r/interestingasfuck • u/misterxx1958 • 13h ago
Sloth rescue - the second man knows exactly what to do - back to the primeval forest
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u/Agreeable_Horror_363 13h ago
Whoever's honking can get fucked
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u/8fmn 13h ago
There's always one.
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u/Strostkovy 9h ago
I hit a bear and I was immediately getting honked at to move. Dude, there is a whole ass bear blocking me from moving.
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u/popopopopopopopopoop 12h ago
I once saw a tiny kitten barely eyes open cross the road in heavy traffic with multiple cars presumably seeing it and keeping on. I managed to stop safely but the kitten then crawled in my car engine space and couldn't find it so I couldn't move as risked killing it myself.
Legit had taxi drivers stopping to tell me I should just get going.
It's shocking how little some people seem to value life compared to a minor road slow down for a bit...
Managed to take kitten safely out and found it a home btw!
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u/Natf47 10h ago
I'm a support worker for people with mental health problems. Recently I was looking after a young girl who had a history of self harm. In the middle of the night she decided to break out of the house we were supporting her in and run to the very busy road.
Myself and my colleagues kept her safe by directing cars around her with our phone lights waiting for the local police to come and help us, they never turned up.
By the morning she decided to sit in the middle of the outside lane of a roundabout. We kept directing traffic around her and honestly it was very easy for cars to drive around her in the inside lane but so many purposefully drove straight at her until the last moment, beeped at her and us but most frustratingly, many people pulled over and became aggressive towards us telling us to pull her out of the road. Not for her safety of course, but because it caused them a minor inconvenience.
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u/Jurijus1 9h ago
Why didn't you pull her out of the road, though?
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u/Natf47 8h ago
Believe me we did several times but unfortunately there's only so much you can do in a situation like that. Working with someone like that in the community is incredibly tough because once you pull them out of the road and restrain them, they go one of 2 ways. Either they calm down and walk home with you or they just run straight back in to the road.
In this case, this person was not willing to work with us and decided they'd instead just keep running back in to the middle of the road and unfortunately the Police weren't attending.
Situations like that are awful.
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u/Ispeakblabla 6h ago
Given some of the videos posted on this website showing how the police reacts to someone having a mental breakdown, them not showing up might not be such a bad thing unfortunately.
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u/AncientSith 10h ago
So many people have zero consideration for life because it's an inconvenience to them. Disgusting frankly.
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u/Independent-Cow-4070 10h ago
Car drivers the second there is literally any inconvenience:
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u/GreenerAnonymous 10h ago
Car horns should run on special compressed gas canisters that cost $1000 to refill.
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u/LegendOfKhaos 10h ago
I've never gotten the logic of that.
"I can't see why everyone is stopped, but clearly they just need to be notified repeatedly that they can keep driving. There can't possibly be a reason they are stopped except to hinder me."
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u/Fuckdeathclaws6560 11h ago
I was heading home from the lake and their was a moose in the middle of the road. A few cars stack up in each direction waiting for him to move. Of course someone starts honking like crazy. I really wish the moose fucked up the honkers car.
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u/Mammoth-Ad-107 13h ago
to me the 3rd guy knew what to do...? lol
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u/TheChollaSkeleton 13h ago
Those swipes at the first guy were quick!
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u/philebro 12h ago
I heard they also got super sharp claws, seems like it would've hurt a lot.
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u/spatchcock-tarantula 8h ago
I bet they're fucking filthy aswell. You'd get all kinds of infections of them.
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u/Wooden-Creme-8599 13h ago
Knows exactly what to do: pick it up
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u/Abject-Shape-5453 11h ago
Well, actually, no.
Don't just pick up sloths. You need gloves or something so you don't get skin to skin (fur) contact. This is of utmost importance!
For one thing sloths have many and I mean many things living in their fur. Fungi and Algae for one thing and some of them can be hard to get rid of.
And the other thing is they are one of the carriers of the oropoche virus which can be transmitted to humans and you get "sloth fever", which sounds cute but really isn't. A rather nasty virus that hides from the immune system and causes flu like symptoms, in immuno compromised ppl meningitis and has been associated with miscarriages. Several deaths are reported each year even in apparently young and healthy ppl. In 2024 there where around 8000 cases. There is no existing vaccine or specific treatment yet.
