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Speaker 1: a production of I Heart Radios How Stuff Works? Hey,

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Speaker 1: Chuck Bryant, There's guest producer Josh t over there thinking

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Speaker 1: on a leaf. Yeah. But imagine you're a wounded bird

421
00:25:03,560 --> 00:25:06,600
Speaker 1: and a toothless sloth is eating you to death. Yeah,

422
00:25:06,840 --> 00:25:09,760
Speaker 1: I imagine it's not a quick a quick death. No,

423
00:25:10,080 --> 00:25:13,919
Speaker 1: you get gummed to death. Uh. And I think the

424
00:25:13,920 --> 00:25:17,920
Speaker 1: fact of the show probably is this whole um, the

425
00:25:18,000 --> 00:25:21,600
Speaker 1: whole farting business. Sure, we'll take it all right. Well,

426
00:25:21,640 --> 00:25:25,280
Speaker 1: here's the deal. They eat so slow that they don't

427
00:25:25,320 --> 00:25:28,439
Speaker 1: even have gas that builds up in their system. Uh.

428
00:25:28,560 --> 00:25:31,520
Speaker 1: That is how slow they they are digesting their food,

429
00:25:31,640 --> 00:25:34,840
Speaker 1: so the gas just gets reabsorbed through the intestines and

430
00:25:34,880 --> 00:25:37,560
Speaker 1: into the bloodstream. Uh. And it says here that they're

431
00:25:38,040 --> 00:25:42,040
Speaker 1: the gases then, uh, respired out of the lungs. Does

432
00:25:42,040 --> 00:25:45,920
Speaker 1: that mean that they mouth for it or does it? Yeah?

433
00:25:46,240 --> 00:25:48,160
Speaker 1: I mean that's what I saw is that they have. Yeah,

434
00:25:48,160 --> 00:25:51,560
Speaker 1: they basically pass those same gases that they normally would

435
00:25:51,600 --> 00:25:56,120
Speaker 1: out of their their fannie in the American sense, um

436
00:25:56,440 --> 00:26:00,200
Speaker 1: the out of their mouth through breathing. Interesting. So yeah,

437
00:26:00,240 --> 00:26:04,200
Speaker 1: I guess the mouth fart worst band name ever. Worse

438
00:26:04,280 --> 00:26:09,359
Speaker 1: than diarrhea Planet. You're right, man, it's better than No,

439
00:26:09,560 --> 00:26:12,760
Speaker 1: it's actually worse than frozen poop knife. They should do

440
00:26:12,760 --> 00:26:17,200
Speaker 1: a joint tour. Yeah, yeah, you know that mouth fart

441
00:26:17,280 --> 00:26:19,760
Speaker 1: is going to be the opener always. They're never make

442
00:26:19,800 --> 00:26:22,840
Speaker 1: it to the headline. Boys are never headline, you know.

443
00:26:23,400 --> 00:26:25,200
Speaker 1: And I say boys because there's no way a girl

444
00:26:25,200 --> 00:26:29,560
Speaker 1: band would be called mouth fart the so uh. They

445
00:26:29,560 --> 00:26:31,480
Speaker 1: also have a multi chambered stomach sort of like a

446
00:26:31,520 --> 00:26:36,679
Speaker 1: cow um, which is really interesting because that's like a

447
00:26:36,720 --> 00:26:39,280
Speaker 1: third of their body weight if their stomachs are full.

448
00:26:40,440 --> 00:26:43,560
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, and I mean, like the reason why it's

449
00:26:43,560 --> 00:26:46,240
Speaker 1: so so much of their body ways because they digest

450
00:26:46,320 --> 00:26:49,400
Speaker 1: foods so slowly, they have to have this multi chambered

451
00:26:49,480 --> 00:26:52,560
Speaker 1: stomach to get as many nutrients as they possibly can

452
00:26:52,640 --> 00:26:55,760
Speaker 1: out of it. And even still, like, it's a really

453
00:26:55,880 --> 00:27:02,520
Speaker 1: terrible evolutionary strategy to evolve as a a strictly um

454
00:27:03,240 --> 00:27:08,320
Speaker 1: is it or bore vous as strictly tree dwelling herbivore,

455
00:27:08,920 --> 00:27:12,199
Speaker 1: Like that's that's a really bad strategy because you have

456
00:27:12,280 --> 00:27:16,080
Speaker 1: to be small enough to exist in the tree, right, Um,

457
00:27:16,160 --> 00:27:17,480
Speaker 1: but at the same time, you have to be big

458
00:27:17,600 --> 00:27:20,680
Speaker 1: enough to eat tons of leaves every day. Well, the

459
00:27:22,000 --> 00:27:24,280
Speaker 1: if not, you're because the leaves don't give you they're

460
00:27:24,280 --> 00:27:26,159
Speaker 1: not very energy dense, so you have to eat a

461
00:27:26,200 --> 00:27:28,600
Speaker 1: ton of them to get good energy. Well, the sloss

462
00:27:28,640 --> 00:27:32,080
Speaker 1: evolved the different strategy. They just slowed their metabolism down,

463
00:27:32,320 --> 00:27:34,280
Speaker 1: so they can be small, but they don't have to

464
00:27:34,280 --> 00:27:36,879
Speaker 1: eat that many leaves. And in fact, they can go

465
00:27:37,680 --> 00:27:42,120
Speaker 1: for days without eating. And because they digest so slowly,

466
00:27:42,400 --> 00:27:45,359
Speaker 1: they only poop about once a week. But to to

467
00:27:45,600 --> 00:27:50,600
Speaker 1: the central cog of this whole adaptation is having a

468
00:27:50,640 --> 00:27:54,720
Speaker 1: big stomach that can very slowly digest every possible nutrient

469
00:27:54,840 --> 00:27:58,399
Speaker 1: out of the food that they eat. Yeah, so they do.

470
00:27:58,520 --> 00:28:02,240
Speaker 1: They defecate and urinate once a week. Um, generally in

471
00:28:02,280 --> 00:28:04,320
Speaker 1: the same spot kind of at the base of the tree.

472
00:28:04,359 --> 00:28:06,920
Speaker 1: I don't think they like to wander too far because

473
00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:09,920
Speaker 1: when they're on the ground they are um much more

474
00:28:09,960 --> 00:28:13,480
Speaker 1: at risk than when they're up in their tree. Um. Yeah,

475
00:28:13,520 --> 00:28:15,800
Speaker 1: because they're super slow and they're you know, they're at

476
00:28:15,880 --> 00:28:19,200
Speaker 1: risk for attack for you know, whatever, any any sort

477
00:28:19,240 --> 00:28:22,240
Speaker 1: of larger mammal could come by and have a sloth

478
00:28:22,440 --> 00:28:25,680
Speaker 1: lunch at any time, right, right, In particular, the harpy

479
00:28:25,800 --> 00:28:28,520
Speaker 1: eagle is like their main predator. But also, yeah, they're

480
00:28:28,600 --> 00:28:34,560
Speaker 1: they're definitely vulnerable to acelots and jaguars and um, virtually

481
00:28:34,600 --> 00:28:37,879
Speaker 1: any other predator in the jungle because they move so

482
00:28:38,000 --> 00:28:41,400
Speaker 1: slowly and they have such an inability to defend themselves.

