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Speaker 1: Y s K Selects, I've chosen our classic episode on sloths.

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Speaker 1: Everybody knows that sloths spring the absolute best out of humans,

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Speaker 1: and I suspect I'm working on a theory here that

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Speaker 1: you posted in the meantime. Enjoy this wonderful episode on sloths.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of I

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Speaker 1: Heart Radio. Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh Clark.

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Speaker 1: There's Charles W. Chuck Bryant, there's guest producer Josh t

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Speaker 1: over there. They can about the number twenty three, just

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Speaker 1: also look look at this guy. He is so good, Chuck.

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Speaker 1: He knows to just sit there and keep quiet even

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Speaker 1: number twenty three. Uh if I had just pulled out

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Speaker 1: some random show from like our archive from years ago?

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Speaker 1: Could you see who the producer was? Oh? I don't know,

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Speaker 1: Let's let's give it a try. Um geez, Now I

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Speaker 1: only I can think of his animals elephants, Jerry that

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Speaker 1: the top of your head? Um, no, this game turns

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Speaker 1: a baby sloth, right, which is good. That's what you

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Speaker 1: want to do with either Matt Frederick or a baby sloth.

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Speaker 1: You don't want to keep them in captivity because sloths

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Speaker 1: don't do very well in captivity. Matt does okay in captivity,

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Speaker 1: what Matt Frederick could do it captivity. Uh. Yeah, and

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Speaker 1: you were watching just before we recorded. Everyone should know

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Speaker 1: Josh was watching the twenty eight million view YouTube video

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Speaker 1: this TPS report to me. Uh. Two toed slaws are omnivorous,

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Speaker 1: slow that they don't even have gas that builds up

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00:25:12,400 --> 00:25:15,560
Speaker 1: in their system. Uh. That is how slow they they

421
00:25:15,760 --> 00:25:18,680
Speaker 1: are digesting their food, so the gas just gets reabsorbed

422
00:25:19,400 --> 00:25:22,200
Speaker 1: through the intestines and into the bloodstream. Uh. And it

423
00:25:22,240 --> 00:25:26,160
Speaker 1: says here that they're the gases then, uh, respired out

424
00:25:26,160 --> 00:25:28,560
Speaker 1: of the lungs. Does that mean that they mouth for

425
00:25:28,640 --> 00:25:32,560
Speaker 1: it or does it? Yeah? I mean that's what I saw,

426
00:25:32,640 --> 00:25:35,560
Speaker 1: is that they have Yeah, they basically pass those same

427
00:25:35,600 --> 00:25:38,919
Speaker 1: gases that they normally would out of their their fannie

428
00:25:38,960 --> 00:25:43,200
Speaker 1: in the American sense um the out of their mouth

429
00:25:43,240 --> 00:25:46,760
Speaker 1: through breathing. Interesting. So, yeah, I guess the mouth fart

430
00:25:47,320 --> 00:25:51,960
Speaker 1: worst band name ever. Worse than Diarrhea Planet. I think

431
00:25:52,000 --> 00:25:55,760
Speaker 1: you're right, man, fits better than no, it's actually worse

432
00:25:55,840 --> 00:26:01,320
Speaker 1: than frozen poop Knife. They should do a joint tour. Yeah. Yeah,

433
00:26:01,520 --> 00:26:03,240
Speaker 1: you know that mouth fart is going to be the

434
00:26:03,280 --> 00:26:06,040
Speaker 1: opener always. They're never going to make it to the headline.

435
00:26:06,600 --> 00:26:09,880
Speaker 1: Are never headline, you know, And I say boys because

436
00:26:09,920 --> 00:26:11,520
Speaker 1: there's no way a girl band would be called mouth

437
00:26:11,520 --> 00:26:16,080
Speaker 1: fart there. So uh. They also have a multi chambered

438
00:26:16,119 --> 00:26:19,440
Speaker 1: stomach sort of like a cow um, which is really

439
00:26:19,480 --> 00:26:23,399
Speaker 1: interesting because that's like a third of their body weight

440
00:26:23,520 --> 00:26:27,440
Speaker 1: if their stomachs are full. Yeah yeah, and I mean,

441
00:26:27,560 --> 00:26:30,000
Speaker 1: like the reason why it's just so so much of

442
00:26:30,040 --> 00:26:32,880
Speaker 1: their body ways because they digest foods so slowly. They

443
00:26:32,960 --> 00:26:36,200
Speaker 1: have to have this multi chambered stomach to get as

444
00:26:36,200 --> 00:26:39,119
Speaker 1: many nutrients as they possibly can out of it. And

445
00:26:39,160 --> 00:26:43,399
Speaker 1: even still, like, it's a really terrible evolutionary strategy to

446
00:26:43,520 --> 00:26:49,880
Speaker 1: evolve as a a strictly um is it or bore

447
00:26:49,880 --> 00:26:55,120
Speaker 1: of us as strictly tree dwelling herbivore, Like that's that's

448
00:26:55,119 --> 00:26:58,359
Speaker 1: a really bad strategy because you have to be small

449
00:26:58,480 --> 00:27:01,879
Speaker 1: enough to exist in the tree, right, um, But at

450
00:27:01,880 --> 00:27:03,320
Speaker 1: the same time, you have to be big enough to

451
00:27:03,359 --> 00:27:07,920
Speaker 1: eat tons of leaves every day. Well, the if not,

452
00:27:08,040 --> 00:27:10,080
Speaker 1: you're because the leaves don't give you they're not very

453
00:27:10,200 --> 00:27:11,919
Speaker 1: energy den so you have to eat a ton of

454
00:27:11,960 --> 00:27:14,560
Speaker 1: them to get good energy. Well, the slows evolved the

455
00:27:14,560 --> 00:27:18,080
Speaker 1: different strategy, they just slowed their metabolism down, so they

456
00:27:18,080 --> 00:27:20,119
Speaker 1: can be small, but they don't have to eat that

457
00:27:20,160 --> 00:27:23,680
Speaker 1: many leaves and in fact, they can go for days

458
00:27:23,760 --> 00:27:28,320
Speaker 1: without eating. And because they digest so slowly, they only

459
00:27:28,400 --> 00:27:31,760
Speaker 1: poop about once a week. But to to the central

460
00:27:32,440 --> 00:27:36,800
Speaker 1: cog of this whole adaptation is having a big stomach

461
00:27:37,160 --> 00:27:41,200
Speaker 1: that can very slowly digest every possible nutrient out of

462
00:27:41,280 --> 00:27:44,120
Speaker 1: the food that they eat. Yeah, so they do. They

463
00:27:44,160 --> 00:27:47,840
Speaker 1: defecate and urinate once a week. Um, generally in the

464
00:27:47,880 --> 00:27:49,800
Speaker 1: same spot, kind of at the base of the tree.

