Think Sloths are Cute? How about When They Crawl into a Latrine and Eat Your Poop

Sloths are usually depicted as cute, fuzzy animals that spend lazy days lounging around trees eating leaves." The first observation of the unusual feeding habit took place on 3 November 2001. At around 2000, a sloth was detected hanging underneath the wooden bars of our latrine.
      Sloths are arboreal neotropical folivores, feeding selectively on the leaves from a small number of woody plants species(montgomery and sunquist, 1978;queiroz, 1995;chiarello, 1998;urbani and bosque 2007).
      Since this first observation, we obtained more than 25 additional records of sloths visiting and feeding in the latrine until 2007 when the latrine was fenced with wire mesh. These records include single individuals as well as mothers with a baby(figs 1-3). When the animals emerged from the latrine they were usually completely moistened. All observation took place when it was dark, which is in pattern of two-toed sloths(sunquist and montgomery 1973) and many when it was wet or rainy.

Sumber: Discover magazine March 2014