They can starve to death on a full stomach In two-fingered sloths, this over-sized stomach is supported by 46 ribs (23 pairs) which is more than any other mammal! Two-fingered sloths have 46 ribs to support their large stomachs – that is more than any other mammal! 7. They have an incredibly large and permanently full four-chambered stomach, which can account for up to 30% of their body mass. Sloths have the lowest metabolic rate of any mammal, which means that it takes them a long time to digest anything. Thankfully, sloths compensate for such poor vision by having a phenomenal sense of smell and a great spatial memory! Their bad eyesight also plays a key role in the sloths slowness - you can’t run around in the trees if you can’t see where you are going!Ħ. As a result all sloths are colour-blind, can only see poorly in dim light and are completely blind in bright daylight. They have a very rare condition called rod monochromacy which means that they completely lack cone cells in their eyes. Scientists still do not understand why sloths risk their lives to poop on the ground. While there are many different theories, the likely explanation is that it’s all about communication and reproduction. This weird weekly routine remains one of the biggest mysteries surrounding sloth behaviour. They will only relieve themselves once a week and can lose up to a third of their body weight in one sitting! Furthermore, they will only do it on the ground after wiggling around the base of a tree to dig a little hole. Sloths are famous for their bizarre bathroom habits. They poop a third of their body weight in one go Additional examples can be found on the microblogging site Tumblr under the tag "#rape sloth.3. She put me in the friend-zone… so I put her in the rape-zone.Īs of February 2013, the "Rape Sloth" Quickmeme page has received over 100 submissions and the Meme Generator page has accumulated over 6,000 items. On January 21st, 2013, a Facebook page titled "Rape Sloth" was launched, which garnered upwards of 1,100 likes within the next month. On September 25th, the Twitter feed was created, which tweeted captions from the image macro series. On the following day, the post was linked in the subreddit /r/ShitRedditSays, which criticized the image macro for joking about sexual assault. On August 31st, Redditor happyman91 submitted an image macro with the caption "You know what rhymes with sloth? / Rape" (shown below) to the /r/funny subreddit, receiving more than 4,600 up votes and 65 comments in the following five months. On June 21st, 9gag user johniskewl resubmitted the same compilation, which received over 19,000 up votes, 2,000 Facebook shares and 80 comments in eight months. On March 16th, 2012, FunnyJunk user braindeadsixtynine submitted a compilation of notable examples from the series, gaining more than 56,000 views, 2,200 up votes and 100 comments within the next 10 months. The thread continued to generate responses for the next 10 months, accumulating a total of 230 replies. But the image macro series began years later on February 22nd, 2012, when Body Building Forums member VitaCrave submitted a thread titled "Rape Sloth" (shown below, middle, right). On June 17th, 2009, the fashion blog Touch Puppet published a post about Terry Richardson's 2010 Pirelli Calendar photo shoot, which included a photograph of a nude model posing with a sloth (shown below, left). The captions often contain creepy sexual innuendo, pick up lines and alarming threats that are meant to disturb the reader, in a similar vein to the Prepare Your Anus and You Gonna Get Raped image macros. Rape Sloth is an advice animal image macro series featuring a photograph of a sloth that appears to be whispering in a woman’s ear. Image macro, disturbing, sloth, braindeadsixtynine, johniskewl
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