465
00:27:49,840 --> 00:27:52,359
Speaker 1: I don't think they like to wander too far because

466
00:27:52,480 --> 00:27:55,400
Speaker 1: when they're on the ground they are um much more

467
00:27:55,440 --> 00:27:58,920
Speaker 1: at risk than when they're up in their tree. Um. Yeah,

468
00:27:58,960 --> 00:28:01,280
Speaker 1: because they're super slow and they're you know, they're at

469
00:28:01,320 --> 00:28:04,680
Speaker 1: risk for attack for you know whatever. Any any sort

470
00:28:04,680 --> 00:28:07,720
Speaker 1: of larger mammal could come by and have a sloth

471
00:28:07,920 --> 00:28:11,240
Speaker 1: lunch at any time, right right, In particular, the harpie

472
00:28:11,240 --> 00:28:14,000
Speaker 1: eagle is like their main predator. But also, yeah, they're

473
00:28:14,080 --> 00:28:20,040
Speaker 1: they're definitely vulnerable to acelots and jaguars and um virtually

474
00:28:20,080 --> 00:28:23,320
Speaker 1: any other predator in the jungle because they move so

475
00:28:23,440 --> 00:28:26,879
Speaker 1: slowly and they have such an inability to defend themselves.

476
00:28:27,280 --> 00:28:30,960
Speaker 1: But what they've what that was. Some researchers think that

477
00:28:31,040 --> 00:28:35,880
Speaker 1: the reason sloths evolved to move so slowly is because

478
00:28:35,920 --> 00:28:39,240
Speaker 1: it's a defense mechanism for them that rather than um

479
00:28:39,280 --> 00:28:41,760
Speaker 1: like the howler monkeys that they share the jungle with.

480
00:28:42,120 --> 00:28:45,400
Speaker 1: You know, when something comes along um and and gets

481
00:28:45,440 --> 00:28:48,040
Speaker 1: the howler monkeys agitated, the holler monkeys scream and run

482
00:28:48,080 --> 00:28:52,440
Speaker 1: around and try to escape. Right. The sloths, who may

483
00:28:52,600 --> 00:28:55,400
Speaker 1: be in the same tree as a howler monkey, um,

484
00:28:55,600 --> 00:28:59,680
Speaker 1: just stays motionless and silent, and so they camouflage in

485
00:28:59,760 --> 00:29:03,520
Speaker 1: with tree. So that really slow movement is actually a

486
00:29:04,000 --> 00:29:07,200
Speaker 1: defensive adaptation as well. Yeah, I think the sloths uh

487
00:29:07,640 --> 00:29:11,640
Speaker 1: defensive motto is nothing to see here. You're just like,

488
00:29:12,000 --> 00:29:14,680
Speaker 1: we're just gonna be really still. Let these monkeys take

489
00:29:14,680 --> 00:29:17,239
Speaker 1: all the attention and no one will notice this. And

490
00:29:17,240 --> 00:29:20,440
Speaker 1: that's kind of the idea. Yeah, that's exactly the idea,

491
00:29:20,440 --> 00:29:22,880
Speaker 1: and it works. It actually does work, and it's it's

492
00:29:22,880 --> 00:29:25,640
Speaker 1: a it's misleading I think to say, which means I

493
00:29:25,680 --> 00:29:30,480
Speaker 1: accidentally misleat everybody that's that slows have no um recourse

494
00:29:30,520 --> 00:29:33,000
Speaker 1: if they are found out. I saw at least one

495
00:29:33,080 --> 00:29:37,120
Speaker 1: video where a harpy eagle found a sloth in a

496
00:29:37,200 --> 00:29:39,920
Speaker 1: tree and lands right next to it, and the sloth

497
00:29:40,080 --> 00:29:42,520
Speaker 1: just slowly like lifts its arm up and kind of

498
00:29:42,600 --> 00:29:46,400
Speaker 1: swats behind it with its claw man at the harpy eagle,

499
00:29:46,720 --> 00:29:50,200
Speaker 1: and the hearty eagle look kind of puzzled, but it worked,

500
00:29:50,480 --> 00:29:53,840
Speaker 1: like the harpy eagle left it alone. So yeah, they

501
00:29:54,280 --> 00:29:59,440
Speaker 1: can ward off danger, just not that frequently. Actually, yeah,

502
00:29:59,560 --> 00:30:02,480
Speaker 1: and know they despite the fact that they move super slow,

503
00:30:02,560 --> 00:30:05,200
Speaker 1: they and they are lazy. They don't actually sleep as

504
00:30:05,240 --> 00:30:08,480
Speaker 1: much as you would think. Um. In captivity they will

505
00:30:08,520 --> 00:30:10,400
Speaker 1: sleep a lot longer because they have, you know, no

506
00:30:10,480 --> 00:30:13,960
Speaker 1: predators around, no jaguars, and they understand that and they're like,

507
00:30:14,000 --> 00:30:16,440
Speaker 1: all right, everything's cool. I can really dig in and

508
00:30:16,480 --> 00:30:19,960
Speaker 1: sleep some. But out in the wild they sleep, um,

509
00:30:20,000 --> 00:30:22,640
Speaker 1: you know, a little under ten hours, which is I

510
00:30:22,640 --> 00:30:24,480
Speaker 1: guess if you would have asked me beforehand, I would

511
00:30:24,480 --> 00:30:27,680
Speaker 1: I would have guessed, you know, fifteen and up first

512
00:30:27,680 --> 00:30:31,479
Speaker 1: sloth for sloth sleep well, they will in captivity they

513
00:30:31,520 --> 00:30:34,360
Speaker 1: sleep as much as fifteen to twenty hours a day.

514
00:30:34,400 --> 00:30:36,720
Speaker 1: But in the wild they think, like you said, you know,

515
00:30:36,800 --> 00:30:39,480
Speaker 1: they got to be on point. And they're not stinky either.

