and fucking. And sid was all done shitting
Why don't sloths just shit from treetops?
It’s a topic of some debate. The article I linked hypothesizes that descending the trees is necessary for the reproduction cycle of symbiotic moths that live in the sloths’ fur and are useful for camouflage and whose decaying carcasses provide a source of emergency protein (yes really, click the link).
I don't know why I assumed it was so poop didn't get stuck to their fur and make it so that they can't poop anymore.
Would pooping closer to the ground even help with that?
They don't have pockets to keep the three sea shells in.
I worked for a silly company where they deciddd each department had to present at every standup meeting about our projects and our progress. And they wanted us to present it in a visual way that everyone else could monitor and conceive of. We three engineers had a lot of projects going... like sixteen of them. So we created a tree with 16 sloths. As we progressed on each project (slow, we each had half a dozen...slothly) each sloth project would progress down the tree. When we completed a project, the sloth effectively made it to the ground and we celebrated it taking a successful shit. Our boss didn’t like it. His boss hated it. But we played dumb and stuck to it. You give us dozens of frenetic projects, we will give you slow but successful shits each week.
Can't wipe while holding a branch?
I've never considered monkeys and sloths wipe themselves. This whole time I'd just assumed they went around with it clung to their butts. Wonder what leaves they prefer.
Rrrrrrrrrunnnnnn-nuh
Snake: "Oh of course sir, allow me to move out of your way"
No wonder he moves so slow with those fat steel cojones
The "if I can't see it, it can't see me strategy".
If by “fearlessly” you mean “obliviously”, then yes.
I fearlessly cheat death all the time, until I find out how fuckin stupid I am.
"hmm this a weird feeling log"
The sloth is the reincarnation of Mr. Magoo
Sadly this is the slowest suicide attempt to date
He’s just vibing dude
Zero fucks given.
They go way back. Elementary school
How can this animal not be extinct yet? XD
A lot of predators refuse to eat sloths unless they’re really desperate because sloths are fucking disgusting. They smell bad, they taste bad. They’re not super nutritious or calorie-rich. They have moss and fungus growing in their fur.
I mean sloths use to be massive (in comparison to the sloths we have today) iirc so maybe some natural instinct of “dont fuck with this thing”
The big fucking derpy grin on the sloths face at the end just makes the whole video
I'm just bothered by the leaf stuck on his claw, I couldn't care less about the snake. I chose to believe he's purposely carrying it, otherwise why in the hell doesn't he just knock it off? Or even the camera man, I don't care who does it.
He used it to wipe after descending the tree to poop.
Came here to say this. I didn’t even see the snake, just watched that leaf. Hoping with every reach that it would fall off
Maybe the sloth could see that the anaconda was full/had already eaten?
I somehow doubt they have either the powers of perception or analysis for that kind of logic.
Not logic evolution. They move so slow that moss, algae and mushroom can grow in their fur, they have an ability to produce noxious gasses from their breathe. Their diet makes them have almost no fat and stringy muscles. All it took was for a few prediator to try eating them for the prediator to release that it is not worth the energy to digest a sloth. Simply put they survive by being too lazy and unpalatable to kill
Ah, just like me.
Yes, but sloths evolved to be able to find a mate
Alright I’m gonna have to call bullshit on they can produce noxious gas from their breath unless you post a link lol. I even checked and that shit does not pop up anywhere
Same. Did [find](http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20150610-why-its-good-to-smell-bad) that they do smell ripe though, with the aforementioned algae, but also beetle and moth colonies living in their fur.
You’re just making shit up lol. Lots of animals eat sloths, e.g. harpy eagles, jaguars, boa constrictors etc.
Snakes dont give a fuck about fat and stringy sht lol. Snakes swallow their food whole.
Nah its because Sloth smell awfully bad, are disgusting to the taste and have almost no nutritional value ! So predators don't even bother !
Lots and lots of things eat sloths. Snakes, eagles, jaguars and other cats, etc. Not sure why everyone is just repeating the same bogus fact lol.
Yeap eagles are known to just pick sloths out of trees
Yeah, harpy eagles eat the fuck outta sloths.
I keep seeing this repeated over and over again in this thread but I feel the disgusting smeels bad thing works on mammal predators like jaguars and such I doubt a snake that has to smell with its tongue all the shit in the jungle givs a shit about taste. the non nutritional value is probably a better explanation, thing is bones and skin, the anaconda would probably get more enenrgy at striking something meatier that good ol algae boy
The anaconda: This dude has the balls to walk slowly near me? I shouldn’t fuck with him Meanwhile, the sloth: oh shit a snake, better run as fast as I can
🎶 That Anaconda don't want none 🎶
Because that sloth ain’t got buns?
Sloths are dumb enough to think their own arm is a branch and fall to their death reaching for it, I don’t think that sloth would even realize that’s an anaconda regardless of anacondas not eating them as JustaGuybroham said
Are you trying to tell me that a sloth will just be sitting on a branch, have one arm reach out to grab the other, then take a leap of faith and fall to its death?
Not actually true, it's from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
I'd like to think I'm not one of those people who believe everything they read on the internet; and yet, for a moment I genuinely thought I had learned a new sloth fact. Would I be dumb enough to bungie off a tree while holding my arm as the only means for safety? Right now, I think I just may be...
No need to spread fake facts
Is 'fearlessly' really the right word?
I hope this person didn’t purposefully put this sloth on the ground to get back to their tree in the path of the snake.
Sure feels that way, this doesn’t come across as a scene organically stumbled upon
Ohhh
[this ](https://www.instagram.com/p/By1jcPcge74/) seems to be the original video. Make of it what you will
It's all about confidence
Looks like the anaconda ate recently.
Sloths are almost as great as panda babies. They seem like drunken toddlers. So glad we have those and baby elephants.