Trailer Tuesday (2): Slothville

[Video Link] "Trailer for upcoming documentary filmed at the world's only sloth orphanage in Costa Rica."

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Facts about Sloths:

Eat tonnes of leaves.
Two-thirds of body weight are leaves.
Takes a weekly poop on the ground.
Are indifferent to David Attenborough attempting to make communication.
Leaves provide no nutritional value, yet somehow still live.
Are ancient.
- robdobbs
  
  Only one breed takes weekly poops on the ground.
TheKaz1969

every time you guys post something about sloths, I tell you how much they creep me out. and yet, you continue to post stories about sloths…
- Antinous / Moderator
  
  Sloths are adorable. Pandas, on the other hand, fill me with loathing.
  - Brainspore
    
    Buncha damn leeches is what those guys are. If they’re too lazy to fuck maybe they deserve to go extinct. And remember when biologists tried to tell everybody that Pandas weren’t really bears, then changed their minds and RE-classified them as bears? Sounds pretty shady to me.
  - TheKaz1969
    
    ugh. I know they are just waiting for the day to rise up and rip our all our throats with those claws…
    - llazy8
      
      They’re not waiting – it’s just taking them a really long, long time to get here.
      
      Sloths give me the heebie jeebies, too. When I was in CR one got attacked by a dog. Imperceptibly slowly put a choke hold on the dog and got away. Cute as a gremlin-baby, too.
  - freejack t.
    
    Not red pandas, right? Red pandas are adorable.
    - Antinous / Moderator
      
      No. I love red pandas, which aren’t pandas, anyway.
      
      Pandas look like clowns. Or juggaloes.
eljefe900

Sad face. I posted this in submitterator this morning. Guess I was doing it wrong. Oh well. At least all the peoples will know of the epic cuteness of these creatures.

Other fun facts about sloths ( source, my wife via http://www.SlothSanctuary.com/ ) :

1. Have healing abilities that rival Wolverine’s mutant healing.
2. They have been documented falling up to 90 feet from a tree without injury.
3. They are light enough to evade predators by going to the ends of thin branches.
4. They move so slowly that blue-green algae grows on their hair. Bonus camo!
5. Survive by stealth like a ninja. A very slow ninja.
6. Sleeps 15 hours a day.
7. Has half the body muscle of other mammals.
- Brainspore
  
  They have been documented falling up to 90 feet from a tree without injury.
  
  That’s just because they fall so slowly.
  - robdobbs
    
    When last I was in Costa Rica, we had the unfortunate task of finding one of these guys that didn’t survive the fall. We had to tell the owners of the resort – not fun.
zuben

I for one…yaaawn…will now take a nap with our cute overlords, the sloths.
Brainspore

Sloth is such a boring sin. When are they going to make a documentary about Lustville?
http://www.mrericsir.com MrEricSir

Sloths need coffee, that’s why they move so damn slow.
Flashman

The sloth. My spirit animal.
ohbejoyful

I kept waiting for a tortoise to overtake the parking lot sloth.
GawainLavers

They’re like baby monkeys that move like zombies and have 4 inch claws! Awwww.
HenryPootel

“Sloths in Party Hats” would be a good band name. I’d buy the album. Don’t bother with the download though – slow link.
psulli

I see these creatures while laying here on my back with a pretty screen in front of my face as I try to reach the bag of potato chips without knocking over my soda all while slowly scratching my butt and I realize that this video here … this video is showing me my true peoples.
Greg P.

They sleep 15 hours, but they always party 24.
- noah django
  
  snort cocaine off america’s gravestonnnnne
huskerdont

Sloths are awesome, but I distrust the motives of anyone who would dress them in baby PJs.
- Antinous / Moderator
  
  Sloths are awesome, but I distrust the motives of anyone who would dress them in baby PJs.
  
  They’re probably cold since they’re not attached to their mothers like they should be.
- Brainspore
  
  I admit that part reminded me of the baby from “Eraserhead.”
http://profiles.google.com/carons Steven Caron

another video, from a friend/co-worker who took a trip down there and volunteered.

http://vimeo.com/27015379
- Peter Chylewski
  
  I finally found my favorite animal! They’re so cute and so much like me!
  
  Now, if I could only afford to dream away like they do and to be as slow as they are… Heavens!
Guest

I shouldn’t reading this website this morning – I’m also a sloth and am running late for work. But I still watched this video three times.
jackie31337

Did anyone else notice that the title of the documentary is “Too Cute Baby Sloths”? It’s like they tapped directly into my brain to name it. :)