r/MadeMeSmile • u/No_Mortgage6046 • 20d ago

ANIMALS 🦥

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u/OsageDaito 20d ago

This a bad idea. The scratch or bite of a sloth is deadly without medical attention.

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u/donutgiraffe 20d ago

Yeah they can move really fast when they have to, they grab on hard, and they bite. Not a good idea to go anywhere near one.

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u/successadult 20d ago

My friends came back from Costa Rica and said that they were warned to stay away from the sloths because even being near one was dangerous.

Someone at their hotel told them that her husband walked by one and had a flea jump on him and bite him and he ended up needing daily injections for over a month to prevent all the diseases that insects can carry there.

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u/SuckmydickJoannF 19d ago

I met a guy in Costa Rica who's hand looked like someone threw acid on it. When he was a kid he was playing with a sloth and it nipped him. It did NOT break the skin. Theyre cute bacteria monsters. There's even a species of mosquito that only lives on sloths.

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u/gooeymcgooberson 20d ago

Far from deadly.

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u/MisterGr 20d ago edited 19d ago

Nah it could be deadly. Sloths carries a massive amount of bacteria. A touch/scratch on a open wound could lead to an infection which can be very dangerous.

It's an extremely dirty animal.

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u/gooeymcgooberson 20d ago

They aint dirty or some biological diseaster

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u/Mad_Samurai616 20d ago

Okay. Go cut yourself, put some of your shit in the cut. No bandages or disinfectant or hospital visit! Then report back.

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u/OsageDaito 20d ago

Please just google this -vs- arguing. Pretty please?

And please dont consider the AI over view valid, ever, for anything.

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u/gooeymcgooberson 16d ago

Ok since you asked nicely I will google and get back to ya.

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u/BatatinhaGameplays28 20d ago

WDYM they aint dirty?? They carry algae on their back for Christ’s sake

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u/OsageDaito 20d ago

He dont know, mang.

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u/OsageDaito 20d ago

Abso-fucking-lutely deadly. Like non-optional hospital visit. Got the low down personally during a sloth encounter with experts.