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fossilesque@mander.xyzM to Science Memes@mander.xyzEnglish · 11 months ago

Sloths 🦥

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Sloths 🦥

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fossilesque@mander.xyzM to Science Memes@mander.xyzEnglish · 11 months ago
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    🎵 Two lovers forbidden from one another 🎵

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    Secret Tunnel 🎶

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

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      A(lmost)NSFW

    • Death_Equity@lemmy.world
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      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.

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    Big enough to be comfortably used by humans

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

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      Coober Peby Australia has you covered!

  • Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works
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    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

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      “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.”

    • Agent641@lemmy.world
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      What if we domesticated them and used them to mine coal?

    • tetris11@lemmy.ml
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      11 months ago

      that sounds like the plot of Ring of Fire

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    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

  • Diplomjodler@lemmy.world
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    And what happened to the giant sloths?

    • 9point6@lemmy.world
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      Miniaturisation and the march of progress

      How do you think we got tardigrades

    • TheTechnician27@lemmy.world
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      We domesticated them and made purse sloths.

    • ℛ𝒶𝓋ℯ𝓃@pawb.social
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      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.

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

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      To hide from their responsibility.

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      enter X-files theme song

    • affiliate@lemmy.world
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      even bigger sloths

    • ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world
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      To protect their young would be my guess.

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      Short-faced bear or humans.

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    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

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      I thought this was a posting to “Idiots of Facebook” at first. Guess I’m the idiot

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    So long and thanks for the avacados!

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    … Looks like the recent images from inside my sinus’.

    Less boogies though.

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    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.

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

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megatherium#Ecology

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        I hear what you’re saying, and I recognize anyone inside would be safe from being eaten… However, as with an elephant, I wouldn’t want to be woken up in the middle of the night having intruded upon their home.

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          nah they’d be chill. They’d be like “waaat” and make some initial annoyed sounds at first, but then once you pull out the bong they’d settle down real quick

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            Giant Sloths high as fuck… Would that make the super sloths, or go the opposite way and speed them up?

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      Sounds a lot like Minecraft.

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    Sloths are well known for their industrious nature.

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    deleted by creator

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      I don’t know, it sure seems like there’s an idea this poster has passed on to all of us…

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      But it’s been shared

      Given the community we’re in—what’s a meme?

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    Sloth city.

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

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        You are thinking of Pig City in Georgia.

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        Wait, what?

        E: this? https://www.appcpanama.org/sloth-sanctuary.html

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          I was making a joke about cop city. Sorry it sucked😒

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            It probably didn’t, I just don’t have the reference in my head for it.

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