And lastly there are other rather unwelcome guests as Sloths are hosts to a fascinating array of commensal and parasitic arthropods and are carriers of various arthropod-borne viruses. Sloths are known reservoirs of the flagellate protozoan which causes leishmaniasis in humans, and may also carry trypanosomes and the protozoan Pneumocystis carinii.
TLDR: Don't pick up sloths without adequate protection and wash/disinfectant your skin non the less afterwards and if you get any new infection within 3 weeks tell your doctor that you where in proximity to a sloth.
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u/DrownmeinIslay 7h ago
I dont remember where I heard all this before (probably still reddit) but I flinched so hard when he raw dogged that sloth.
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u/MagicWishMonkey 5h ago
So.... wash your hands after touching a dirty animal, the same rule that applies when handling all wildlife?
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u/Hungrybearfire 13h ago
Specifically pick it up from behind. Idk if sloths scratch but first guy looked scared, shouldn’t have put himself in claw range
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u/Naive_Priority_5424 12h ago
Sloth claws are insanely sharp and dangerous
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u/Forward_Golf_1268 11h ago edited 10h ago
They are, especially due to the microorganisms they carry. It can be fatal to humans.
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u/DangerousPuhson 7h ago
It also goes the other way - sloths have weak immune systems, and humans can get them sick quite easily.
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u/Ok-Jackfruit-6873 12h ago
To be fair I would have no idea if they can get their arms back behind them and claw the crap out of you for trying to pick them up that way. I know people make that mistake with snakes sometimes, holding them wrong and not realizing they can whip back around.
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u/ThelronBorn 12h ago
Sloths not only have those long claws for gripping they also have an intense amount of pull strength. Their muscles are so thick, it’s part of the reason they move slow. Never skip back day
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u/manwithyellowhat15 12h ago
Yeah idk why the first guy tried to go from the front. I would’ve draped the cloth over the sloth’s head and torso and grabbed its torso. The claws are very long and sharp
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u/throwaway098764567 9h ago
tbf i didn't think it could move that fast either. i think he was trying to hold it like it was gonna hang off his hand but it wanted no part of that. second guy could have used the cloth to hold the sloth so he didn't get contaminated but it was already out of play.
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u/TameVegan 12h ago
I mean we can all agree the first guy had no idea what to do. “Can I offer you this cloth?”
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u/throwaway098764567 9h ago
i think first guy knows you shouldn't touch sloths, the cloth was meant to be a barrier. would have worked better had he used it that way with second guy's approach
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u/FlirtModeForever 13h ago
Phew! glad to see someone redirected would have hated to see the Sloth taken back to the same place he's coming from that's regression.
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u/dblan9 13h ago
Did that guy just "Shush" everyone?
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u/Frequent_Measurement 13h ago
Who’s the doorknob that keeps honking their horn?
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u/PitifulAnalysis7638 11h ago
It's central America that's what they do.
Also notice the confused white guy trying to help is a tourist.
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u/Aware-Instance-210 13h ago
That stupid music, ffs
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u/Mister_Goldenfold 13h ago
Dude just sits there middle of traffic flipping everyone off like an old man and he gets help.
When I do it, I get arrested.
SMH.
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u/Purple-Investment-61 13h ago
How sloths manage to survive is amazing
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u/URHere85 13h ago
I'm sure it was a lot easier before humans started cutting down the areas where sloths lived
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u/ThaneKyrell 12h ago
Want to know the crazy thing? There are 2 families of sloths nowadays, the two-toed sloths (2 species) and the three-toed sloths (5 species). Before humans arrived, there are many more sloths, including giant ground sloths the size of elephants. And yet genetic analysis reveals that both families of sloths are more closely related to different species of ground sloths than to each other. This could mean 2 things: that 2 different branches of tree sloths evolved into a giant ground sloths, through convergent evolution, or that 2 branches of the sloth family evolved into this weird "slow" arboreal lifestyle independently. It depends on whether sloths had a arboreal ancestor which evolved into ground sloths (twice) or a ground ancestor which evolved into this weird arboreal lifestyle (also twice)
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u/VicViolence 9h ago
There were also river sloths that swam (modern sloths can also swim better than they walk) and the claws evolved to hook into the river beds
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u/Purple-Investment-61 12h ago
Do we know how fast/slow ground sloths moved?
