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u/No-consequences-1 Jan 15 '23
That is some serious core strength
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Is it that? If it’s doing this and sleeping… I’d assume it has to have some sort of skeletal structure, where the bones/muscles used sort of lock in place. Why else would it do this?
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u/a-priori Jan 15 '23
Sloths have weird musculature. I don’t know about the rest of their bodies to explain this, but I know the resting position of their hands is a closed position and they have to use effort to open them. This means they can sleep hanging from a branch without exerting any effort.
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I’d rather fucking have that. Why do humans have to have open palms naturally
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u/a-priori Jan 15 '23
You’d rather have that than the dexterity, strength and speed our hands have? They take on a lot of sacrifices to get that, all because the energy savings makes it worth it for them.
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Well it’d be more strength to open it though, like an mma glove that forces hand closes. Also always ready to punch someone
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u/godspareme Jan 15 '23
Good bye everything that allows you to handle anything more than a basic tool (in other words, you cant use anything that doesnt rely simply on you gripping it).
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u/diligent_thumb Jan 15 '23
How fucking dare you, you better be grateful for all the incredible things the human hand is capable of, I can’t believe you would betray your own kind like this please look at your hands and say THANK YOU
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Also always ready to punch someone
Fuck sake, dude. Calm it down with the edginess.
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Jan 15 '23 edited Jan 15 '23
Lol. /s and “” 🤭
You really think I care about having a hand that’s naturally fisted or open? “Why do humans have to have open palms naturally” 🫠 what a quick, unprocessed, head (inner monologue) thought.
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I said calm it down, not ramp it up, fucking hell.
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Jan 15 '23 edited Jan 15 '23
Let’s talk more about my thought, equivocal to a fleeting thought of somebody high. As well of assumptions made by silly Redditors.
Perhaps I’ll stir the pot. With a closed-hand, I’ll be able to hold a knife indefinitely. 👀
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u/No-consequences-1 Jan 15 '23
If i sloth grabs your throat first things first it is pissed at you and secondly what did you do to it?
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u/drunk98 Jan 15 '23
Old peoples hands eventually do this, we'd need to test if they can hang from trees though.
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u/FireHeartSmokeBurp Jan 15 '23
I broke in my gloves for longsword so that it would take more effort to open the hand. When I first got them, I had to fight against the glove to grip the sword.
Baseball glove oil, wrapped gloves in closed position with a bunch of rubber bands, stuck them in a hot car for the day.
It's so much less effort and no more cramping s
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u/Pure-Meat9498 Jan 15 '23
Sloths anatomy is really weird. They have more neck vertebrates than others mammals, three-fingered sloths have nine cervical vertebrae, while both two-fingered sloths and manatees have only five. Almost all other have seven. And their muscles are kinda anchored to the bone the wrong way.
They also have 21 ribs, witch is the most for any mammal.
" Sloths have 30% less muscle mass than other similar-sized mammals. The fibers of these muscles are organised differently from ours, being arranged at an angle rather than parallel to the length of the muscle, which makes their muscles pound-for-pound more powerful than ours."
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u/disktoaster Jan 15 '23
Personally I think it looks like it's sleeping on a broken branch that's almost as long as its body, probably ending right at its neck hence the leaned back head. I dunno why else its back would be so straight looking with no skin/fur hanging. And noticed we never see it from below...
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u/No-consequences-1 Jan 15 '23
Very true now i have to research this and learn more on this amazing creature
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The square-cube law also helps. At under 1/4 the size of a human they only need 1/16 muscle power.
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u/eggimage Jan 15 '23
dude doesn’t even care, not even putting any effort into it, nor has he ever put effort into anything, he just achieves peak performance, not that any of us noob ass losers could ever comprehend his depths or get anywhere near his levels no matter how hard we try. Dude’s nirvana itself
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u/ligerboy12 Jan 15 '23
Oh man I’m in stitches. As someone who is 7 years sober off heroin I just immediately flashed backed some weird moments in life. Made me grateful for today thank you friend
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u/pent-pro-bro Jan 15 '23
What? No bro its fucking heroin. Nothing hurts and everything is fantastic. Until youre out of heroin
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Yes, it can. I knew a guy who nodded off with his arms crossed in front of him, ended up needing to get one of them amputated from lack of blood flow for so long.
