Originally published at: http://boingboing.net/2016/11/08/turns-out-sloths-are-pretty-go.html
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There’s a Animal Planet series a few years back called “Meet the Sloths” that is quite entertaining and in depth watching.
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He was looking for a “quickie” 
Hey Deloris, did you know sloths are good swimmers?
…seriously though, i’d have never guessed they could swim like that, way to go flash.
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Way back in the day, there were (semi-) aquatic megasloths.
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Ugh. Sloths are creepy… they are just laying low, waiting for the chance to strike out and rip out our throats with those long, creepy claws…
Did I mention sloths creepy me out?
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Do you think the lizard v snake youtube got borked because of the PE2 video, or the yakkity sax overlay?
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Cue the Otis Redding at 16 rpm.
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Boo!
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I always thought that sloths were shit swimmers…
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Researchers who have encountered aggressive sloths often end up saying they were astounded by how fast sloths can move when they want to.
Hoffman’s 2 toed sloth is still my favorite animal though.
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Please tell me the baby iguana made it, I haven’t had the courage to watch it yet… Call it election jitters.
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yes, somehow it made it. watching the video is a stressful ride though, there are lots of parts where i was certain it hadn’t made it.
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OMG that seriously gave me the shivers…
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This makes me want to go back and re-read Stephen Jay Gould’s essay Can we truly know sloth and rapacity?
Not surprisingly he takes some older scientists to task for considering sloths lazy.
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Some did. One of them had an amazing escape. Racer snakes… 
I’LL SWALLOW YOUR SOUL!
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Aw… comfort thineself with a chewing capybara
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Thank you for being one of the few understanding…
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to be fair, I posted the original attack sloth! 
But have some cup bunnies.
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Well… after last night, at least sloths are no longer my greatest fear…
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