516
00:30:39,520 --> 00:30:41,880
Speaker 1: Which is another great thing, even though you definitely don't

517
00:30:41,880 --> 00:30:44,760
Speaker 1: want to slot as a pet um for reasons we'll

518
00:30:44,760 --> 00:30:48,320
Speaker 1: talk about later. They don't smell, they smell um. They

519
00:30:48,320 --> 00:30:50,760
Speaker 1: smell kind of like the trees they live in, which

520
00:30:50,800 --> 00:30:53,640
Speaker 1: is kind of great and another defense mechanism. Yeah. So

521
00:30:53,800 --> 00:30:56,760
Speaker 1: the reason that they smell like the trees that they

522
00:30:56,760 --> 00:31:00,880
Speaker 1: live in is because sloths move so slowly that algae

523
00:31:01,000 --> 00:31:03,880
Speaker 1: grows on them and their coats in their fur. This

524
00:31:03,960 --> 00:31:06,400
Speaker 1: with the other sort of amazing part, like I had

525
00:31:06,440 --> 00:31:08,760
Speaker 1: no idea. No, I didn't either, and I don't think

526
00:31:08,760 --> 00:31:11,320
Speaker 1: researchers had much of an idea about this until recently.

527
00:31:11,360 --> 00:31:15,360
Speaker 1: They knew that sloth's got covered with with green algae,

528
00:31:15,680 --> 00:31:18,080
Speaker 1: especially during the rainy season. Normally they have like a

529
00:31:18,080 --> 00:31:21,080
Speaker 1: tan or a brown colored coat, but when it gets

530
00:31:21,160 --> 00:31:25,160
Speaker 1: rainy in the tropical rainforest they live in, uh, an

531
00:31:25,200 --> 00:31:28,600
Speaker 1: algae like growth will build up on their coat, which

532
00:31:28,640 --> 00:31:30,360
Speaker 1: I mean, you try to grow some algae on you,

533
00:31:30,360 --> 00:31:32,680
Speaker 1: you can't do it. Even if you didn't take a shower,

534
00:31:32,800 --> 00:31:35,200
Speaker 1: you move around too much. You couldn't get any algae

535
00:31:35,240 --> 00:31:38,640
Speaker 1: to grow on you. Sloths can. And at first they thought,

536
00:31:38,640 --> 00:31:41,360
Speaker 1: ha ha, that's that's hilarious. You had another funny fact

537
00:31:41,400 --> 00:31:45,920
Speaker 1: about how slow sloths are. But as they've um, as

538
00:31:45,920 --> 00:31:49,560
Speaker 1: they've researched more deeply into it, they found that actually

539
00:31:49,600 --> 00:31:54,600
Speaker 1: the sloth coat is an amazing ecosystem in itself on

540
00:31:54,760 --> 00:31:58,840
Speaker 1: the sloth, and that whether it's it's it's intentional or not,

541
00:31:59,040 --> 00:32:03,800
Speaker 1: the sloth actually kind of cultivates a farm inside of

542
00:32:03,840 --> 00:32:07,800
Speaker 1: its own cult that it uses to help feed itself to. Yeah. So,

543
00:32:08,000 --> 00:32:10,400
Speaker 1: I mean I had seen pictures of these green tinted

544
00:32:10,440 --> 00:32:14,200
Speaker 1: sloths and always kind of wonder what the deal was. Um,

545
00:32:14,240 --> 00:32:17,360
Speaker 1: it helps act as camouflage, which is super helpful. And

546
00:32:17,520 --> 00:32:19,120
Speaker 1: I don't know, did you mentioned the groove in the

547
00:32:19,120 --> 00:32:22,800
Speaker 1: center of the hairs. Yeah, so each hair has a

548
00:32:22,800 --> 00:32:25,040
Speaker 1: little groove down the center and that's where the algae

549
00:32:25,480 --> 00:32:28,520
Speaker 1: is allowed to grow. And obviously because they're not moving fast,

550
00:32:28,560 --> 00:32:30,320
Speaker 1: you're gonna get you know, more of a chance to

551
00:32:30,360 --> 00:32:33,040
Speaker 1: grow too. But like you said, they are a little

552
00:32:33,080 --> 00:32:36,520
Speaker 1: ecosystem into themselves in that fur. Uh. They did one

553
00:32:36,520 --> 00:32:40,480
Speaker 1: study that found nine hundred and eighty beatles living on

554
00:32:40,520 --> 00:32:43,760
Speaker 1: a single sloth, just taking roosts in there and their

555
00:32:43,840 --> 00:32:47,840
Speaker 1: little jungle coats. Uh. And then there's this moth species.

556
00:32:47,920 --> 00:32:51,560
Speaker 1: This is crazy. Um. The sloth moth, which is another

557
00:32:51,600 --> 00:33:00,000
Speaker 1: great band name by the way, cryptosis, uh, caleppi, coloe

558
00:33:00,080 --> 00:33:03,400
Speaker 1: be color weepie. Always say just the e. It's always

559
00:33:04,080 --> 00:33:09,440
Speaker 1: o E. I think you're right, yeah, color Weepi, colo weepie,

560
00:33:09,480 --> 00:33:15,240
Speaker 1: colo eppie, something like that. Amato tomato, Cryptosis colaiepie dyer Uh.

561
00:33:15,240 --> 00:33:20,840
Speaker 1: And they they actually colonize exclusively in sloth fur. Right.

562
00:33:20,880 --> 00:33:23,239
Speaker 1: That's the only place you will find that type of

563
00:33:23,280 --> 00:33:26,080
Speaker 1: moth is living in the fur of a sloth. It's

564
00:33:26,160 --> 00:33:30,400
Speaker 1: the sloth moth. Yeah, like totally symbiotic relationship. Uh. You

565
00:33:30,440 --> 00:33:32,360
Speaker 1: know they climbed down the once a week to poop

566
00:33:32,920 --> 00:33:37,480
Speaker 1: and they they these moths lay their eggs in that poop. Um.

567
00:33:37,600 --> 00:33:41,120
Speaker 1: And yes, they can actually lay their eggs in dingle

568
00:33:41,120 --> 00:33:45,200
Speaker 1: berries sloth berries. Everyone knows what that is, right, do

569
00:33:45,240 --> 00:33:48,040
Speaker 1: we need to explain that? I don't know. I would

570
00:33:48,040 --> 00:33:53,000
Speaker 1: say look it up. Okay, I think that's as far

571
00:33:53,080 --> 00:33:56,400
Speaker 1: as we need to say. So the adult moths emerge

572
00:33:56,440 --> 00:34:01,840
Speaker 1: from this poop uh, and they to say mama, and

573
00:34:01,920 --> 00:34:06,200
Speaker 1: they fly up and take rest in the slots fur right,

574
00:34:06,240 --> 00:34:10,160
Speaker 1: and then they mate and reproduce and then they lay

575
00:34:10,200 --> 00:34:13,120
Speaker 1: eggs in the sloth poop and the circle of life continues.

