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[–] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

predators wait for them

They wait for a sloth? On the ground? For it to crawl down to take a dump?

That entire foodchain is all kinds of janked up.

[–] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 1 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

The poop drop is a signal that locates the large slow moving animal for predators. They can't clear the area faster than a jaguar arrives to investigate.

So they wait until it looks safe, climb down and put their shit at the base of a tree and climb back up.

But jaguars who have located a sloth also know they can wait for it to come to them. Which is why sloths try not to be located.

[–] Klear@quokk.au 1 points 14 hours ago

And over half of sloth deaths are "being eaten while going to poop".

Intelligent design my ass.