483
00:28:41,800 --> 00:28:45,640
Speaker 1: But what they've what that Some researchers think that the

484
00:28:45,840 --> 00:28:50,640
Speaker 1: reason sloths evolved to move so slowly is because it's

485
00:28:50,640 --> 00:28:53,960
Speaker 1: a defense mechanism for them that rather than um like

486
00:28:54,000 --> 00:28:56,880
Speaker 1: the howler monkeys that they share the jungle with. You know,

487
00:28:56,880 --> 00:29:00,320
Speaker 1: when something comes along um and and gets the howler

488
00:29:00,400 --> 00:29:03,080
Speaker 1: monkeys agitated, the howler monkeys scream and run around and

489
00:29:03,120 --> 00:29:07,160
Speaker 1: try to escape. Sloths, right, the sloths, who may be

490
00:29:07,320 --> 00:29:10,280
Speaker 1: in the same tree as a howler monkey, um just

491
00:29:10,480 --> 00:29:14,400
Speaker 1: stays motionless and silent, and so they camouflage in with

492
00:29:14,480 --> 00:29:17,880
Speaker 1: the tree. So that really slow movement is actually a

493
00:29:18,560 --> 00:29:21,720
Speaker 1: defensive adaptation as well. Yeah, I think the sloths uh

494
00:29:22,160 --> 00:29:26,200
Speaker 1: defensive motto is nothing to see here. You're just like,

495
00:29:26,520 --> 00:29:29,200
Speaker 1: we're just gonna be really still. Let these monkeys take

496
00:29:29,200 --> 00:29:31,760
Speaker 1: all the attention and no one will notice this, and

497
00:29:31,800 --> 00:29:34,960
Speaker 1: that's kind of the idea. Yeah, that's exactly the idea,

498
00:29:34,960 --> 00:29:37,400
Speaker 1: and it works, It actually does work, and it's it's

499
00:29:37,440 --> 00:29:40,200
Speaker 1: a it's misleading, I think to say, which means I

500
00:29:40,200 --> 00:29:45,040
Speaker 1: accidentally misleat everybody that's that slows have no um recourse

501
00:29:45,080 --> 00:29:47,520
Speaker 1: if they are found out. I saw at least one

502
00:29:47,640 --> 00:29:51,680
Speaker 1: video where a harpie eagle found a sloth in a

503
00:29:51,720 --> 00:29:54,440
Speaker 1: tree and lands right next to it, and the sloth

504
00:29:54,640 --> 00:29:57,040
Speaker 1: just slowly like lifts its arm up and kind of

505
00:29:57,160 --> 00:30:00,920
Speaker 1: swats behind it with its claw. Man the herpie eagle

506
00:30:01,240 --> 00:30:04,760
Speaker 1: and the heartpie eagle look kind of puzzled, but it worked,

507
00:30:05,040 --> 00:30:08,400
Speaker 1: like the herpy eagle left it alone. So yeah, they

508
00:30:08,840 --> 00:30:13,960
Speaker 1: can ward off danger, just not that frequently actually. Yeah.

509
00:30:14,080 --> 00:30:16,320
Speaker 1: And you know they despite the fact that they moved

510
00:30:16,360 --> 00:30:19,040
Speaker 1: super slow, they uh, and they are lazy. They don't

511
00:30:19,040 --> 00:30:22,680
Speaker 1: actually sleep as much as you would think. Um, in captivity,

512
00:30:22,760 --> 00:30:24,800
Speaker 1: they will sleep a lot longer because they have, you know,

513
00:30:24,880 --> 00:30:28,240
Speaker 1: no predators around, no jaguars, and they understand that and

514
00:30:28,240 --> 00:30:30,720
Speaker 1: they're like, all right, everything's cool. I can really dig

515
00:30:30,760 --> 00:30:34,520
Speaker 1: in and sleep some. But out in the wild they sleep, um,

516
00:30:34,560 --> 00:30:37,160
Speaker 1: you know a little under ten hours, which is I

517
00:30:37,200 --> 00:30:39,000
Speaker 1: guess if you would have asked me beforehand, I would

518
00:30:39,040 --> 00:30:42,560
Speaker 1: I would have guessed, you know, fifteen and up first sloth.

519
00:30:42,760 --> 00:30:46,320
Speaker 1: For sloth sleep well, they will. In captivity they sleep

520
00:30:46,360 --> 00:30:49,040
Speaker 1: as much as fifteen to twenty hours a day, but

521
00:30:49,120 --> 00:30:51,240
Speaker 1: in the wild they think. Like you said, you know,

522
00:30:51,320 --> 00:30:54,000
Speaker 1: they got to be on point. And they're not stinky either,

523
00:30:54,040 --> 00:30:56,440
Speaker 1: which is another great thing, even though you definitely don't

524
00:30:56,440 --> 00:30:59,280
Speaker 1: want to slot as a pet um for reasons we'll

525
00:30:59,280 --> 00:31:02,840
Speaker 1: talk about later. They don't smell. They smell um. They

526
00:31:02,880 --> 00:31:05,280
Speaker 1: smell kind of like the trees they live in, which

527
00:31:05,320 --> 00:31:08,200
Speaker 1: is kind of great and another defense mechanism. Yeah. So

528
00:31:08,320 --> 00:31:11,280
Speaker 1: the reason that they smell like the trees that they

529
00:31:11,320 --> 00:31:15,480
Speaker 1: live in is because sloths move so slowly that algae

530
00:31:15,560 --> 00:31:18,640
Speaker 1: grows on them and their coats in their fur, which

531
00:31:18,720 --> 00:31:22,080
Speaker 1: other sort of amazing part. Like I had no idea. No,

532
00:31:22,200 --> 00:31:24,240
Speaker 1: I didn't either, and I don't think researchers had much

533
00:31:24,240 --> 00:31:26,479
Speaker 1: of an idea about this until recently. They knew that

534
00:31:26,600 --> 00:31:31,000
Speaker 1: sloths got covered with with green algae, especially during the

535
00:31:31,080 --> 00:31:33,120
Speaker 1: rainy season. Normally they have like a tan or a

536
00:31:33,160 --> 00:31:37,120
Speaker 1: brown colored coat, but when it gets rainy in the

537
00:31:37,160 --> 00:31:41,080
Speaker 1: tropical rainforest they live in. Uh, an algae like growth

538
00:31:41,080 --> 00:31:43,520
Speaker 1: will build up on their coat, which I mean, you

539
00:31:43,600 --> 00:31:45,520
Speaker 1: try to grow some algae on you, you can't do it.

