@mtechman Oh my word! How tall is that?

@mtechman@mastodon.ie ground sloths my beloved

@mtechman A prime candidate for de-extinction in my opinion.

@mtechman What is he planning to check out? A salad cookbook?

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Given the amount of time I've spent sitting and reading, a giant sloth would seem to be the perfect mascot for a library.

@mtechman What an absolute unit. Now I want to be a ground sloth!

@mtechman Whoa! That's a big one.

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Last Summer I cut myself on a young honey locust and looked it up.

The giant thorns were a defense against these giant sloth!
https://bygl.osu.edu/node/959

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@mtechman Reminds me of Rusty at the University of Iowa https://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/islandora/object/ui%3Aideal_inp_2014_142_rusty1

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That's awesome! I love libraries ❤️

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Waitaminute!
Those Sasquatch photos!
It all fits!

Also giant sloth hugs for the win ❤️

@mtechman oh, my.

@mtechman RUUUUNNN!!! RUUUUN!!!!

@mtechman I wish this was at my library.

@mtechman love him/her!

@mtechman what a cutie! also, that won't cause any kids to have nightmares... nope.

@mtechman not sure if small door or huge sloth

@mtechman This is real? reminds me of a good (german) audioplay:
https://www.hoerspielprojekt.de/music/mole-1/

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I love this. The closest I can think of close to home is the overstuffed Horniman Walrus....

"When Victorian taxidermists received a strange creature with heavy folds of grooved skin, they thought all those wrinkles needed to be smoothed out. And so the Horniman Museum’s walrus, as with so many taxidermy works made by those who hadn’t yet glimpsed the dead animal in its living state, became its own sort of walrus — heavily overstuffed until he seems about to burst, and not a wrinkle over his taut skin."

https://www.horniman.ac.uk/object/NH.H.44/

I would like to bring this giant ground sloth to the attention of both #monsterdon and @gotosocial :

https://mastodon.ie/@mtechman/112752900609450817 / @mtechman

@mtechman This does give me the feeling of wanting to give it a hug though it'll totally destroy me as a bear does.