Tuesday, July 15, 2014

Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Sloths But Were Afraid To Ask Fun Love

Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Sloths But Were Afraid To Ask Fun Love




I visited real sloths at the Sloth Sanctuary of Costa Rica just so that I could finally have some answers…



Summer Anne Burton


A: Sloths have no real natural body odor, which helps hide and protect them from potential predators. As a result, their natural smell is a projection of whatever you're feeling at the moment you encounter one. Given that you're meeting a sloth, that feeling is generally joy, excitement, warmth, and love. What do those feelings smell like, you ask? Like laundry, watermelon rind, the top of a baby's head, boiling water, and fresh cut grass all mixed together.


A: Two-fingered sloths have two fingers, and three-fingered sloths have three fingers. Some people think their fingers are toes or claws, but they're actually finger bones. The other differences include:

- three-fingered sloths are pickier eaters, two-fingered sloths will eat anything.

- three-fingered sloths always look like they're happy, two-fingered sloths also always look happy but, like, slightly less so, like maybe there's something bothering them in the back of their minds.

- three-fingered sloths prefer Paul, while two-fingered sloths prefer John.


A: Sloths have low metabolisms, so they have to move slowly in order to conserve energy. However, they aren't aimless or "lazy" and they actually move around quite a lot — just very, very slowly. Every move a sloth makes is with purpose, which is more than most of us can say about 90% of the time.




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