576
00:34:13,440 --> 00:34:17,799
Speaker 1: But again, this type of moth you won't find anywhere

577
00:34:17,800 --> 00:34:20,160
Speaker 1: on earth except in the fur of a sloth. And

578
00:34:20,160 --> 00:34:23,040
Speaker 1: then there's also beetles in there. And so as these

579
00:34:23,040 --> 00:34:26,800
Speaker 1: things like grow and die and decay and other plant

580
00:34:26,880 --> 00:34:30,200
Speaker 1: matter and whatever is floating around in the air in

581
00:34:30,239 --> 00:34:33,040
Speaker 1: the rainforest all kind of combined and get stuck into

582
00:34:33,040 --> 00:34:36,480
Speaker 1: these grooves and the hair of the sloth fur it

583
00:34:36,520 --> 00:34:40,319
Speaker 1: forms this algae. And they know that there is a

584
00:34:40,400 --> 00:34:44,160
Speaker 1: relationship between the sloth moth and the algae in that

585
00:34:44,320 --> 00:34:47,000
Speaker 1: the slots that have the most moths also have the

586
00:34:47,040 --> 00:34:49,600
Speaker 1: most algae. And they figured out it's just basically this

587
00:34:49,719 --> 00:34:52,839
Speaker 1: decaying matter and they're like, Okay, this is too weird.

588
00:34:52,880 --> 00:34:57,319
Speaker 1: Camouflage that kind of makes sense, but the fact that

589
00:34:57,360 --> 00:35:00,480
Speaker 1: there's a moth that only lives in in the loth fir,

590
00:35:00,880 --> 00:35:03,080
Speaker 1: and the more more of those moths there are, the

591
00:35:03,120 --> 00:35:06,640
Speaker 1: more algae there is, it's just too weird. And um.

592
00:35:06,680 --> 00:35:09,839
Speaker 1: They tested this algae and they found that it's rich

593
00:35:09,880 --> 00:35:13,600
Speaker 1: in fats, and for a very long time they're like, Okay,

594
00:35:13,640 --> 00:35:18,440
Speaker 1: the metabolism kind of explains how a sloth could sustain itself.

595
00:35:18,719 --> 00:35:21,520
Speaker 1: It's just it burns so little energy that it it

596
00:35:21,960 --> 00:35:26,400
Speaker 1: It can live on very, very nutrient sparse leaves. But

597
00:35:26,520 --> 00:35:29,200
Speaker 1: it's still kind of a mystery. It doesn't fully make sense.

598
00:35:29,360 --> 00:35:31,799
Speaker 1: And they think they figured out that the sloth as

599
00:35:31,840 --> 00:35:37,239
Speaker 1: it's grooming itself eats this algae which is high in fats,

600
00:35:37,320 --> 00:35:40,600
Speaker 1: and that that supplements its diet of leaves, and that

601
00:35:40,600 --> 00:35:43,560
Speaker 1: that's really the combination of these leaves and this algae

602
00:35:43,680 --> 00:35:47,680
Speaker 1: are what keeps the sloth alive over its lifetime. And

603
00:35:47,719 --> 00:35:53,160
Speaker 1: in the meantime there urine and their feces are fertilizing

604
00:35:53,200 --> 00:35:56,640
Speaker 1: the tree that is their habitat, right where these moths

605
00:35:56,640 --> 00:35:58,839
Speaker 1: are also laying their eggs. So it's just like this

606
00:35:59,440 --> 00:36:05,840
Speaker 1: really you nique symbiosis going on between plant, animal, and insect. Yeah,

607
00:36:05,880 --> 00:36:08,839
Speaker 1: and everyone seems to be doing great. Yeah. And one

608
00:36:08,920 --> 00:36:10,560
Speaker 1: of the thing I was like, well, you know, how

609
00:36:10,640 --> 00:36:12,880
Speaker 1: much does that really help the sloth is pooping at

610
00:36:12,880 --> 00:36:14,640
Speaker 1: the base of the tree once a week. Does that

611
00:36:14,680 --> 00:36:17,799
Speaker 1: really help? And apparently it really does, and it's not

612
00:36:17,880 --> 00:36:20,360
Speaker 1: one of those It is slow, really, so you just

613
00:36:20,440 --> 00:36:24,000
Speaker 1: nailed it. So slows are so slow their poop actually

614
00:36:24,040 --> 00:36:27,759
Speaker 1: slows down the decomposition in the tree because in the rainforest,

615
00:36:27,880 --> 00:36:32,520
Speaker 1: decomposition happens so fast that the tree as actually nutrient

616
00:36:32,640 --> 00:36:36,640
Speaker 1: depleted because the de comp happened so fast, sloth poop

617
00:36:36,719 --> 00:36:40,160
Speaker 1: slows the whole process down and actually nurtures the tree

618
00:36:40,200 --> 00:36:42,840
Speaker 1: even more. Yeah, it seems like everywhere the sloth goes,

619
00:36:42,880 --> 00:36:47,480
Speaker 1: everyone just chills out it. Basically, the sloth dingleberries are

620
00:36:47,520 --> 00:36:50,360
Speaker 1: just little rainbows trailing out of its behind. That's what

621
00:36:50,440 --> 00:36:53,920
Speaker 1: slows have. You have to look closely, but you'll see it.

622
00:36:53,920 --> 00:36:55,640
Speaker 1: It sounds like a story my daughter would make up.

623
00:36:56,560 --> 00:37:00,959
Speaker 1: So you do share a birthday, hey, which is coming

624
00:37:01,000 --> 00:37:03,520
Speaker 1: up actually probably right around the time this is released.

625
00:37:03,520 --> 00:37:07,440
Speaker 1: So oh yeah, well, happy birth birthday Ruby. All right,

626
00:37:07,480 --> 00:37:09,640
Speaker 1: we'll take a break and we'll come back and talk

627
00:37:09,640 --> 00:37:37,480
Speaker 1: about sloth sex right after this. All right, Tuck, you

628
00:37:37,560 --> 00:37:41,480
Speaker 1: promised it. You have to deliver sloth sex blow by blow.

