Saturday, May 8, 2010

Not lazy, just motivationally challenged

This sloth seems to be in a hurry.
It's either trying to get away from the Peruvian nose leeches, or it wants to get to the latrine before anyone else.

9 comments:

M. Bouffant said...

As a sloth myself, I can assure you that he or she can only be hurrying to a nice spot to sleep. The latrine is simply everything beneath our branches.

Statuary sloths here & here, I might add.

Big Bad Bald Bastard said...

The early sloth gets the POOP with all the tasty corn niblets in it.

Smut Clyde said...

Not to mention the undigested fragments of mango.
I was under the impression that sloths do not betray their presence by pooping from the branches, but instead crawl down to ground level to excavate a hole in the ground. But I c.b.a. looking it up so I'll defer to Megatherium bouffant's personal experience.

Smut Clyde said...

I also want to say that if "statutary sloth" is not already a legal term, it should be.

M. Bouffant said...

"Statutary sloth" could well define M.B., ward of the nanny state. (Which leads to territory I'm not visiting!)

ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®© said...

The mango distribution business must be handled at the proper pace.
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J— said...

They do crawl down and dig a hole near the tree. It doesn't happen frequently, so when they go, it's a
big production.

When a sloth does defecate, it is no small matter. The Bradypus variegatus is said to sometimes take as long as an hour to complete the process and can expel around 250 g of feces and 800 - 1200 ml or urine. This amount if translated to a 70 kg human male is 27 kg of urine and feces or about 38% of their total body weight.

mikey said...

Now THAT'S a buncha shit...

Another Kiwi said...

trying to get away from the Peruvian nose leeches
Your nose can run, but it can't hide.