540
00:31:45,920 --> 00:31:47,920
Speaker 1: Even if you didn't take a shower, you you move

541
00:31:47,960 --> 00:31:50,080
Speaker 1: around too much, You couldn't get any algae to grow

542
00:31:50,120 --> 00:31:53,440
Speaker 1: on you. Sloths can. And at first they thought, ha ha,

543
00:31:53,560 --> 00:31:56,480
Speaker 1: that's that's hilarious. You had another funny fact about how

544
00:31:56,920 --> 00:32:01,360
Speaker 1: slow sloths are. But as they've um, as they've researched

545
00:32:01,400 --> 00:32:04,760
Speaker 1: more deeply into it, they found that actually the sloth

546
00:32:04,920 --> 00:32:09,800
Speaker 1: coat is an amazing ecosystem in itself on the sloth,

547
00:32:10,280 --> 00:32:13,640
Speaker 1: and that whether it's it's it's intentional or not, the

548
00:32:13,680 --> 00:32:18,520
Speaker 1: sloth actually kind of cultivates a farm inside of its

549
00:32:18,520 --> 00:32:22,320
Speaker 1: own coat that it uses to help feed itself to. Yeah. So,

550
00:32:22,520 --> 00:32:24,920
Speaker 1: I mean I had seen pictures of these green tinted

551
00:32:24,960 --> 00:32:28,720
Speaker 1: sloths and always kind of wonder what the deal was. Um,

552
00:32:28,760 --> 00:32:31,920
Speaker 1: it helps act as camouflage, which is super helpful. And

553
00:32:32,040 --> 00:32:33,640
Speaker 1: I don't know, did you mention the groove in the

554
00:32:33,680 --> 00:32:37,239
Speaker 1: center of the hairs, no, Yeah, So each hair has

555
00:32:37,280 --> 00:32:39,080
Speaker 1: a little groove down the center and that's where the

556
00:32:39,120 --> 00:32:42,440
Speaker 1: algae is allowed to grow and obviously because they're not

557
00:32:42,480 --> 00:32:44,480
Speaker 1: moving fast, you're gonna get you know, more of a

558
00:32:44,560 --> 00:32:47,239
Speaker 1: chance to grow too. But like you said, they are

559
00:32:47,280 --> 00:32:50,680
Speaker 1: a little ecosystem into themselves in that fur. Uh. They

560
00:32:50,720 --> 00:32:53,920
Speaker 1: did one study that found nine hundred and eighty beatles

561
00:32:54,600 --> 00:32:58,000
Speaker 1: living on a single sloth just taking roosts in there

562
00:32:58,040 --> 00:33:01,479
Speaker 1: and their little jungle coats. Uh. And then there's this

563
00:33:01,560 --> 00:33:05,680
Speaker 1: moth species. This is crazy um, the sloth moth, which

564
00:33:05,720 --> 00:33:12,200
Speaker 1: is another great band name by the way, cryptosis. Uh,

565
00:33:12,320 --> 00:33:16,920
Speaker 1: calepi colo epi color epi. Always say just the e

566
00:33:17,280 --> 00:33:23,920
Speaker 1: it's always ohe I think you're right, yeah, color epi coloiepi,

567
00:33:24,000 --> 00:33:28,200
Speaker 1: colo eppie, something like that, tomato tomato, cryptosis colo weepie

568
00:33:28,360 --> 00:33:35,400
Speaker 1: dyer uh. And they they actually colonize exclusively in sloth fur. Right,

569
00:33:35,440 --> 00:33:37,760
Speaker 1: that's the only place you will find that type of

570
00:33:37,800 --> 00:33:40,600
Speaker 1: moth is living in the fur of a sloth. It's

571
00:33:40,680 --> 00:33:45,040
Speaker 1: the sloth moth. Yeah, like totally symbiotic relationship. Uh. You know,

572
00:33:45,080 --> 00:33:47,560
Speaker 1: they climbed down the once a week to poop and

573
00:33:47,680 --> 00:33:51,960
Speaker 1: they they these moths lay their eggs in that poop. Um.

574
00:33:52,120 --> 00:33:56,080
Speaker 1: And yes, they can actually lay their eggs in dingle berries,

575
00:33:56,560 --> 00:33:59,840
Speaker 1: sloth berries. Everyone knows what that is, right, do we

576
00:33:59,880 --> 00:34:02,800
Speaker 1: need to explain that. I don't know. I would say

577
00:34:02,880 --> 00:34:07,760
Speaker 1: look it up. Okay, I think that's as far as

578
00:34:07,840 --> 00:34:11,160
Speaker 1: we need to say. So the adult moths emerge from

579
00:34:11,160 --> 00:34:16,400
Speaker 1: this poop, uh, and that they then say mama, and

580
00:34:16,440 --> 00:34:20,719
Speaker 1: they fly up and take rest in the slots fur, right,

581
00:34:20,760 --> 00:34:24,680
Speaker 1: and then they mate and reproduce, and then they lay

582
00:34:24,719 --> 00:34:27,680
Speaker 1: eggs in the sloth poop and the circle of life continues.

583
00:34:28,000 --> 00:34:32,320
Speaker 1: But again, this type of moth you won't find anywhere

584
00:34:32,360 --> 00:34:34,680
Speaker 1: on Earth except in the fur of a sloth. And

585
00:34:34,719 --> 00:34:37,560
Speaker 1: then there's also beatles in there. And so as these

586
00:34:37,600 --> 00:34:41,360
Speaker 1: things like grow and die and decay and other plant

587
00:34:41,440 --> 00:34:44,719
Speaker 1: matter and whatever is floating around in the air in

588
00:34:44,760 --> 00:34:47,560
Speaker 1: the rainforest all kind of combined and get stuck into

589
00:34:47,600 --> 00:34:51,000
Speaker 1: these grooves and the hair of the sloth fur, it

590
00:34:51,080 --> 00:34:54,640
Speaker 1: forms this algae. And they know that there is um

591
00:34:54,760 --> 00:34:58,360
Speaker 1: a relationship between the sloth moth and the algae in

592
00:34:58,480 --> 00:35:01,400
Speaker 1: that the sloughs that have the most moths also have

593
00:35:01,440 --> 00:35:04,000
Speaker 1: the most algae. And they figured out it's just basically

594
00:35:04,040 --> 00:35:07,359
Speaker 1: this decaying matter and they're like, okay, this is too weird.

