Sloths have unexplained left-side bias in their strength - study reveals

[Still Waters]

Sloths are surprisingly stronger than their adorably dopey expressions suggest, which makes sense given they live their lives dangling from trees literally by their bony fingernails.

Puzzlingly, in spite of using all four limbs to grip onto branches, sloths seem to be extra strong on their left side compared to their right. New York Institute of Technology anatomist Melody Young and colleagues discovered this in the first ever attempts to accurately measure the strength of a brown-throated three-toed sloth.

https://www.sciencealert.com/sloths-are-stronger-on-their-left-side-and-scientists-have-no-idea-why

Slow, but surely strong: Sloths have twice the grip strength of humans, other primates.

https://studyfinds.org/sloths-grip-strength/

[Piney]

I'm half sloth ???? 

 

@acute Why didn't you tell me??????? 

[+Hammerclaw]

11 hours ago, Piney said:

I'm half sloth ???? 

 

@acute Why didn't you tell me??????? 

You should have switched hands. 

[Piney]

23 minutes ago, Hammerclaw said:

You should have switched hands. 

It wouldn't work. My right hand was shot in half.