629
00:37:42,400 --> 00:37:44,600
Speaker 1: So here's the deal. This is where things like if

630
00:37:44,640 --> 00:37:46,520
Speaker 1: you're like, all right, the sloth is the cutest thing,

631
00:37:46,600 --> 00:37:49,040
Speaker 1: and this is all adorable, and they're just amazing. They

632
00:37:49,040 --> 00:37:51,040
Speaker 1: are all those things. But this is when you might

633
00:37:51,600 --> 00:37:55,400
Speaker 1: I just want to prepare everyone to be slightly disappointed

634
00:37:55,440 --> 00:37:57,920
Speaker 1: maybe a little bit with the next couple of segments,

635
00:37:59,080 --> 00:38:03,879
Speaker 1: because first of all, sloths, you want to just think

636
00:38:03,880 --> 00:38:05,879
Speaker 1: they sit around and just hug in love on each

637
00:38:05,920 --> 00:38:08,960
Speaker 1: other all the time. They're solitary creatures. They don't want

638
00:38:08,960 --> 00:38:12,279
Speaker 1: to be around even other sloths. No, but but this

639
00:38:12,400 --> 00:38:15,359
Speaker 1: is something that you can have to kind of pick

640
00:38:15,400 --> 00:38:18,960
Speaker 1: yourself back up after that devastating blow in. In a

641
00:38:19,040 --> 00:38:23,840
Speaker 1: square kilometer of rainforest, there might be something like seven

642
00:38:23,920 --> 00:38:28,440
Speaker 1: hundred sloths even though there, yes, they're they're very dense

643
00:38:28,440 --> 00:38:32,759
Speaker 1: neighborhoods of basically shut in weirdos. Imagine that that's a

644
00:38:32,800 --> 00:38:37,279
Speaker 1: sloth community. The most devastating thing is coming up later.

645
00:38:37,320 --> 00:38:40,040
Speaker 1: I know you know what I'm talking about. Oh yes, boy.

646
00:38:41,080 --> 00:38:44,600
Speaker 1: But the males, like, let's say two sloths did find

647
00:38:44,600 --> 00:38:47,080
Speaker 1: themselves in the same tree, they might get into a

648
00:38:47,120 --> 00:38:50,040
Speaker 1: little fight, but more than likely they'll just, you know,

649
00:38:50,120 --> 00:38:51,879
Speaker 1: one of them will leave and they'll go find their

650
00:38:51,880 --> 00:38:54,200
Speaker 1: own tree. And it might be a tree ten or

651
00:38:54,200 --> 00:38:58,000
Speaker 1: fifteen feet away, it sounds like, but it's their own. Um.

652
00:38:58,040 --> 00:39:00,400
Speaker 1: They look for new trees. Also, when they're searching for

653
00:39:00,400 --> 00:39:04,960
Speaker 1: a female partner, the males do and they mate very quickly.

654
00:39:05,120 --> 00:39:08,719
Speaker 1: It's um. It lasts just a few seconds and then

655
00:39:08,760 --> 00:39:11,360
Speaker 1: the males leave the female. They don't have anything to

656
00:39:11,400 --> 00:39:14,080
Speaker 1: do with the babies, which I looked up and I

657
00:39:14,120 --> 00:39:17,120
Speaker 1: was like, surely they have some cute name like sloth babies,

658
00:39:17,400 --> 00:39:20,480
Speaker 1: but they're just called sloth babies, which is cute. Yeah,

659
00:39:20,560 --> 00:39:23,520
Speaker 1: that's pretty cute, not bad. So you know, you know,

660
00:39:23,560 --> 00:39:26,040
Speaker 1: we were talking about fertilizing trees and everything. When they

661
00:39:26,080 --> 00:39:28,000
Speaker 1: come down and poop once a week, I know where

662
00:39:28,040 --> 00:39:30,320
Speaker 1: this is headed. So that was a big That was

663
00:39:30,360 --> 00:39:33,080
Speaker 1: a big mystery, Like why would you if you're a sloth,

664
00:39:33,640 --> 00:39:36,040
Speaker 1: coming down from a tree to poop uses up about

665
00:39:36,080 --> 00:39:39,200
Speaker 1: eight percent of your energy. That's a lot, and it

666
00:39:39,239 --> 00:39:42,520
Speaker 1: doesn't make any sense because it leaves you vulnerable to predation.

667
00:39:43,160 --> 00:39:46,800
Speaker 1: Some researchers say, we gotta figure it out. They're leaving

668
00:39:46,920 --> 00:39:51,120
Speaker 1: scent markers on the tree to signal to other sloths

669
00:39:51,600 --> 00:39:55,080
Speaker 1: come on over here. Um, I'm I'm open to to

670
00:39:55,239 --> 00:39:58,279
Speaker 1: whatever freaky stuff you want to try. Sloth friend, Yeah,

671
00:39:58,320 --> 00:40:02,400
Speaker 1: anal secretions, so he, like a male saut, will literally

672
00:40:02,440 --> 00:40:05,120
Speaker 1: just say I'm just gonna rub my anus here and

673
00:40:05,200 --> 00:40:08,279
Speaker 1: I'll meet you back there at eleven o'clock at least

674
00:40:08,280 --> 00:40:11,799
Speaker 1: a little rainbow trail. I guess. So the female can

675
00:40:11,840 --> 00:40:14,279
Speaker 1: also and and I heard these I looked up some

676
00:40:14,400 --> 00:40:17,080
Speaker 1: videos on the female mate mating call or whatever, because

677
00:40:17,120 --> 00:40:20,200
Speaker 1: they can also put out the call that they're ready. Um.

678
00:40:20,239 --> 00:40:22,319
Speaker 1: And it's described as a high pitched scream here in

679
00:40:22,320 --> 00:40:24,680
Speaker 1: this article, but it sounds sort of bird like, like

680
00:40:24,719 --> 00:40:26,560
Speaker 1: if I was in the jungle and I heard this,

681
00:40:26,600 --> 00:40:29,560
Speaker 1: I would think it was a bird. Yeah, it's not sexy, though,

682
00:40:31,040 --> 00:40:36,920
Speaker 1: it's not sexiest animal. Did you get that reference right now? No?

683
00:40:36,960 --> 00:40:39,160
Speaker 1: I didn't, but I appreciate you saying it was a

684
00:40:39,200 --> 00:40:44,120
Speaker 1: reference Beverly Hills Cop Balki, Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, it's

685
00:40:44,160 --> 00:40:46,200
Speaker 1: a little cameo on Beverly Hills Cop. He was one

686
00:40:46,200 --> 00:40:48,879
Speaker 1: of the all time greats. I never watched that TV show.

687
00:40:49,480 --> 00:40:51,840
Speaker 1: I know you didn't, And Chuck, you're missing out. Remember

688
00:40:52,000 --> 00:40:54,560
Speaker 1: I keep going back to that piano moving episode, and

689
00:40:54,600 --> 00:41:00,640
Speaker 1: it was just one of the greatest of physical comedy ever. Really. Yeah. Also,

690
00:41:00,760 --> 00:41:03,719
Speaker 1: and it wasn't just bouky like. Balki and cousin Larry

691
00:41:03,840 --> 00:41:08,840
Speaker 1: were really well cast their perfect foils. Seeing cousin Larry

692
00:41:09,160 --> 00:41:12,600
Speaker 1: get like his last bit of patients just break and

693
00:41:12,640 --> 00:41:16,120
Speaker 1: his eyes get really big because Balki did something. It

694
00:41:16,160 --> 00:41:18,880
Speaker 1: was a beautiful thing to behold. Cousin Larry, was he

695
00:41:18,960 --> 00:41:21,239
Speaker 1: the other guy, the main guy? Yeah, I see it.