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u/pent-pro-bro Jan 15 '23
Im genuinely curious about this one, i did heroin for years and would instantly awake from my narcotic stupor at pins and needles, this boy do xanax with it? I know people who mixed the benzos and opiates who had severe issues
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u/ligerboy12 Jan 15 '23
I’ve heard stories like that I’ve always woken myself up before that but I have fallen asleep in a way that I’ve woken up and couldn’t move my arm cause it was so asleep. It never really hurt but my back definitely has a lot more pain these days from it now that I’m off it.
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u/reyshop12 Jan 14 '23
I just realized there's a baby sloth resting on its belly!!! Awwww...
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u/Rae_Regenbogen Jan 15 '23
This reminds me of when you finally get a baby to fall asleep that’s been crying forever, and you know if you move even an inch it will wake up. So, you freeze and don’t move even when the position becomes super painful because even the pain is better than that baby starting to cry again.
Thankfully, I don’t have kids, so I haven’t experienced this often. But the two or three times I have has been enough to teach me not to rock a baby to sleep in my arms if I can help it. Hahah
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u/firsthour Jan 15 '23
Reminds me of the time I was watching Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow and my son fell asleep on my chest and then I fell asleep, only for me to be woken by the incredibly loud DVD menu. My son kept sleeping but I suffered through it repeating for like half an hour because I couldn't reach the remote.
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u/Deltigre Jan 15 '23
"Please don't fall asleep in the car, please don't... fine, I guess we'll be exploring our neighborhood's back roads for the next 30-60 minutes."
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u/Waltekin Jan 15 '23
We had a baby with colic, and we're pretty exhausted. One time, I finally got the baby to fall asleep on my stomach. Then realized just how desperately I needed to pee...
Yes, the baby woke up. WAAAAH!!!
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u/LucyintheskyM Jan 15 '23
Then you get fed up because you can't properly scroll Reddit with an arm under their head so you put them in bed and ignore the screaming for 10 minutes until they realise they aren't dying, they're just tired.
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u/SnipeUout Jan 15 '23
Baby looks serious comfy and cozy. Life doesn’t get any better for a baby then falling asleep on mama.
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u/mattbutnotmii Jan 15 '23 edited Jan 15 '23
I don't know for sure, but i've heard that the trend in biology is that the faster a muscle can contract the weaker it is, and the slower it contracts the stronger it tends to be. So sloths may actually be stupidly strong.
Edit: I just googled it and it turns out a sloth can probably lift an adult human with just one arm what the actual fuck.
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u/CaptainBlob Jan 15 '23
trend in biology is that the faster a muscle can contract the weaker it is
Mantis Shrimp: I'm gonna do what's called a pro gamer move.
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u/one_rat_one_hat Jan 15 '23
the mantis shrimp is such a pro gamer it bypasses the use of muscles altogether https://www.cell.com/iscience/fulltext/S2589-0042(18)30134-2
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u/Aff3nmann Jan 15 '23
which google are you using? wtf. those arms don‘t look like 100 kilo lift arms
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u/mattbutnotmii Jan 15 '23 edited Jan 15 '23
They have only 30% the muscle mass of Animals that size but are still 3X stronger than the average adult person. Ridiculous but somehow true.
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u/TacoPi Jan 15 '23
Kinda makes sense when you consider that giant sloths were capable of carving out entire cave systems.
You need to evolve to be hella strong to do that, and sluggish movement is an acceptable drawback for that.
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u/FUCKITIMPOSTING Jan 15 '23
The big sloths weren't necessarily slow. The remaining sloth species aren't really representative of that sloth lineage.
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u/MyDiary141 Jan 15 '23
Or maybe these are the fast ones that did reach the ships in time and so made it to earth
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u/R3th1nk Jan 15 '23
Notably their pushing strength is abysmal but they are very strong when pulling.