595
00:35:07,440 --> 00:35:11,840
Speaker 1: Camouflage that kind of makes sense. But the fact that

596
00:35:11,880 --> 00:35:15,040
Speaker 1: there's a moth that only lives in in the sloth fur,

597
00:35:15,400 --> 00:35:17,759
Speaker 1: and the more more of those moths are, the more

598
00:35:17,760 --> 00:35:22,360
Speaker 1: algae there's it's just too weird, and um, they tested

599
00:35:22,360 --> 00:35:25,480
Speaker 1: this algae and they found that it's rich in fats,

600
00:35:25,680 --> 00:35:28,239
Speaker 1: and for a very long time they're like, Okay, the

601
00:35:28,320 --> 00:35:32,960
Speaker 1: metabolism kind of explains how a sloth could sustain itself.

602
00:35:33,239 --> 00:35:36,480
Speaker 1: It's just it burns so little energy that it it

603
00:35:36,480 --> 00:35:40,920
Speaker 1: it can live on very very nutrient sparse leaves. But

604
00:35:41,040 --> 00:35:43,720
Speaker 1: it's still kind of a mystery. It doesn't fully make sense.

605
00:35:43,880 --> 00:35:46,319
Speaker 1: And they think they figured out that the sloth as

606
00:35:46,360 --> 00:35:51,759
Speaker 1: it's grooming itself eats this algae which is high in fats,

607
00:35:51,840 --> 00:35:55,160
Speaker 1: and that that supplements its diet of leaves, and that

608
00:35:55,160 --> 00:35:58,000
Speaker 1: that's really the combination of these leaves and this algae

609
00:35:58,200 --> 00:36:02,200
Speaker 1: are what keeps the sloth live over its lifetime. And

610
00:36:02,239 --> 00:36:07,680
Speaker 1: in the meantime there urine and their feces are fertilizing

611
00:36:07,719 --> 00:36:11,160
Speaker 1: the tree that is their habitat, right where these moths

612
00:36:11,160 --> 00:36:13,359
Speaker 1: are also laying their eggs. So it's just like this

613
00:36:14,000 --> 00:36:20,400
Speaker 1: really unique symbiosis going on between plant, animal, and insect. Yeah,

614
00:36:20,440 --> 00:36:23,439
Speaker 1: and everyone seems to be doing great. Yeah, And one

615
00:36:23,440 --> 00:36:25,120
Speaker 1: of the thing I was like, well, you know, how

616
00:36:25,160 --> 00:36:27,400
Speaker 1: much does that really help? The sloth is pooping at

617
00:36:27,440 --> 00:36:29,160
Speaker 1: the base of the tree once a week. Does that

618
00:36:29,239 --> 00:36:32,319
Speaker 1: really help? And apparently it really does. And it's not

619
00:36:32,400 --> 00:36:34,880
Speaker 1: one of those It is slow, really, so you just

620
00:36:35,000 --> 00:36:38,520
Speaker 1: nailed it. So sloths are so slow their poop actually

621
00:36:38,560 --> 00:36:42,359
Speaker 1: slows down the decomposition in the tree because in the rainforest,

622
00:36:42,400 --> 00:36:47,799
Speaker 1: decomposition happens so fast that the tree as actually nutrient depleted.

623
00:36:47,880 --> 00:36:51,799
Speaker 1: Because the decomp happens so fast, sloth poop slows the

624
00:36:51,840 --> 00:36:55,680
Speaker 1: whole process down and actually nurtures the tree even more. Yeah,

625
00:36:55,680 --> 00:36:58,320
Speaker 1: it seems like everywhere the sloth goes, everyone just chills

626
00:36:58,360 --> 00:37:03,000
Speaker 1: out it. Basically, the sloth dingleberries are just little rainbows

627
00:37:03,040 --> 00:37:06,480
Speaker 1: trailing out of its behind. That's what sloths have. You

628
00:37:06,520 --> 00:37:08,760
Speaker 1: have to look closely, but you'll see it. It sounds

629
00:37:08,800 --> 00:37:12,239
Speaker 1: like a story my daughter would make up. So you

630
00:37:12,280 --> 00:37:16,280
Speaker 1: do share a birthday, hey, which is coming up actually

631
00:37:16,320 --> 00:37:18,959
Speaker 1: probably right around the time this is released. So oh yeah,

632
00:37:19,120 --> 00:37:22,800
Speaker 1: well birthday day Ruby. All right, we'll take a break

633
00:37:22,960 --> 00:37:25,520
Speaker 1: and we'll come back and talk about sloth sex right

634
00:37:25,560 --> 00:37:52,880
Speaker 1: after this. All right, Chuck, you promised it. You have

635
00:37:53,000 --> 00:37:57,960
Speaker 1: to deliver sloth sex blow by blow. So here's the deal.

636
00:37:58,040 --> 00:37:59,799
Speaker 1: This is where things like if you're like, all right,

637
00:37:59,880 --> 00:38:02,160
Speaker 1: the sloth is the cutest thing, and this is all adorable,

638
00:38:02,200 --> 00:38:04,680
Speaker 1: and they're just amazing, they are all those things. But

639
00:38:04,760 --> 00:38:07,080
Speaker 1: this is when you might I just want to prepare

640
00:38:07,080 --> 00:38:11,000
Speaker 1: everyone to be slightly disappointed, maybe a little bit with

641
00:38:11,200 --> 00:38:16,280
Speaker 1: the next couple of segments, because first of all, sloths,

642
00:38:17,520 --> 00:38:19,520
Speaker 1: you want to just think they sit around and just

643
00:38:19,600 --> 00:38:21,879
Speaker 1: hug in love on each other all the time. They're

644
00:38:21,880 --> 00:38:25,719
Speaker 1: solitary creatures. They don't want to be around even other sloths. No,

645
00:38:25,960 --> 00:38:29,000
Speaker 1: but but this is something that you can have to

646
00:38:29,360 --> 00:38:32,160
Speaker 1: kind of pick yourself back up after that devastating blow

647
00:38:32,920 --> 00:38:37,400
Speaker 1: in in a square kilometer of rainforest, there might be

648
00:38:37,440 --> 00:38:42,040
Speaker 1: something like seven hundred sloths even though there, yes, they're

649
00:38:42,080 --> 00:38:46,759
Speaker 1: they're very dense neighborhoods of basically shut in weirdos. Imagine

650
00:38:46,800 --> 00:38:51,160
Speaker 1: that that's a sloth community. The most devastating thing is

651
00:38:51,200 --> 00:38:53,080
Speaker 1: coming up later. I know you know what I'm talking about.

