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To: RegulatorCountry
A sloth can actually run 15 mph.

Only if it was falling out of a tree.

It's actually 0.15 mph. :^)

21 posted on 11/03/2013 6:55:17 AM PST by Flycatcher (God speaks to us, through the supernal lightness of birds, in a special type of poetry.)
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To: Flycatcher

I did a marketing internship for a natural science center with a zoo, they had a few sloths. Occasionally the rheas, smart sneaky birds, South American kin to the ostrich but slightly smaller, would unlatch a gate or work a section of fence loose and go on the lam. Other species would join in at times, once a sloth. All hands were called out to corral them back into the enclosure. Yes they can run, as fast as a human can. Got some claws on them, too. Capable of being quite nasty if they don’t want to do what you’re trying to make them do. Koalas can be surprisingly nasty, too. They’re sleepy, cuddly and cute most of the time, but man don’t ever piss one off, lol.


22 posted on 11/03/2013 7:03:30 AM PST by RegulatorCountry
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