Attenborough: Saying Boo to a Sloth! | BBC Earth

Attenborough: Saying Boo to a Sloth! | BBC Earth
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In this amusing and entertaining clip from the BBC’s Life of Mammals, David Attenborough looks at the life of a sloth. The sloth has adapted to the lack of nutrition in its diet of leaves by hanging around not doing very much at all. We even get to see one moving at high speed! Watch more high quality videos on the BBC Earth YouTube channel here: http://www.youtube.com/BBCEarth and visit http://www.BBCEarth.com for all the latest natural history exclusives and fantastic new wildlife videos.

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  1. 1. To mark it's territory "stay away from my tree!". 2. For sanitary reasons, to not shit on it's food. 3. To keep away a slip and fall hazard; shit on the branches is dangerous. 4. Because shitting upside down is awkward, as is trying to perch on a branch when you're that clumsy.
    Common sense dictates that's why they climb down.

  2. when the poop escalating down the forest floor, maybe it make a sound so sloth location are likely to be detected by other predators. so they might have to be evolved that way? how about this theory?

  3. Mystery?? Wow people are dumb. Clearly it poops in one spot just like we would. And clearly it poops on the floor just like we we would…why would you shit and poop out of a tree in the woods when you know that the sound and smell of poop and piss falling in the the forest all around one tree is a big target on your back instead of a quiet shit and piss in one little spot.

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