652
00:38:53,480 --> 00:38:57,759
Speaker 1: Oh yes, boy. But the males, like let's say, to

653
00:38:58,200 --> 00:39:01,160
Speaker 1: sloths did find themselves in the same tree, they might

654
00:39:01,200 --> 00:39:04,120
Speaker 1: get into a little fight but more than likely they'll just,

655
00:39:04,360 --> 00:39:06,000
Speaker 1: you know, one of them will leave and they'll go

656
00:39:06,040 --> 00:39:08,319
Speaker 1: find their own tree and it might be a tree

657
00:39:08,440 --> 00:39:10,920
Speaker 1: ten or fifteen feet away, it sounds like, but it's

658
00:39:10,920 --> 00:39:14,239
Speaker 1: their own. Um. They look for new trees. Also, when

659
00:39:14,239 --> 00:39:17,520
Speaker 1: they're searching for a female partner, the males do and

660
00:39:18,000 --> 00:39:21,520
Speaker 1: they mate very quickly. It's um. It lasts just a

661
00:39:21,560 --> 00:39:24,799
Speaker 1: few seconds and then the males leave the female. They

662
00:39:24,840 --> 00:39:27,920
Speaker 1: don't have anything to do with the babies, which I

663
00:39:27,960 --> 00:39:30,080
Speaker 1: looked up and I was like, surely they have some

664
00:39:30,239 --> 00:39:33,320
Speaker 1: cute name like sloth babies, but they're just called sloth babies,

665
00:39:33,520 --> 00:39:37,400
Speaker 1: which is cute. Yeah, that's pretty cute. Not bad. So

666
00:39:37,560 --> 00:39:39,760
Speaker 1: you know, you know, we were talking about fertilizing trees

667
00:39:39,800 --> 00:39:41,919
Speaker 1: and everything. When they come down and poop once a week,

668
00:39:42,160 --> 00:39:44,239
Speaker 1: I know where this is headed. So that was a

669
00:39:44,280 --> 00:39:46,400
Speaker 1: big That was a big mystery, Like why would you

670
00:39:46,840 --> 00:39:49,279
Speaker 1: if you're a sloth, coming down from a tree to

671
00:39:49,360 --> 00:39:52,399
Speaker 1: poop uses up about eight percent of your energy. That's

672
00:39:52,440 --> 00:39:54,960
Speaker 1: a lot, and it doesn't make any sense because it

673
00:39:55,040 --> 00:39:59,879
Speaker 1: leaves you vulnerable to predation. Some researchers say, we gotta

674
00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:03,640
Speaker 1: figured out they're leaving scent markers on the tree to

675
00:40:03,840 --> 00:40:08,080
Speaker 1: signal to other sloths come on over here. Um, I'm

676
00:40:08,120 --> 00:40:11,600
Speaker 1: I'm open to to whatever freaky stuff you want to try.

677
00:40:11,680 --> 00:40:16,360
Speaker 1: Sloth friend, Yeah, anal secretions, so he, like a male sloth,

678
00:40:16,400 --> 00:40:18,520
Speaker 1: will literally just say I'm just gonna rub my ans

679
00:40:18,560 --> 00:40:21,800
Speaker 1: here and I'll meet you back there at eleven o'clock

680
00:40:22,400 --> 00:40:25,759
Speaker 1: at least a little rainbow trail. I guess. So the

681
00:40:25,800 --> 00:40:28,319
Speaker 1: female can also and and I heard these. Uh. I

682
00:40:28,360 --> 00:40:30,799
Speaker 1: looked up some videos on the female mate mating call

683
00:40:30,880 --> 00:40:32,759
Speaker 1: or whatever, because they can also put out the call

684
00:40:32,840 --> 00:40:36,000
Speaker 1: that they're ready. Um. And it's described as a high

685
00:40:36,000 --> 00:40:38,480
Speaker 1: pitched scream here in this article, but it sounds sort

686
00:40:38,520 --> 00:40:40,600
Speaker 1: of bird like, like if I was in the jungle

687
00:40:40,640 --> 00:40:43,000
Speaker 1: and I heard this, I would think it was a bird. Yeah,

688
00:40:43,040 --> 00:40:49,960
Speaker 1: it's not sexy, though, it's not sexiest animal. Did you

689
00:40:50,080 --> 00:40:52,200
Speaker 1: get that reference right now? No, I didn't, but I

690
00:40:52,239 --> 00:40:57,280
Speaker 1: appreciate you saying it was a reference Beverly Hills Cop Balki,

691
00:40:57,560 --> 00:40:59,520
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, it's a little cameo on Beverly

692
00:40:59,600 --> 00:41:01,800
Speaker 1: Hills Coop. He was one of the all time greats.

693
00:41:02,120 --> 00:41:04,840
Speaker 1: I never watched that TV show. I know you didn't.

694
00:41:04,840 --> 00:41:07,239
Speaker 1: And Chuck, you're missing out. Remember I keep going back

695
00:41:07,280 --> 00:41:09,919
Speaker 1: to that piano moving episode, and it was just one

696
00:41:09,920 --> 00:41:15,160
Speaker 1: of the greatest of physical comedy ever really. But yeah, also,

697
00:41:15,280 --> 00:41:18,239
Speaker 1: and it wasn't just Bouky, like, Balki and cousin Larry

698
00:41:18,400 --> 00:41:23,360
Speaker 1: were really well cast. They're perfect foils. Seeing cousin Larry

699
00:41:23,719 --> 00:41:27,120
Speaker 1: get like his last bit of patients just break and

700
00:41:27,160 --> 00:41:30,640
Speaker 1: his eyes get really big because Balki did something, it

701
00:41:30,680 --> 00:41:33,440
Speaker 1: was a beautiful thing to behold. Cousin Larry. Was he

702
00:41:33,480 --> 00:41:35,759
Speaker 1: the other guy, the main guy? Yeah, I see it.

703
00:41:35,880 --> 00:41:39,799
Speaker 1: I see a DVD box it in your future. Were

704
00:41:39,840 --> 00:41:44,720
Speaker 1: they actually cousins in the show? Yes? Not in real life.

705
00:41:45,480 --> 00:41:46,839
Speaker 1: I mean I don't know the set up at all.

