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Exactly my thought lol
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π΅ Two lovers forbidden from one another π΅
π΅ A war divides their people π΅
π΅ And a mountain divides them apart, build a path to be together π΅
...Yeah, and I forget the next couple of lines, but then it goes...
Secret tunnel!
Secret tunnel!
Through the mountain!
Secret, secret, secret, secret tunnelSECRET TUNNEL!!!!!
If they still existed they would probably have moved into existing human-mined tunnels. Whether they'd wait until we abandoned them or chase us out, or help us build them, would depend on our relationship with them
What if we domesticated them and used them to mine coal?
"A train derailed in the tunnel due to a giant sloth sleeping on the tracks. No word of survivors at the time of recording, but officials say that they are expecting multiple fatalities including the sloth."
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Big enough to be comfortably used by humans
Pffffbtbtbt, housing crisis schmousing crisis. There's your answer, chaps.
Just wait until some oil baron says that sloth-dug tunnels is the way to "deal" with climate change.
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The tiny thumbnail for this looked like a belly button on my phone, had no idea what I was tapping on at first
A(lmost)NSFW
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So my take from this is, the higher above ground level a sloth is, the lazier it gets.
I heard if you turn out the lights and kiss your crush, you can find a way out of the tunnel.
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I may not be remembering correctly, but didn't Sloth dig the tunnel in Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood?
Edit: had to look it up. He did. Probably a coincidence
I'm having a hard time not seeing a belly button.
And what happened to the giant sloths?
Earth warms up from ice age. Big sloth too fuzzy. Loses fuzz and tries to climb tree. Big sloth too big. Small big sloth gets smaller, climbs tree.
Lol I know this is a joke but they died out, tree sloths existed back then too and are a totally separate group of animals. They didnβt evolve from the animals that dug this tunnel. They do share a common ancestor millions of years ago but this is like saying saber tooth cats evolved into house cats.
but this is like saying saber tooth cats evolved into house cats.
I'm pretty sure my house cat believes this is true, evidence to the contrary be damned.
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We ate them π
Miniaturisation and the march of progress
How do you think we got tardigrades
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I wasn't sure if this was true or a weird misunderstanding or conspiracy type thing. Seems to be true. Here is an accessible writeup: https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20231127-brazils-mysterious-tunnels-made-by-giant-sloths
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... Looks like the recent images from inside my sinus'.
Less boogies though.
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These giant slots dug these giants tunnels to hide from whom?
So long and thanks for the avacados!
Sloths are well known for their industrious nature.
Can you imagine being stuck in the dawn of human agriculture, and you seek shelter in a nice cave that you found.... And then a Giant Sloth just lumbers in after a bit.
I mean, I imagine any Homo species of the time would know not to go inside one of these, but still.
So not giant sloths specifically, but Australian Aboriginals have oral histories describing megafauna that went extinct around the same time period
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Megatheriums were herbivores, so it would be like spending the night with an elephant.
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At the "Grand canyon caverns" in northern Arizona, there are claw marks from a giant sloth who fell into the caves from a hole at ground level and clawed desperately to the walls trying to get out. They tell that story on the tour 
Sloth city.
Thatβs in the south, right? I heard a lot of humanists and that ilk are trying to stop them from building it?
You are thinking of Pig City in Georgia.
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Richard Gere is wishing he was born back then.
This is capitalist propaganda This tunnel was in fact dug by me
I dig myself deeper holes on a regular basis.
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