They say it moves so slowly that other animals can't see it. You'd think that a few predators would have adapted to detect nearby sloths because they would be an easy meal.
They say it moves so slowly that other animals can't see it. You'd think that a few predators would have adapted to detect nearby sloths because they would be an easy meal.
Well, what other animals live in its area and can get up into trees?
Jaguars. I bet they are hard to see if they are in a tree. Most of the time they just hang there or move really slow, but they are well-camouflaged.
do you go to edinboro?
How did you slip through the evolutionary cracks. You smell.
My dog acts like that all the time..
Check out "Harpy Eagle kills sloth" on youtube before stating that they have no predators. Sloths also come down out of trees to "use the facilities" and there are a number of animals capable of killing them when they are on the ground. Jaguars, cougars and likely anacondas.
Wow, I think you may have just debunked evolution.
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Mike Huckabee for Janitor 2008 wrote:
Wow, I think you may have just debunked evolution.
Thanks for the endorsement, but I don't think so. I was just wondering if there's anybody here who can explain why they're still around or ever came to be in the first place.
Early on, they learned that it was a bad idea to taunt the tigers. Just be cool, hang out, and don't bother anyone. It's a jungle out there.
What about the turkey? Slow, flightless, stupid and tasty. Yet still around.
Evolution doesnt mean bigger, faster, stronger-if thats not whats required for the animal to stay alive. Until the ice-age sloths could grow to twice the height of an elephant. I'd love to see a caugar go after that.
Check this out:
it's called a niche.
The sloth has found a loop hole in evolution where animals are trained to react to quick movements and their speedy reflexes continually save their life. In response predators adapt to go after quick prey. The sloth with it's slow motions and quirkiness survived because it "outsmarted" genetically the predators. They enhance their response to quick changes and the sloth's slow motions go unnoticed. Since it is not a predator of animals it has no need to be elusively fast.
Wild Turkeys are considered one of the hardest animals to hunt. Smart, fast, and they can fly extremely well. In level flight a Turkey is a very quick bird. Anyone who says they are slow and stupid has never been out of the barn yard.
HRE wrote:
What about the turkey? Slow, flightless, stupid and tasty. Yet still around.
The turkey that you are probably thinking of is in fact more of a creation of man than nature. It's basicially been engineered only to have as much mass as possible; in fact, the turkey that the president pardons every year typically lives no more than 3 weeks longer because these things are so biologically unfit to live.
HRE wrote:
What about the turkey? Slow, flightless, stupid and tasty. Yet still around.
Turkey, no. Grouse, yes.
Opossums are another baffler.
HRE wrote:
What about the turkey? Slow, flightless, stupid and tasty. Yet still around.
They are tasty, but I wouldn't apply any of those other adjectives.
Some animals also just "don't taste good" and so other animals have learned not to eat them unless it's really necessary. I mean you don't see wild tigers going around munching on mice do you? Sloths spend most of their time in trees and so not many predators can get up there to get them.
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