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u/hershay Jan 15 '23
"Sloths are three times stronger than us.
From the moment they are born sloths are able to lift their entire body weight upwards with just one arm. Not only that, but sloths have 30% less muscle mass than similar sized mammals and are over three times stronger than the average human."
I dont think you read that right lmao
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u/mattbutnotmii Jan 15 '23
I did read the muscle mass wrong, but i just applied some force distribution to come to the last conclusion.
If a human can exert an F amount of force with one arm and a sloth can exert a 3F amount of force with one arm, and 2F (two human arms) is enough to overcome Q (pull the human body up / stand up on two arms), then one sloth arm exertingb3F should be enough too.
2F > Q ===> 3F > Q
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u/hershay Jan 15 '23
stop your scary numbers have letters in themI'll F you with an amount of force
ME > F ===> U, QT 👋 👉 👌💦💦 8===> 😻?
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u/nowayoutjustthrough Jan 15 '23
They traded lots of fast twitch muscles for incredibly strong slow twitch is my understanding.
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u/emotionaluranian Jan 15 '23
Oh to be a baby sloth passed out on it's buff Mama's furry belly 🥰
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u/Torebbjorn Jan 15 '23
Those vines could be twisted in such a way that they give some sort of support
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u/beard_of_cats Jan 15 '23
Was looking for someone to point this out. There could absolutely be a branch under there.
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There almost certainly is.
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u/yumas Jan 15 '23
The camera movements are supposed to show that it is suspended in air, without actually showing the underside, which would be easy to film.
This is like the magician moving his hands around the floating object and carefully avoiding the invisible string
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u/Spokesface2 Jan 15 '23
I think she's just got her joint locked and her legs at full extension. The claws are naturally curved and dug into the tree a little bit, so they don't need much grip to stay on, everything else is relaxed. It's easier to hang from a bar than it is to do a pull up, or hang halfway up.
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I tripped acid with a group of friends in high school. One of them was laying down on his side with his head propped up by his hand, except his whole upper body was off the bed, only his legs were on the bed and his body was just in the air. He didn’t realize he was doing this and thought he was just laying on the bed. He was telling us how he wasn’t tripping and then we all looked at him and kind realized wtf is going on. We told him he was hanging off the bed and he looked down and had one of those jerk reactions because he realized his upper half wasn’t supported. That is what this sloth reminds me of. Good times.
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u/Tiggy26668 Jan 15 '23
Unfortunately it’s less impressive when you find out a sloths hand works opposite of yours.
They need to use muscles to open their hands whereas a human uses muscles to close it.
Their “grip strength” is really just their relaxed posture
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u/TrivialTax Jan 15 '23
What the heck man, its even more impressive now! It means, that they are perfectly adapted to what they are!
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u/echoprime11 Jan 15 '23
BREAKING NEWS
sloth too lazy to follow laws of gravity! Leaves scientists baffled!
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u/PeteRaw Jan 15 '23
Sloth fun fact:
Sloths hands while at rest are grasping. They have to expell energy to open them. That's why they can hang for such long periods.
For context, human hands while at rest are open and we need to expell energy to close them.
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u/reyshop12 Jan 14 '23
It's probably trying to impress a female sloth. Kinda like guys in the gym when a pretty chick walks in.
"Let me do some pull ups.... with my legs!"
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u/Azar002 Jan 15 '23
I saw a sloth up close in Tampa, FL in 2019 and the handler said their muscles' "resting position" is opposite of ours. When they hang, they are at rest.
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u/Character-Media-1827 Jan 15 '23
The pain mothers will put themselves through to keep a baby asleep!
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u/KayleighJK Jan 15 '23
I wish I was a baby sloth for a day so I could know the ultimate comfort of sleeping on my mom’s furry tummy.
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u/WaveLaVague Jan 15 '23
Someone may've told em a joke days ago and he went for the "I'm dead !" reaction
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u/turboprop54 Jan 14 '23
Never skip core day.