Why Sloth Fur is Perfect for an Upside-Down Life 🦥 Gorgona Snake Prison Island | Smithsonian Channel

In mammals, hair parts grow along the spine and flow down the back to the belly. Because sloths spend most of their life upside-down in the trees, its fur grows the other way–belly to back–allowing it to drip dry from the rain.

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[terramater]

🦥 Sloth side fact: The giant ground sloth was one of the only animals big enough to eat avocado pits whole and disperse them. ​
So without the sloth, there might be no avocado on toast today.

btw: Great video & great topic! Our film team was also really surprised about the sloth-moth relationship!

[truck_yeah_]

1:10 He's smiling and posing for the camera. He's like I'm good I'll just chill here.

Sloths are my spirit animal.

[qqqsfdf]

So to protect against cancer I need to increase my slothliness? Got it!

[ChefRafi]

Fascinating! I want to see sloths in their natural environment.

[katiaplantscientist]

Adorable footage of these gentle animals, really brightened my day. I'd like to add that this is a female sloth not a male although the narrator keeps referring to it as "he". The males have an orange and black marking on their backs.

[liquidfox]

Anyone else think it looked like the he was trying to give the middle finger to the forrest floor?

[muhumuzaemmanuel]

The sloths were too slow to escape the island, literally

[JorgeOGRodriguez]

Amazing! I move slow to save energy too 😃

[ryder]

I sincerely hope that this species of moth is known as the "Sloth Moth"--someone missed a unique opportunity, otherwise.

[saidtoshimaru]

0:22 - Me, sunday at 3 o'clock PM.

[motojunkie]

Sloth gets a fungus it's exciting, I get a fungus and all of a sudden I'm disgusting.

[lisasternenkind]

Is it very bad to say something like this? ~~~>>> He reminds me of my oldest son as teenager. XD
OMG I hope he will never ever read this.

[lesgrossman]

Marooned from the outside world eh; I’d say more like saved from it

[koreanature]

That's a great video. I will always cheer for you in Korea I'm looking forward to a great video. Have a nice day.