706
00:41:47,000 --> 00:41:49,280
Speaker 1: Is it that he has this wacky cousin from another

707
00:41:49,320 --> 00:41:52,520
Speaker 1: land that all of a sudden shows up on his doorstep. Yeah,

708
00:41:52,560 --> 00:41:55,480
Speaker 1: Balky Bartacamas from I can't remember. They say it a

709
00:41:55,480 --> 00:41:59,600
Speaker 1: bunch of times, but his he's like a central southern,

710
00:41:59,680 --> 00:42:04,319
Speaker 1: central European type guy, like from the Balkans or something

711
00:42:04,360 --> 00:42:07,240
Speaker 1: like Latvia or something. And he comes over to America

712
00:42:07,400 --> 00:42:09,320
Speaker 1: and he stays with his cousin Larry. I have to

713
00:42:09,400 --> 00:42:11,000
Speaker 1: check it out. It's funny. All the all the great

714
00:42:11,000 --> 00:42:13,040
Speaker 1: TV out that's mounting on a list. I'm like, I'll

715
00:42:13,080 --> 00:42:16,759
Speaker 1: have to check out perfect strangers, right right exactly, it's

716
00:42:16,800 --> 00:42:20,680
Speaker 1: on my list should be high up. So the woman

717
00:42:20,719 --> 00:42:23,640
Speaker 1: puts out the maiden call the males. Uh, there may

718
00:42:23,640 --> 00:42:27,560
Speaker 1: be competition for uh for that lady um who is

719
00:42:27,560 --> 00:42:30,680
Speaker 1: in need. And if they do fight, they will fight

720
00:42:30,760 --> 00:42:35,080
Speaker 1: upside down and uh, like you said, it's um a

721
00:42:35,120 --> 00:42:38,920
Speaker 1: slow fight, is I guess pretty cute as it turns out, right, yeah,

722
00:42:38,960 --> 00:42:41,560
Speaker 1: it is cute. So yeah, the males will fight to

723
00:42:41,600 --> 00:42:44,719
Speaker 1: the to the hurt bruised ego, and then one of

724
00:42:44,760 --> 00:42:48,319
Speaker 1: them will leaven the mail that remains will say, okay,

725
00:42:48,360 --> 00:42:51,080
Speaker 1: give me a kiss, baby, and then they'll have um.

726
00:42:51,120 --> 00:42:54,680
Speaker 1: They'll do it like a few times. Uh, but it's

727
00:42:54,719 --> 00:42:58,160
Speaker 1: really fast. Apparently I didn't I have enough pride, did

728
00:42:58,200 --> 00:43:02,600
Speaker 1: not look up sloth sex. But um, from what I read,

729
00:43:02,680 --> 00:43:05,240
Speaker 1: it happens very quickly. And then that's that and like

730
00:43:05,239 --> 00:43:07,759
Speaker 1: like you said earlier, the male just kind of moves

731
00:43:07,760 --> 00:43:10,799
Speaker 1: along like good luck with our children, and then the

732
00:43:10,880 --> 00:43:14,920
Speaker 1: sloth um ges station period depends on whether it's a

733
00:43:14,920 --> 00:43:17,920
Speaker 1: two toad or a three toad sloth, but it's somewhere

734
00:43:17,960 --> 00:43:20,960
Speaker 1: between six and eleven months and then a sloth mom

735
00:43:21,000 --> 00:43:23,879
Speaker 1: will give birth to one sloth baby at the time.

736
00:43:24,040 --> 00:43:28,640
Speaker 1: No letters, nope, just one cute little baby. So here's

737
00:43:28,640 --> 00:43:31,680
Speaker 1: where it gets devastating. Um. They do nurse their young

738
00:43:31,719 --> 00:43:34,040
Speaker 1: for a little while, but again, that takes a lot

739
00:43:34,080 --> 00:43:36,719
Speaker 1: of energy to nurse a little baby, so they only

740
00:43:36,760 --> 00:43:39,759
Speaker 1: do that, um for a couple of weeks before they

741
00:43:39,800 --> 00:43:43,320
Speaker 1: wean that baby onto solid food. The mommy is passing

742
00:43:43,360 --> 00:43:46,440
Speaker 1: along all the information that the baby needs to know

743
00:43:46,560 --> 00:43:49,759
Speaker 1: about what food is and how to how to hang

744
00:43:49,840 --> 00:43:53,080
Speaker 1: and live in trees. And they do cling to their moms,

745
00:43:53,080 --> 00:43:57,000
Speaker 1: which is super cute, for about six to eleven months. Um,

746
00:43:57,080 --> 00:44:01,319
Speaker 1: and then they are off on their own. Although they

747
00:44:01,360 --> 00:44:03,680
Speaker 1: do this is sort of cute. They do share arrange

748
00:44:03,680 --> 00:44:07,440
Speaker 1: with mom and apparently we'll stay within uh calling distance

749
00:44:07,480 --> 00:44:10,480
Speaker 1: of one another. M And this is all great, and

750
00:44:10,520 --> 00:44:13,239
Speaker 1: I know I'm set set everyone up for heartbreak. So

751
00:44:13,360 --> 00:44:16,279
Speaker 1: here it goes. If a mommy sloth is up in

752
00:44:16,280 --> 00:44:19,560
Speaker 1: a tree and baby sloth slips and falls down to

753
00:44:19,600 --> 00:44:24,240
Speaker 1: the ground, mommy may just leave baby there. Yeah, that's

754
00:44:24,400 --> 00:44:30,080
Speaker 1: like really hard for me to accept. I know. Uh,

755
00:44:30,760 --> 00:44:34,399
Speaker 1: because a baby sloth is cute. Adult sloths are cute enough,

756
00:44:34,480 --> 00:44:37,560
Speaker 1: but a baby sloth is just like I bleach right,

757
00:44:37,719 --> 00:44:40,759
Speaker 1: so to to the idea of it just being like

758
00:44:41,160 --> 00:44:45,120
Speaker 1: down there on their own. It was a great three

759
00:44:45,160 --> 00:44:48,160
Speaker 1: months we had together, but I'm not going to put

760
00:44:48,200 --> 00:44:51,400
Speaker 1: myself in the at risk of being a vulnerable vulnerable

761
00:44:51,440 --> 00:44:54,839
Speaker 1: to to some sort of a deal, right. Yeah, that's

762
00:44:54,840 --> 00:44:56,680
Speaker 1: what they think is that the baby is just not

763
00:44:56,840 --> 00:44:59,160
Speaker 1: worth it to the sloth, which is really said. I

764
00:44:59,160 --> 00:45:02,680
Speaker 1: would understand that if there were sloth litters and one

765
00:45:02,719 --> 00:45:05,360
Speaker 1: of them fell off, or that they didn't bond, but

766
00:45:05,440 --> 00:45:09,200
Speaker 1: they clearly do bond during the piggyback phase of the

767
00:45:09,239 --> 00:45:12,440
Speaker 1: baby's development. Yea, So it's they think that it's just

768
00:45:12,480 --> 00:45:14,600
Speaker 1: like it's just too much of a risk for the

769
00:45:14,640 --> 00:45:17,959
Speaker 1: sloth and the law says better you than me. Kids. Yeah,

770
00:45:18,040 --> 00:45:21,400
Speaker 1: this this disturbed me because I was the same as you.