696
00:41:21,360 --> 00:41:25,279
Speaker 1: I see a DVD box it in your future. Were

697
00:41:25,280 --> 00:41:30,200
Speaker 1: they actually cousins in the show? Yes? Not in real life.

698
00:41:30,920 --> 00:41:32,279
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know the set up at all.

699
00:41:32,480 --> 00:41:34,719
Speaker 1: Is it that he has this wacky cousin from another

700
00:41:34,800 --> 00:41:37,960
Speaker 1: land that all of a sudden shows up on his doorstep. Yeah,

701
00:41:38,040 --> 00:41:40,960
Speaker 1: Balky Bartacamas from I can't remember. They say it a

702
00:41:40,960 --> 00:41:45,040
Speaker 1: bunch of times, but his he's like a central southern,

703
00:41:45,160 --> 00:41:49,800
Speaker 1: central European type guy, like from the Balkans or something

704
00:41:49,840 --> 00:41:52,719
Speaker 1: like Latvia or something. And he comes over to America

705
00:41:52,880 --> 00:41:54,799
Speaker 1: and he stays with his cousin Larry. I have to

706
00:41:54,840 --> 00:41:56,439
Speaker 1: check it out. It's funny, all the all the great

707
00:41:56,480 --> 00:41:58,480
Speaker 1: TV out that's mounting on a list. I'm like, I'll

708
00:41:58,520 --> 00:42:02,239
Speaker 1: have to check out Perfect Strangers right right exactly, it's

709
00:42:02,239 --> 00:42:06,560
Speaker 1: on my list high up. So the woman puts out

710
00:42:06,560 --> 00:42:09,880
Speaker 1: the maiden call the males. Uh. There may be competition

711
00:42:10,080 --> 00:42:13,480
Speaker 1: for uh for that lady um who is in need.

712
00:42:13,960 --> 00:42:16,879
Speaker 1: And if they do fight, they will fight upside down

713
00:42:17,640 --> 00:42:21,080
Speaker 1: and uh like you said, it's um a slow fight,

714
00:42:21,320 --> 00:42:24,400
Speaker 1: is I guess pretty cute as it turns out. Cut, Yeah,

715
00:42:24,440 --> 00:42:27,000
Speaker 1: it is cute. So yeah, the males will fight to

716
00:42:27,080 --> 00:42:30,200
Speaker 1: the to the hurt bruised ego, and then one of

717
00:42:30,200 --> 00:42:33,799
Speaker 1: them will leaven the mail that remains will say, okay,

718
00:42:33,840 --> 00:42:36,520
Speaker 1: give me a kiss, baby, and then they'll have um.

719
00:42:36,600 --> 00:42:40,840
Speaker 1: They'll do it like a few times, but it's really fast.

720
00:42:40,880 --> 00:42:44,000
Speaker 1: Apparently I didn't I have enough pride to not look

721
00:42:44,080 --> 00:42:48,160
Speaker 1: up sloth sex, but um, from what I read, it

722
00:42:48,400 --> 00:42:50,839
Speaker 1: happens very quickly. And then that's that and like like

723
00:42:50,880 --> 00:42:53,520
Speaker 1: you said earlier, the male just kind of moves along

724
00:42:53,560 --> 00:42:56,720
Speaker 1: like good luck with our children. And then the sloth

725
00:42:57,440 --> 00:43:00,600
Speaker 1: um just station period depends on whether it's a two

726
00:43:00,600 --> 00:43:03,800
Speaker 1: toad or a three toad sloth, but it's somewhere between

727
00:43:03,880 --> 00:43:06,600
Speaker 1: six and eleven months. And then a sloth mom will

728
00:43:06,640 --> 00:43:11,479
Speaker 1: give birth to one sloth baby and a time, no letters, Nope,

729
00:43:11,560 --> 00:43:16,080
Speaker 1: just one cute little baby. So here's where it gets devastating. Um,

730
00:43:16,120 --> 00:43:18,120
Speaker 1: they do nurse their young for a little while, but

731
00:43:18,280 --> 00:43:20,600
Speaker 1: again that takes a lot of energy to nurse a

732
00:43:20,600 --> 00:43:23,600
Speaker 1: little baby, so they only do that um for a

733
00:43:23,680 --> 00:43:26,920
Speaker 1: couple of weeks before they wean that baby onto solid food.

734
00:43:27,840 --> 00:43:31,000
Speaker 1: The mommy is passing along all the information that the

735
00:43:31,040 --> 00:43:34,400
Speaker 1: baby needs to know about what food is and how

736
00:43:34,480 --> 00:43:37,640
Speaker 1: to how to hang and live in trees. And they

737
00:43:37,640 --> 00:43:39,960
Speaker 1: do cling to their mom's which is super cute for

738
00:43:40,040 --> 00:43:45,080
Speaker 1: about six to eleven months, um, and then they are

739
00:43:45,120 --> 00:43:47,759
Speaker 1: off on their own. Although they do this is sort

740
00:43:47,760 --> 00:43:50,600
Speaker 1: of cute. They do share arrange with mom and apparently

741
00:43:50,640 --> 00:43:54,759
Speaker 1: we'll stay within uh calling distance of one another. And

742
00:43:54,800 --> 00:43:56,839
Speaker 1: this is all great, and I know I'm set set

743
00:43:56,880 --> 00:44:00,560
Speaker 1: everyone up for heartbreak. So here it goes. If a

744
00:44:00,640 --> 00:44:03,520
Speaker 1: mommy sloth is up in a tree and baby sloth

745
00:44:03,600 --> 00:44:07,120
Speaker 1: slips and falls down to the ground, mommy may just

746
00:44:07,280 --> 00:44:12,640
Speaker 1: leave baby there. Yeah that's like really hard for me

747
00:44:12,680 --> 00:44:17,760
Speaker 1: to accept. I know, uh, because a baby sloth is cute.

748
00:44:18,160 --> 00:44:21,200
Speaker 1: Adult sloths are cute enough, but a baby sloth is

749
00:44:21,280 --> 00:44:25,320
Speaker 1: just like I bleach, right, so to to the idea

750
00:44:25,360 --> 00:44:27,960
Speaker 1: of it just being like down there on their kid.

