# Meet the Sloths! WARNING! Cuteness inside! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 19, 2010, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-the-sloths-warning-cuteness-inside/539980 "2010-05-19T06:34:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Bearflag70](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Bearflag70](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bearflag70)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2010, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-the-sloths-warning-cuteness-inside/539980/1 "2010-05-19T06:34:29Z")
[Sloths](http://vimeo.com/11712103)! ---
**Author:** ![FloatyGimpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/floatygimpy/32/7750_2.png) [@FloatyGimpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FloatyGimpy)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2010, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-the-sloths-warning-cuteness-inside/539980/2 "2010-05-19T06:59:24Z")
I watched it 4 times and couldn’t stop smiling. I particularly love king sloth at the end. ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2010, 7:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-the-sloths-warning-cuteness-inside/539980/3 "2010-05-19T07:24:56Z")
Aww! I loved the two sloths chomping away at either end of a green bean. Natch! ---
**Author:** ![Ale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@Ale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ale)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2010, 8:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-the-sloths-warning-cuteness-inside/539980/4 "2010-05-19T08:56:40Z")
They are wonderfully equipped for scratching, a triumph of evolution! ---
**Author:** ![RalfCoder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f1d935/32.png) [@RalfCoder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RalfCoder)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2010, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-the-sloths-warning-cuteness-inside/539980/5 "2010-05-19T12:06:11Z")
> [@FloatyGimpy](#): > > I watched it 4 times and couldn’t stop smiling. I particularly love king sloth at the end. You mean the one that looked like Yoda’s grampa? I like the 4 of 'em lined up on the table, eating. Too cute!!! ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2010, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-the-sloths-warning-cuteness-inside/539980/6 "2010-05-19T13:37:35Z")
[The Sloth Song](http://www.nyanko.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/fas/bestiary_sloth.html) ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2010, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-the-sloths-warning-cuteness-inside/539980/7 "2010-05-19T13:58:34Z")
Yeah, that’s an awful lot of cute right there. Maybe I should go visit Homer, the sloth at the Detroit Zoo some time soon. ---
**Author:** ![Renee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/renee/32/287_2.png) [@Renee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Renee)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2010, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-the-sloths-warning-cuteness-inside/539980/8 "2010-05-19T14:08:39Z")
That’s wonderful. Enough to make me want a pet sloth. ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2010, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-the-sloths-warning-cuteness-inside/539980/9 "2010-05-19T14:21:21Z")
Too cute. Thank gawd I have high speed internet now… ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2010, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-the-sloths-warning-cuteness-inside/539980/10 "2010-05-19T15:06:35Z")
> [@RalfCoder](#): > > I like the 4 of 'em lined up on the table, eating. Too cute!!! Aw yes, that was adorable. ---
**Author:** ![Sudo\_Intellectual](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/73ab20/32.png) [@Sudo\_Intellectual](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sudo_Intellectual)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2010, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-the-sloths-warning-cuteness-inside/539980/11 "2010-05-19T16:22:47Z")
Made my whole day! Love them. I think I need one in our office. I work for a company that deals with Costa Rica. He could be our mascot!! We could love him and pet him and name him George!! (Or Jorge) ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2010, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-the-sloths-warning-cuteness-inside/539980/12 "2010-05-19T18:00:36Z")
> [@Ale](#): > > They are wonderfully equipped for scratching, a triumph of evolution! Apparently, they itch a lot. So yeah, good thing they’ve got those large economy sized claws or talons or whatever they are. ---
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2010, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-the-sloths-warning-cuteness-inside/539980/13 "2010-05-19T18:23:40Z")
How come something with claws that big and deadly looking be so damn cute? ---
**Author:** ![Sailboat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sailboat/32/461_2.png) [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2010, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-the-sloths-warning-cuteness-inside/539980/14 "2010-05-19T21:20:25Z")
It loads too slowly for me…is that ironic? ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2010, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-the-sloths-warning-cuteness-inside/539980/15 "2010-05-19T21:46:56Z")
> [@Renee](#): > > That’s wonderful. Enough to make me want a pet sloth. What are they like as pets? Anyone know? ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Woodhouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/838e76/32.png) [@Miss\_Woodhouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Woodhouse)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2010, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-the-sloths-warning-cuteness-inside/539980/16 "2010-05-19T21:51:44Z")
> [@](#): > > What are they like as pets? Anyone know? They take three days to fetch the ball. ---
**Author:** ![Ibanez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a4c791/32.png) [@Ibanez](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ibanez)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2010, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-the-sloths-warning-cuteness-inside/539980/17 "2010-05-19T21:59:58Z")
Cute. Ever see a sloth get eaten by a predator ? Not suprisingly they don’t even flinch or resist. Sorry for the buzz kill continue on… ---
**Author:** ![myskepticsight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cc9497/32.png) [@myskepticsight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/myskepticsight)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2010, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-the-sloths-warning-cuteness-inside/539980/18 "2010-05-19T22:40:32Z")
SLOTHS [http://www.hulu.com/watch/17201/saturday-night-live-sloths](http://www.hulu.com/watch/17201/saturday-night-live-sloths) ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2010, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-the-sloths-warning-cuteness-inside/539980/19 "2010-05-20T01:49:33Z")
[A slothful Wikipedia article](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sloth). One of my favorite trivia facts is that ground sloths are not totally extinct. The big ones of the Pleistocene are, of course. But there were four lineages of ground sloth, plus the arboreal _Bradypodidae_, the so-called three-toed tree sloths. The so-called two–toed sloths of genus _Choloepus_ (which have three toes on their hind feet but only two fingers on their forefeet; count the claws) are in general lighter-colored, larger, more active, and spend more time on the ground than the _Bradypus_ species. But the fun part of this is that they’re survivors of the family of ground sloths _Megalonychidae_, originally named by Thomas Jefferson, that have survived by taking on a tree-living habitat. (Jefferson instructed Lewis and Clark to keep an eye out for surviving _Megalonyx_ out West. He didn’t realize their surviving relatives were all down in Central and South America.) ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2010, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-the-sloths-warning-cuteness-inside/539980/20 "2010-05-20T01:55:35Z")
Back in the day, the Denver Zoo had the sloths at one end of the primate house, sharing a cage with some kind of monkey. (Squirrel monkeys? Don’t quote me.) The sloths liked to hang off this heavy-duty chicken wire strung across the top. Every once in a while, you’d see one of the monkeys manage to get on top of the wire and attempt to pry the sloths loose. I guess it amused the monkeys, and it certainly amused me. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-the-sloths-warning-cuteness-inside/539980.md?page=2)