771
00:45:21,480 --> 00:45:24,040
Speaker 1: I was like, if there was a litter, I get it,

772
00:45:24,920 --> 00:45:28,200
Speaker 1: or if they like they're highly successful, so you would

773
00:45:28,239 --> 00:45:31,640
Speaker 1: think that you know, after a nine you know, up

774
00:45:31,640 --> 00:45:34,000
Speaker 1: to a year of gestation period, or if they pump

775
00:45:34,040 --> 00:45:35,719
Speaker 1: babies out like every month or so, it wouldn't be

776
00:45:35,760 --> 00:45:38,160
Speaker 1: a big deal. But I don't know. It just seemed

777
00:45:38,200 --> 00:45:41,760
Speaker 1: like it was worth that eight percent energy and maybe

778
00:45:41,760 --> 00:45:46,680
Speaker 1: a risk of panther uh feed being panther feed, right,

779
00:45:46,760 --> 00:45:49,760
Speaker 1: So I mean, I guess it would if that happened,

780
00:45:49,760 --> 00:45:53,359
Speaker 1: that the baby falling happened to coincide with the mom

781
00:45:53,480 --> 00:45:56,120
Speaker 1: having to poop at the base of the tree, maybe

782
00:45:56,120 --> 00:45:58,960
Speaker 1: the baby has a chance. Then I'm gonna save you

783
00:45:59,000 --> 00:46:04,360
Speaker 1: because I got to take a right oh man, um,

784
00:46:04,440 --> 00:46:06,680
Speaker 1: So let's just go right past that, because that is

785
00:46:06,719 --> 00:46:09,080
Speaker 1: still super sad for me to think about. They do

786
00:46:09,160 --> 00:46:12,200
Speaker 1: live for about uh twenty years in the wild, which

787
00:46:12,239 --> 00:46:15,080
Speaker 1: is pretty good for her mammal, especially when that's slow

788
00:46:15,120 --> 00:46:19,239
Speaker 1: and that you know, seemingly defenseless. Yeah, that's the three toad. Yeah,

789
00:46:19,239 --> 00:46:22,719
Speaker 1: the three toad. The two toads live about twelve in captivity,

790
00:46:22,719 --> 00:46:26,320
Speaker 1: though they can live thirty and forty years. Uh, including

791
00:46:26,320 --> 00:46:29,920
Speaker 1: our old friend Missy at the Adelaide Zoo in Australia,

792
00:46:29,960 --> 00:46:31,719
Speaker 1: who just died a couple of years ago at the

793
00:46:31,719 --> 00:46:34,720
Speaker 1: old age of forty three. For from what I understand,

794
00:46:34,760 --> 00:46:39,960
Speaker 1: she's the oldest um known sloth to to live. She

795
00:46:40,000 --> 00:46:42,359
Speaker 1: looked at the fact that she did. She looked great

796
00:46:42,400 --> 00:46:45,200
Speaker 1: up to the end, like Phillis diller Um and the

797
00:46:45,640 --> 00:46:51,400
Speaker 1: fact that uh that sloths lifespans double or triple in

798
00:46:51,520 --> 00:46:55,360
Speaker 1: captivity really kind of says a lot about just how

799
00:46:55,400 --> 00:46:59,120
Speaker 1: how much, how how frequently they fall victim to predators

800
00:46:59,560 --> 00:47:02,560
Speaker 1: like that, to what kills sloths is, it's not fighting

801
00:47:02,560 --> 00:47:05,080
Speaker 1: with other slaws, it's not falling from trees. They can

802
00:47:05,080 --> 00:47:08,640
Speaker 1: withstand that, it's being eaten by a predator. That's how

803
00:47:08,680 --> 00:47:10,759
Speaker 1: slaws typically die. So when you take them out of

804
00:47:10,800 --> 00:47:14,120
Speaker 1: that situation, they tend to live very long. But like

805
00:47:14,160 --> 00:47:16,680
Speaker 1: we were saying at the top of this episode, they're

806
00:47:16,719 --> 00:47:21,000
Speaker 1: not necessarily happy. They get very stressed out when humans

807
00:47:21,040 --> 00:47:25,040
Speaker 1: handle them, and they can actually die from stress. Um.

808
00:47:25,200 --> 00:47:28,080
Speaker 1: They look happy, but they would much rather be at

809
00:47:28,080 --> 00:47:31,680
Speaker 1: their home. In Central and South America really really really

810
00:47:31,719 --> 00:47:35,719
Speaker 1: really difficult to keep alive because remember, especially with the

811
00:47:35,880 --> 00:47:39,640
Speaker 1: three toad sloth, they're real picky eaters, and they learn

812
00:47:39,680 --> 00:47:43,960
Speaker 1: from their mothers what constitutes food, and so whatever tree

813
00:47:44,400 --> 00:47:47,919
Speaker 1: that their mom's been living in basically that specific tree

814
00:47:48,280 --> 00:47:52,640
Speaker 1: growing in a rainforest in in South America, that is

815
00:47:52,680 --> 00:47:56,040
Speaker 1: what constitutes food to the sloth, not anything else you

816
00:47:56,080 --> 00:47:58,920
Speaker 1: could possibly come up with, and so they'll still starve

817
00:47:59,000 --> 00:48:02,480
Speaker 1: in captivity pretty easily. Actually, especially if they're kept in

818
00:48:02,520 --> 00:48:06,040
Speaker 1: captivity outside of Central or South America. Yeah, so if

819
00:48:06,080 --> 00:48:11,440
Speaker 1: they do. Let's say you're a wildlife management professional and

820
00:48:11,520 --> 00:48:14,320
Speaker 1: you come upon a little baby sloth that has been dropped,

821
00:48:14,800 --> 00:48:17,759
Speaker 1: they will rescue that sloth if they can and try

822
00:48:17,760 --> 00:48:20,600
Speaker 1: and rehabilitate it, but the goal is to get it

823
00:48:20,600 --> 00:48:23,560
Speaker 1: back into the wild as soon as possible, not like,

824
00:48:23,640 --> 00:48:25,239
Speaker 1: oh it's so cute, we're gonna keep it around for

825
00:48:25,280 --> 00:48:28,319
Speaker 1: a little while. I mean, there are clearly some in captivity,

826
00:48:28,320 --> 00:48:30,560
Speaker 1: but it's not like a common zoo animal that you

827
00:48:30,560 --> 00:48:33,640
Speaker 1: will see. Right. There was one other thing that was

828
00:48:33,680 --> 00:48:36,560
Speaker 1: kind of a quirk of their metabolism. So their mammals,

829
00:48:36,560 --> 00:48:40,720
Speaker 1: which means they're warm blooded, but they're actually not really

830
00:48:40,760 --> 00:48:44,000
Speaker 1: warm blooded because they produce so little energy and heat

831
00:48:44,400 --> 00:48:47,640
Speaker 1: through their metabolism. They actually use the same kinds of

832
00:48:47,680 --> 00:48:50,960
Speaker 1: strategies that like snakes and lizards do, where they use

833
00:48:51,040 --> 00:48:55,080
Speaker 1: the sun to adjust their body temperature, which means that

834
00:48:55,239 --> 00:48:58,600
Speaker 1: if it gets too hot, they can overheat and die.

