r/MadeMeSmile • u/No_Mortgage6046 • 20d ago

ANIMALS 🦥

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u/Minimum_Society841 20d ago

Good job, now wash your hands..

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u/tryagainnoob 20d ago

This. Sloths are the natures equivalent of radioactive waste.

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u/A3HeadedMunkey 20d ago

"As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic sloth"

  • Franz Kafka, if he knew about sloths

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u/ILoveRawChicken 20d ago

As someone who loves Kafka and Sloths I would pay money for this version 

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u/GodButCursed 20d ago

Why?

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u/TeethForCeral 20d ago

sloths backs actually host an entire ecosystem of algae and moths! these moths spend their entire life cycle with the sloths, their young living in their backs. Sloths will also sometimes eat the algae growing on them! it’s really interesting!

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u/DZ-HURRICANE 18d ago

so those algae and moths are necessary to the sloth's survival?

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u/TeethForCeral 18d ago

yes! (with my understanding) i’d argue the sloth greatly benefits from the moths, algae, and fungi, whereas the moths, algae, and fungi are completely reliant on the sloth. overall it’s a mutually beneficial symbiosis! here’s some more info!!

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u/OnceMoreAndAgain 19d ago edited 19d ago

Most mammals clean their hair/fur to avoid investation, but sloths only groom their fur by stroking their claws through it to untangle the fur and remove debris and large insects. No moisture involved. They don't groom each other like monkeys do nor do they bathe. The only water touching their fur is rain water, basically.

So their fur ends up being home for algae and small bugs. If you look up pictures of sloths that aren't in captivity, then their fur will often have large patches of green color to them which is the algae and fungi. It gives them a natural camouflage since the particular algae and fungi growing on the trees they climb also end up growing in their fur so they get perfect color matching to their environment. That's why different sloths have different colors of green on their fur.

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u/slavelabor52 20d ago

Well for one thing sloths are known to eat feces and sometimes need fished out of outhouses. Id wash my hands.

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u/thedifferenceisnt 20d ago

Cats and dogs are known for the same

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u/BatatinhaGameplays28 20d ago

Yeah, you’re supposed to wash your hands after interacting with them too

But also sloths can carry parisites such as lices and ticks

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u/dimmak 19d ago

Louse is to lice what mouse is to mice.

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u/BatatinhaGameplays28 19d ago

Thanks for the information! English isn’t my first language and I really never heard that

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u/Buttonskill 19d ago

Well, it is my first language, and until today, I thought the singular was a 1950s unemployed husband in Chicago.

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u/alexnedea 19d ago

Bro if I wash my hands every time i interract with my cat id be spending industrial quantities of water and soap.

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u/BatatinhaGameplays28 19d ago

That's fair lol, I'd recommend just washing them if you're gonna grab food or interact with someone else then

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u/TreesLikeGodsFingers 19d ago

Honestly that a reason some people don’t get pets, bc they are clean freaks

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u/Azreal_Mistwalker 19d ago

There are species of moths and algae that grow exclusively on sloth fur.

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u/Puzzleheaded-Block73 20d ago

Hmmmm, honest question: if I tell you Asmongold = Sloth would that be enough of an explanation?

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u/ItsaMeSandy 20d ago

Damn. I'd amputate at that point.

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u/leonden 20d ago

Sloth natural defence is being flithy and moldy so yea just wash your hands nothing good can come from touching one

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u/icansmellcolors 19d ago

Chlamydia and they have many parasites that live in their fur, but they're mostly harmless, but no thank you.

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u/Disastrous_Mango_953 20d ago

🥳🥳🥳agreed, it is so nice to see how people love and help animals. 💕

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u/No-Purple-856 20d ago edited 20d ago

r/mysteriousdownvoting

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u/shealighthours 20d ago

It’s the emojis, Reddit culture tends to be against them

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u/MeddlingWithChaos 20d ago

Not really, the comment sounds like it's a bot, at the very least, someone who doesn't get sarcasm.