751
00:44:29,560 --> 00:44:31,920
Speaker 1: It was a great three months we had together, but

752
00:44:32,080 --> 00:44:34,799
Speaker 1: I'm not going to put myself in the at risk

753
00:44:34,880 --> 00:44:40,040
Speaker 1: of being a vulnerable vulnerable to to some sort of deal. Right. Yeah,

754
00:44:40,120 --> 00:44:41,960
Speaker 1: that's what they think is that the baby is just

755
00:44:42,080 --> 00:44:44,360
Speaker 1: not worth it to the sloth, which is really said.

756
00:44:44,560 --> 00:44:47,840
Speaker 1: I would understand that if there were sloth litters and

757
00:44:48,040 --> 00:44:50,520
Speaker 1: one of them fell off, or that they didn't bond,

758
00:44:50,760 --> 00:44:54,520
Speaker 1: but they clearly do bond during the piggyback phase of

759
00:44:54,560 --> 00:44:58,080
Speaker 1: the baby's development. So it's they think that it's just like,

760
00:44:58,120 --> 00:45:00,440
Speaker 1: it's just too much of a risk for this sloth

761
00:45:00,560 --> 00:45:03,440
Speaker 1: and the law says better you than me. Kids. Yeah,

762
00:45:03,520 --> 00:45:06,840
Speaker 1: this this disturbed me because I was the same as you.

763
00:45:06,920 --> 00:45:09,520
Speaker 1: I was like, if there was a litter, I get it,

764
00:45:10,400 --> 00:45:13,640
Speaker 1: or if they like they're highly successful, so you would

765
00:45:13,680 --> 00:45:17,080
Speaker 1: think that, you know, after a nine you know, up

766
00:45:17,120 --> 00:45:19,480
Speaker 1: to a year of gestation period, or if they pump

767
00:45:19,520 --> 00:45:21,200
Speaker 1: babies out like every month or so, it wouldn't be

768
00:45:21,200 --> 00:45:23,640
Speaker 1: a big deal. But I don't know. It just seemed

769
00:45:23,680 --> 00:45:27,200
Speaker 1: like it was worth that eight percent energy and maybe

770
00:45:27,239 --> 00:45:32,399
Speaker 1: a risk of panther uh feed being panther feed, right, So,

771
00:45:32,560 --> 00:45:35,279
Speaker 1: I mean, I guess it would if that happened, that

772
00:45:35,440 --> 00:45:39,200
Speaker 1: the baby falling happened to coincide with the mom having

773
00:45:39,200 --> 00:45:41,680
Speaker 1: to poop at the base of the tree, maybe the

774
00:45:41,719 --> 00:45:44,680
Speaker 1: baby has a chance. Then I'm gonna save you, because

775
00:45:44,680 --> 00:45:50,000
Speaker 1: I gotta take a dump right. Oh man, um, So

776
00:45:50,120 --> 00:45:52,520
Speaker 1: let's just go right past that because that is still

777
00:45:52,560 --> 00:45:54,839
Speaker 1: super sad for me to think about. They do live

778
00:45:54,880 --> 00:45:57,759
Speaker 1: for about uh twenty years in the wild, which is

779
00:45:57,800 --> 00:46:00,680
Speaker 1: pretty good for a mammal, especially when that slow and

780
00:46:00,719 --> 00:46:04,719
Speaker 1: that you know, seemingly defenseless. Yeah, that's the three toad Yeah,

781
00:46:04,719 --> 00:46:08,200
Speaker 1: the three toad The two toads live about twelve in captivity,

782
00:46:08,200 --> 00:46:11,800
Speaker 1: though they can live thirty and forty years, uh, including

783
00:46:11,800 --> 00:46:15,360
Speaker 1: our old friend Missy at the Adelaide Zoo in Australia,

784
00:46:15,400 --> 00:46:17,160
Speaker 1: who just died a couple of years ago at the

785
00:46:17,200 --> 00:46:20,120
Speaker 1: old age of forty three. For from what I understand,

786
00:46:20,200 --> 00:46:25,600
Speaker 1: she's the oldest um known sloth to to live. Look

787
00:46:25,680 --> 00:46:27,960
Speaker 1: at the fact that she did. She looked great aut

788
00:46:28,000 --> 00:46:31,400
Speaker 1: to the end like Phillis diller um. And the fact

789
00:46:31,440 --> 00:46:38,840
Speaker 1: that that sloths lifespans double or triple in captivity really

790
00:46:38,960 --> 00:46:41,359
Speaker 1: kind of says a lot about just how how much,

791
00:46:41,719 --> 00:46:45,479
Speaker 1: how how frequently they fall victim to predators, Like, that's

792
00:46:45,520 --> 00:46:48,800
Speaker 1: what kills sloths is it's not fighting with other slaws,

793
00:46:48,880 --> 00:46:51,879
Speaker 1: it's not falling from trees. They can withstand that it's

794
00:46:52,520 --> 00:46:55,200
Speaker 1: being eaten by a predator. That's how slaws typically die,

795
00:46:55,239 --> 00:46:57,719
Speaker 1: so when you take them out of that situation, they

796
00:46:57,760 --> 00:47:00,160
Speaker 1: tend to live very long. But like we were being

797
00:47:00,200 --> 00:47:04,040
Speaker 1: at the top of this episode, they're not necessarily happy.

798
00:47:04,120 --> 00:47:07,239
Speaker 1: They get very stressed out when humans handle them, and

799
00:47:07,280 --> 00:47:11,680
Speaker 1: they can actually die from stress. Um. They look happy,

800
00:47:11,719 --> 00:47:14,040
Speaker 1: but they would much rather be at their home in

801
00:47:14,080 --> 00:47:18,000
Speaker 1: Central and South America. Really really really really difficult to

802
00:47:18,080 --> 00:47:22,320
Speaker 1: keep alive because remember, especially with the three toad sloth,

803
00:47:22,760 --> 00:47:25,880
Speaker 1: they're real picky eaters, and they learn from their mothers

804
00:47:25,880 --> 00:47:30,600
Speaker 1: what constitutes food, and so whatever tree that their mom's

805
00:47:30,640 --> 00:47:34,279
Speaker 1: been living in, basically that specific tree growing in a

806
00:47:34,400 --> 00:47:39,400
Speaker 1: rainforest in in South America, that is what constitutes food

807
00:47:39,400 --> 00:47:42,399
Speaker 1: to the sloth, not anything else you could possibly come

808
00:47:42,480 --> 00:47:45,680
Speaker 1: up with, And so they'll still starve and captivity pretty

809
00:47:45,719 --> 00:47:49,160
Speaker 1: easily actually, especially if they're kept in captivity outside of

810
00:47:49,200 --> 00:47:52,279
Speaker 1: Central or South America. Yeah, so if they do. Let's

811
00:47:52,280 --> 00:47:58,000
Speaker 1: say you're a wildlife management professional and you come upon

812
00:47:58,040 --> 00:48:00,720
Speaker 1: a little baby sloth that has been dropped, they will

813
00:48:00,760 --> 00:48:04,200
Speaker 1: rescue that sloth if they can and try and rehabilitate it,

814
00:48:04,239 --> 00:48:06,560
Speaker 1: but the goal is to get it back into the

815
00:48:06,600 --> 00:48:09,759
Speaker 1: wild as soon as possible, not like, oh it's so cute.