835
00:48:59,080 --> 00:49:01,440
Speaker 1: If it gets too well, they can very easily freeze

836
00:49:01,440 --> 00:49:04,759
Speaker 1: to death because their body temperature changes with the ambient temperature.

837
00:49:05,160 --> 00:49:08,080
Speaker 1: So that, combined with the fact that their food comes

838
00:49:08,120 --> 00:49:12,160
Speaker 1: from a single tree in Central America. Um. That makes

839
00:49:12,160 --> 00:49:15,520
Speaker 1: them really difficult to keep alive in captivity, which is why,

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Speaker 1: like you're saying, they want to rehabilitate them back into

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Speaker 1: the wild. That's the goal of it. Yeah. And while

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Speaker 1: they are doing pretty well out there as far as

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Speaker 1: their um status goes, they are of course threatened in

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Speaker 1: the sense that any animal in South America and the

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Speaker 1: rainforest is threatened because of deforestation. Uh. It's just you know,

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Speaker 1: the sad fact all animals, even if they're doing well,

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Speaker 1: are going to be threatened if you're hacking through and

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Speaker 1: and leveling their habitat, like is what is going on

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Speaker 1: pretty much. Yeah, that's I mean, that's the biggest threat

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Speaker 1: is deforestation. Although for the pygmy sloth that lives on

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Speaker 1: nowhere else be because their their habitat is so limited

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Speaker 1: that any deforestation that happens there is put them in

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Speaker 1: grave danger. Um. But it's basically cutting down the forest

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Speaker 1: and then building roads through the forest because sloths will

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Speaker 1: go from tree to tree on the ground sometimes, which

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Speaker 1: means that when they encounter a road, it's hard to

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Speaker 1: get from one tree to the other aside from on

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Speaker 1: the ground. So a sloth crossing the road is probably

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Speaker 1: not a good gamble for the sloth. But the more

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Speaker 1: roads we build through the rainforest, the more sloths to

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Speaker 1: get hit by cars, which is about the saddest thing

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Speaker 1: you could hit by a car with a car. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: And here's uh, you know you always hear about um

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Speaker 1: like a movie medicine man, like the cure for cancer

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Speaker 1: maybe in this one leaf in the middle of a

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Speaker 1: forest somewhere in a jungle. They may not have the

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Speaker 1: key to cancer in a sloth, But the Smithsonian Tropical

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Speaker 1: Research Institute did collect fungi samples, you know, the algae

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Speaker 1: that grows in their fur. Uh. And this is of

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Speaker 1: the three toed sloth. And they own that some of

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Speaker 1: these samples from the sloth coat helped fight against malaria

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Speaker 1: or the parasite that causes malaria and um chagas disease,

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Speaker 1: which I know we've talked about. It's another tropical parasitic disease,

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Speaker 1: stop your heart mersa cholera, salmonella. Uh. And they were

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Speaker 1: also active against human breast cancer cells. So pretty amazing, yeah,

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Speaker 1: which I mean, like that's the stuff that they found

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Speaker 1: in the algae growing on sloth fur, which, Yeah, that

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Speaker 1: is astounding. It's awesome. So we're all gonna be chewing

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Speaker 1: on sloths in the future. Well, yeah, don't say that.

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Speaker 1: They'll be alive. You don't have to kill him or anything.

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Speaker 1: Gently suck on their fur. Okay, okay, Um you got

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Speaker 1: anything else? I got nothing? Well, if you want to

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Speaker 1: know more about sloths, there's a whole internet out there

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Speaker 1: about them, although we did a pretty good job covering

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Speaker 1: at Chuck if I do say so ourselves. Um, well,

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Speaker 1: since I said Internet, that means it's time for listener man,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna call this politics on your show. Hey, guys,

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Speaker 1: love the show. I've been listening for several years now,

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Speaker 1: and I've learned lots of good stuff. And you've also

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Speaker 1: introduced me to the end of the World with Josh

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Speaker 1: Clark and movie crush. Yeah how about that? All right?

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Speaker 1: Will goes deep? Uh And he says this recently, I

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Speaker 1: was looking through reviews and comments on the show on

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Speaker 1: Apple Podcasts. I saw a number of people making critical

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Speaker 1: comments about how you share your opinions on religion and

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Speaker 1: politics too often. Um, I am a politically conservative and

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Speaker 1: religious guy. And I want to encourage you to keep

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Speaker 1: sharing your opinions. I live in a smallish Midwestern town

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Speaker 1: and a red state where I grew up and spent

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Speaker 1: most of my life. Most of the people in my

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Speaker 1: orbit either go to church with me and my family

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Speaker 1: or hold similar conservative views. Your opinions serve as an

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Speaker 1: important function of bringing some alternate alternative perspectives that sometimes

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Speaker 1: challenge my opinions and encourage me to reevaluate certain positions

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Speaker 1: and views. Please keep interjecting your views, guys. Too many

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Speaker 1: of us automatically dismiss any opinions, and unfortunately people who's

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Speaker 1: views contrast with their own. UM. I used to work

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Speaker 1: for an administrator. He would frequently say, if we're all

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Speaker 1: thinking the same thing, then some of us aren't thinking

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Speaker 1: that sounds like something. That's a really great that's a

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Speaker 1: great solational poster. That's good. That's that's the first album's

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Speaker 1: title for Mouth Farts debut. Keep up, boy, keep up

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Speaker 1: the great work, and keep offering your views along with

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Speaker 1: your well research and fascinating topics, well seasoned with witty

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Speaker 1: humor and hilarious banter. Regards will Well, that was a great,

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Speaker 1: very nice, very kind email, like Will saw something probably said.

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Speaker 1: These guys probably know about this, and I want to

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Speaker 1: make sure that they know it's cool. So thanks Will

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Speaker 1: as much appreciated. Um, if you like to join in

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Speaker 1: with Will's course, we love that. I would also be

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Speaker 1: interested to hear other people who want to write in

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Speaker 1: and explain why we shouldn't share our politics or views,

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Speaker 1: because I'm I'm very curious to hear the other side

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Speaker 1: as well. It makes me a centrist. Fairness dot com right,

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