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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsThe Science Group has enlightened me on how sloths poop
There isn't a thread there about this subject but I clicked on a link in a post and then clicked on another.
A sloth poops once a week and the excrement can weigh up to 1/3 of the body weight of the sloth (before going poop). The sloth also does a little dance before and after making a deposit. In human terms, a 210 pound man would dance a jig, deposit a 70 pound load in the toilet , do another dance and walk out of the bathroom weighing 140 pounds. The following week, the process would be repeated.
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Kali
(55,025 posts)Laffy Kat
(16,386 posts)My doggos think rabbit raisins are a delicacy.
Laffy Kat
(16,386 posts)The production crew happened to be filming when a sloth backed down a tree truck to about three or four feet above the ground and "went". Poor thing looked so happy afterwards. Such slow metabolisms, I guess.
KT2000
(20,588 posts)the original article said they risk their lives to poop so I wanted to know about that. It is risking their lives to descend from the tree tops and possibly become prey for other, faster animals.
Poor things, they must be uncomfortable a lot of the time.
Ron Obvious
(6,261 posts)"The sloth comes down from from the tree once a week to urinate and defecate. To the insects living below, this is known as the worst day of the week"