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Why sloths sometimes fall from grabbing themselves

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These creatures move so remarkably slow and possess such terrible vision that they sometimes grab their own limbs while climbing. This tragic miscalculation leads to them instantly falling directly out of the canopy, proving nature definitely has a dark sense of humor.

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