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Sloths 🦥 (mander.xyz)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 178 points 3 months ago (6 children)

Basically a badgermole from Avatar, the last airbender

[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 months ago

Exactly my thought lol

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[–] [email protected] 110 points 3 months ago (1 children)

🎵 Two lovers forbidden from one another 🎵

[–] [email protected] 66 points 3 months ago (1 children)

🎵 A war divides their people 🎵

[–] [email protected] 52 points 3 months ago (1 children)

🎵 And a mountain divides them apart, build a path to be together 🎵

[–] [email protected] 40 points 3 months ago

...Yeah, and I forget the next couple of lines, but then it goes...

Secret tunnel!

Secret tunnel!

Through the mountain! 

Secret, secret, secret, secret tunnel

[–] [email protected] 88 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Secret Tunnel 🎶

[–] [email protected] 39 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Through the mountains 🎵

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 3 months ago (3 children)

If they still existed they would probably have moved into existing human-mined tunnels. Whether they'd wait until we abandoned them or chase us out, or help us build them, would depend on our relationship with them

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

What if we domesticated them and used them to mine coal?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

"A train derailed in the tunnel due to a giant sloth sleeping on the tracks. No word of survivors at the time of recording, but officials say that they are expecting multiple fatalities including the sloth."

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

that sounds like the plot of Ring of Fire

[–] [email protected] 37 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Big enough to be comfortably used by humans

Pffffbtbtbt, housing crisis schmousing crisis. There's your answer, chaps.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Just wait until some oil baron says that sloth-dug tunnels is the way to "deal" with climate change.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Coober Peby Australia has you covered!

[–] [email protected] 36 points 3 months ago (2 children)

The tiny thumbnail for this looked like a belly button on my phone, had no idea what I was tapping on at first

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

A(lmost)NSFW

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

The fun part is that you were more curious than apprehensive and were willing to subject yourself to whatever the Internet brought you for the day.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 months ago

So my take from this is, the higher above ground level a sloth is, the lazier it gets.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I heard if you turn out the lights and kiss your crush, you can find a way out of the tunnel.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I may not be remembering correctly, but didn't Sloth dig the tunnel in Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood?

Edit: had to look it up. He did. Probably a coincidence

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 months ago

I'm having a hard time not seeing a belly button.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago (4 children)

And what happened to the giant sloths?

[–] [email protected] 36 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Earth warms up from ice age. Big sloth too fuzzy. Loses fuzz and tries to climb tree. Big sloth too big. Small big sloth gets smaller, climbs tree.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Lol I know this is a joke but they died out, tree sloths existed back then too and are a totally separate group of animals. They didn’t evolve from the animals that dug this tunnel. They do share a common ancestor millions of years ago but this is like saying saber tooth cats evolved into house cats.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago

but this is like saying saber tooth cats evolved into house cats.

I'm pretty sure my house cat believes this is true, evidence to the contrary be damned.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

but we all came from the same common ancestor which was the naked nucleic acid/peptide chain

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago

We ate them 😔

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Miniaturisation and the march of progress

How do you think we got tardigrades

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

We domesticated them and made purse sloths.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I wasn't sure if this was true or a weird misunderstanding or conspiracy type thing. Seems to be true. Here is an accessible writeup: https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20231127-brazils-mysterious-tunnels-made-by-giant-sloths

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

I thought this was a posting to "Idiots of Facebook" at first. Guess I'm the idiot

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago (5 children)

These giant slots dug these giants tunnels to hide from whom?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

To hide from their responsibility.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

even bigger sloths

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

enter X-files theme song

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

So long and thanks for the avacados!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

... Looks like the recent images from inside my sinus'.

Less boogies though.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Sloth city.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (4 children)

That’s in the south, right? I heard a lot of humanists and that ilk are trying to stop them from building it?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

You are thinking of Pig City in Georgia.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

Sloths are well known for their industrious nature.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Can you imagine being stuck in the dawn of human agriculture, and you seek shelter in a nice cave that you found.... And then a Giant Sloth just lumbers in after a bit.

I mean, I imagine any Homo species of the time would know not to go inside one of these, but still.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

So not giant sloths specifically, but Australian Aboriginals have oral histories describing megafauna that went extinct around the same time period

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

Megatheriums were herbivores, so it would be like spending the night with an elephant.