Swimming Sloth

Posted by Miss Cellania in Animal, Video Clips on December 19, 2007 at 10:53 am



(YouTube link)

I didn’t know sloths could swim, but according to Wikipedia, most mammals can swim by instinct if they need to. This little guy does a pretty good job, although slowly as you would expect. The video was recorded near Isla Cristobal in Panama. -via Arbroath


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19 comments to "Swimming Sloth"

  1. Jsahko
    December 19th, 2007 at 11:34 am

    How does the sloth just not attract every single predator and the jungle? Does their meat taste bad? You’d think at that speed they would be long-extinct.

    Could it be that they are saved by their sheer cuteness? I want one.

  2. NiteWhite
    December 19th, 2007 at 11:57 am

    That bitch put the sloth on the wrong tree!

  3. Mr. Picky
    December 19th, 2007 at 12:14 pm

    When I was in Brazil, I took a short excursion to the Amazons. In the middle of the night a sloth swum to our boat in the middle of the river and climbed aboard, apparently looking for food.

    Our guide grabbed him by the scruff of the neck, showed him to everyone on board, then sent him overboard again behind the boat.

  4. Stephoid
    December 19th, 2007 at 12:36 pm

    sure wish humans would stop interfering with nature

  5. Paul
    December 19th, 2007 at 1:03 pm

    Yeah, let the litte guy drown.

  6. Jacques
    December 19th, 2007 at 1:20 pm

    What the sloth would say if he weren’t a sloth, “Hey lady, lemme go, lemme go! That’s where I was coming from!!!!” Dumbasses.

  7. SenorMysterioso
    December 19th, 2007 at 1:24 pm

    Aw he would not have drown. Something else would have come along and ate him before that ever happened.

  8. Chris
    December 19th, 2007 at 1:53 pm

    what is PETA doing?

  9. kid icarus
    December 19th, 2007 at 2:50 pm

    i sort of expected a predator to get him when they put him in the tree…

  10. otterly
    December 19th, 2007 at 3:55 pm

    Thats a magical creature. For some reason every time I see one I find I feel moved in some small way.

  11. biltmore
    December 19th, 2007 at 4:07 pm

    Cool sloth, stupid lady … how about put the sloth aboard the boat and drop the annoying soccer mom into the water.

  12. Justin
    December 19th, 2007 at 4:40 pm

    Well from what I’ve heard sloths rarely leave their tree only to go to the bathroom. But maybe his tree fell over so he had to switch.

    I think what saves them is that they had up in trees 9/10 of their lives.

  13. Joanne
    December 19th, 2007 at 7:22 pm

    The dog was thinking “Nom nom nom”

  14. jenny
    December 19th, 2007 at 9:33 pm

    okay i dont think im the only one that knows this… or i shouldn’t be
    but sloths are actually relatively very good swimmers, its not a rare occasion, they live in the rain forest and when it floods they tend to come down and look for new trees and food
    they actually swim better than they walk

  15. Bonnie
    December 19th, 2007 at 11:40 pm

    It takes sloths an inordinately long time to drown because of their slow metabolisms. They are actually really good swimmers, it just takes them long time to get where they are going. (Thank you Animal Planet!)

  16. fz
    December 20th, 2007 at 5:32 am

    I want a sloth now.

  17. MoonCake
    December 20th, 2007 at 7:14 am

    i want a sloth as a pet soo bad.. they sleep somewhere around 20 hours a day, but if you’ve ever seen one sleeping, it’s cuteness alone is reason enough to own one. i want to name him frank. or hector.

  18. Vako
    December 20th, 2007 at 3:49 pm

    Perfect example of why the world generally has negative stereotypes of Americans.

    John Lennon said it best… “Let it be”.

    An over-moneyed “big ugly dumb North American” who is “out boating” sees a native animal doing what it is supposed to do, and has to molest it.

    Look, but don’t touch.

  19. JoEpAnG
    December 23rd, 2007 at 10:37 pm

    this sloth is a friend of mine, he told me he dropped something into the water that day and was searching for it, then that bitch took it away and he never find it back to the spot………well, thanks bitch….


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