816
00:48:09,800 --> 00:48:11,320
Speaker 1: We're going to keep it around for a little while.

817
00:48:11,880 --> 00:48:14,200
Speaker 1: I mean, there are clearly some in captivity, but it's

818
00:48:14,239 --> 00:48:17,279
Speaker 1: not like a common zoo animal that you will see, right.

819
00:48:17,440 --> 00:48:19,480
Speaker 1: There was one other thing that was kind of a

820
00:48:19,560 --> 00:48:22,680
Speaker 1: quirk of their metabolism. So their mammals, which means they're

821
00:48:22,719 --> 00:48:27,280
Speaker 1: warm blooded, but they're actually not really warm blooded because

822
00:48:27,320 --> 00:48:31,160
Speaker 1: they produce so little energy and heat through their metabolism.

823
00:48:31,200 --> 00:48:34,080
Speaker 1: They actually use the same kinds of strategies that like

824
00:48:34,160 --> 00:48:37,279
Speaker 1: snakes and lizards do, where they use the sun to

825
00:48:37,400 --> 00:48:41,279
Speaker 1: adjust their body temperature, which means that if it gets

826
00:48:41,320 --> 00:48:45,120
Speaker 1: too hot, they can overheat and die. If it gets

827
00:48:45,120 --> 00:48:47,439
Speaker 1: too cold, they can very easily freeze to death because

828
00:48:47,480 --> 00:48:51,279
Speaker 1: their body temperature changes with the ambient temperature. So that,

829
00:48:51,320 --> 00:48:53,920
Speaker 1: combined with the fact that their food comes from a

830
00:48:53,960 --> 00:48:58,280
Speaker 1: single tree in Central America, UM, that makes them really

831
00:48:58,320 --> 00:49:01,400
Speaker 1: difficult to keep alive and kept, which is why, like

832
00:49:01,440 --> 00:49:04,600
Speaker 1: you're saying, they want to rehabilitate them back into the wild.

833
00:49:04,640 --> 00:49:06,920
Speaker 1: That's the goal of it. Yeah, And while they are

834
00:49:06,960 --> 00:49:09,800
Speaker 1: doing pretty well out there as far as their um

835
00:49:10,080 --> 00:49:15,600
Speaker 1: status goes, they are of course threatened in the sense

836
00:49:15,680 --> 00:49:19,160
Speaker 1: that any animal in South America and the rainforest is

837
00:49:19,200 --> 00:49:23,560
Speaker 1: threatened because of deforestation. Uh, there's just you know the

838
00:49:23,640 --> 00:49:27,239
Speaker 1: sad fact all animals, even if they're doing well, are

839
00:49:27,280 --> 00:49:30,480
Speaker 1: going to be threatened if you're hacking through and and

840
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Speaker 1: leveling their habitat, like is what is going on pretty much? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: their habitat is so limited that any deforestation that happens

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Speaker 1: crossing the road is probably not a good gamble for

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Speaker 1: the sloth. But the more roads we build through the rainforest,

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Speaker 1: the more sloths to get hit by cars, which is

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Speaker 1: about the saddest thing you could hit by a car

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Speaker 1: with a car. Yeah, and here's uh, you know, you

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Speaker 1: always hear about um like a movie medicine man, like

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Speaker 1: may not have the key to cancer in a sloth.

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Speaker 1: But the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute did collect fungi samples,

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Speaker 1: you know, the algae that grows in their fur. Uh.

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Speaker 1: And this is of the three toed sloth. And they

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Speaker 1: found that some of these samples from the sloth coat

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Speaker 1: It's another tropical parasitic disease, stop your heart, mersa, cholera

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Speaker 1: sam and ela uh. And they were also active against

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Speaker 1: mean like that's the stuff that they found in the

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Speaker 1: algae growing on sloth fur, which, yeah, that is astounding.

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Speaker 1: It's awesome. So we're all gonna be chewing on spots

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Speaker 1: in the future. Well yeah, don't say that. They'll be alive.

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Speaker 1: You don't have to kill him or anything. Gently suck

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Speaker 1: on their fur. Okay, okay, um, you got anything else?

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Speaker 1: I got nothing? Well, if you want to know more

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

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Speaker 1: although we did a pretty good job covering at Chuck

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

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

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Speaker 1: gonna call this politics on your show. Hey, guys, love

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

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

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

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Speaker 1: looking through vieusing comments on the show on Apple Podcasts.

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Speaker 1: I saw a number of people making critical comments about

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Speaker 1: how you share your opinions on religion and politics too often. Um.

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Speaker 1: I am a politically conservative and religious guy, and I

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Speaker 1: want to encourage you to keep sharing your opinions. I

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Speaker 1: live in a smallish Midwestern town in a red state

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Speaker 1: where I grew up and spent most of my life.

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Speaker 1: Most of the people in my orbit either go to

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Speaker 1: church with me and my family or hold similar conservative views.

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Speaker 1: Your opinions serve as an important function of bringing some alternate,

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Speaker 1: alternative perspectives that sometimes challenge my opinions and encourage me

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Speaker 1: to reevaluate certain positions and views. Please keep interjecting your views, guys.

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Speaker 1: Too many of us automatically dismiss any opinions, and unfortunately

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Speaker 1: people who's used contrast with their own. UM. I used

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Speaker 1: we're all thinking the same thing, then some of us

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Speaker 1: aren't thinking that sounds like something. That's a really great

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

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Speaker 1: album's title for Mouth Farts debut. Keep a boy, you

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

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

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Speaker 1: witty humor and hilarious banter. Regards Will Well, that was

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Speaker 1: a great, very nice, very kind email, like Will saw

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Speaker 1: something probably said. These guys probably know about this, and

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Speaker 1: I want to make sure that they know it's cool.

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Speaker 1: So thanks Will, as much appreciated. UM, if you like

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Speaker 1: to join in with Will's course, we love that. I

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Speaker 1: politics or views, because I'm I'm very curious to hear

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