Documentaries: The life of the Sloth
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but some sloth steak predator avoidance to the next level. Thanks to rare extra vertebrae in its neck, the three fingered sloth can turn its head 270 degrees, which allows it to smell incoming predators from almost any direction. And that's especially useful when you spend nearly all of your time motionless in a tree, in fact slow THS sleep mate and even give birth all while hanging upside down on a branch. And, as you might expect, that requires some pretty extreme adaptations. They've got special tendons in their hands, which lock into place and, along with their long hook like fingernails, allow them to hang easily. They're like a giant coat hanger and to combat a rush of blood to the head, which might be familiar ifyou've ever hung upside down. They have special sort of valves in their circulatory system that does actually stopped the pulling of the blood in the head. But if you think that's extreme, consider this Once a week. Slow ce risk their lives on a daring journey from the protective forest canopy to the ground, their mission to poop, and it really is risky. We suspect about 60% of predator based sloth deaths happen while they're pooping, they literally risk their life to come down to the ground. So they have to make it count on boy. They really do slow skin, lose an astonishing 30% of their body weight each time they go. Plus, they might get a mate out of it. How do you find a mate if your solitary and you can't move very far? Well, they're gonna have to use pheromones and sent Marcus.