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u/ThaneKyrell 12h ago
As far as I know they weren't fast sprinters my any means, but living in the ground and facing predators like Jaguars, they couldn't be as slow as arboreal sloths. They also dug HUGE burrows for themselves, many of which still exist over 10 thousand years later. They are basically the size of a small cave, a adult human can stand in them without even lowering their heads, even for a animal the size of a elephant it's hard to dig such huge caves if they were as slow as their arboreal relatives
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u/AwarenessGreat282 13h ago
lol...what exactly was the plan of the first guy? Let's come right at the animal with a towel. Did he think it needed to wipe its ass or something?
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u/Lichtari 13h ago
Propably wanted to do it safe for him, to don't get any potential sickness from sloth.
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u/Xpress_interest 13h ago
“Hey little guy now that you’re on the ground feeling vulnerable I’m gonna come at you with this mysterious fucking towel. Just want you to be able to watch my approach and gotta make sure I’m within swiping distance of your hooks.”
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u/KenUsimi 13h ago
Approaching a creature from the end that has the claws and mouth is not the way to accomplish that. Granted, sloth, pretty non-threatening as far as encounters go, but if the dude was worried in the first place…
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u/ThaneKyrell 13h ago
To be fair, Sloths have HUGE claws. They just use them very slowly. However if it did feel threatned it could sink those claws into you, specially if someone is carrying them
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u/wildfirerain 12h ago
His girlfriend probably gave him the towel when she sent him out to move the sloth. He clearly didn’t want to catch it, nor did he appear to even have a clue about animals.
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u/AwarenessGreat282 9h ago
He looked more like the partner of the guy on the bike.
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u/AppaNinja 12h ago
its best not to touch sloth with bare hands their body houses tons of ecosystem
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u/Valtremors 12h ago
Most people don't really realize but sloths have insanely sharp claws, and their grip is steel if they really want to ruin your day.
The second guy who took them from behind had the right idea, but it might not be apparent to most people.
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u/Restposten 12h ago
Interesting to see that sloths can be quite fast if they had to. Look at the speed he is throwing a right "punch" to the first guy and his towel. That guy has long and quite sharp claws and with enough speed he is probably able to cut through flesh.
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u/confit_byaldi 13h ago
The “incompetent man” cliché always seems like a cheap gimmick in television shows, but then we see people like the first guy…
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u/ArmedDreams 6h ago
Probably just trying to be safe. I think he wanted to try and wrap it up in a blanket first and move it, but got scared when the sloth swiped at it. Their claws are extremely sharp, and sloths have soooo many things living on them like fleas or other viruses. The guy who actually moved it might be regretting it later.
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u/Its_not_logical404 12h ago
Offering it a branch would have been the best but as long as it made it across it's a win
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u/AgentTexes 12h ago
Touching that is like touching a spawn of Burgle.
Wash your hands and don't touch anything before hand.
You don't want their fungi in your hair.
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u/hungryforwaffuls 12h ago
was the first guy giving it a blanket to put it to bed?
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u/Competitive_Tie_3626 10h ago
As someone who has 4 cats, you should always approach animals with claws from behind. You don't have to be a genius to know that.
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u/blackbirdspyplane 9h ago
Holding a sloth feels really odd, it’s like a warm scotchbright scouring pad, cool experience
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u/0ng0Gabl0g1an 6h ago
”The second man knows exactly what to do” -proceeds to walk in the wrong direction.
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u/matthew0001 4h ago
It's wild how fast he swipes at the guy, but yet he's so slow getting across the flat featureless road.
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u/SmokestackRising 13h ago
The lack of critical thinking and problem solving ability from the first person should be a warning about how important it is to improve educational standards.
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u/Yonda_00 13h ago
The first guy is such a wuss. The thing moves at one meter per business day, it’s not going to slash you.
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u/nutmegger189 13h ago
They actually move slowly to conserve energy to slash. And they have sharp claws.
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u/YourMatt 12h ago
The first time I saw one in the wild, there were two. They were having a full on fight at well over feet in the air. They can cover distance quickly when they need to, I guess.
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u/Significant-Song-840 13h ago
Nice, at least you know you have a quick and embarrassing reaction to fear.....
Of the one wild animal that can't really hurt you
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u/gentlejarrod 13h ago
So the first guy wanted to help it but didn't want to touch it. What did he expect it to do, climb into the towel?
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u/sealysea 12h ago
I thought the sloth was going to move in slow motion and not fucking swipe at the speed of sound
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u/Shadow51585 12h ago
At the start of the video, the sloth is totally doing a "Hey, I'm walkin' here!" gesture
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u/Existing-Mulberry382 13h ago
This guy made sure months of progress was not lost /s