- In all honesty, I did make up this sloth speak
right on the spot.
But, watch the results that it got.
Awe!
Sloth kiss!
♪ Fire ♪
♪ The fire on the mountain ♪
♪ Woo ♪
- What's going on, Coyote Pack, and welcome back
to base camp.
Or not.
- New set day.
Get excited.
- New set, well, I mean, it's not exactly 101 BK,
our favorite restaurant in Columbus, Ohio, is it Mario?
- Nope.
(knocks on wall)
Is that fake wood?
- Mario, it's a prop.
- No.
No those are wood stickers that we put on the drywall.
- Oh. Okay.
- And these are lanterns.
- We try so hard to build a set and you guys just
give away the movie magic.
- That's not fire on the mountain, guys.
That's a fake flame in a lantern.
But, but, fear not.
This is the first stage of our new base camp set.
We thought it would be really cool if we showed
everybody the build out of this location.
- Yeah.
We're just getting started, and we could really
use some more props.
- Right. - Okay.
- And stuff. - Maybe, like fan art?
- Oh, that would be cool.
- I like this.
- We are going to be putting in some shelves that are
going to house some of the artifacts and trinkets
that we found on location, but we have a lot of
Coyote Pack members writing and saying,
"Where can we send fan mail and fan art?
"And fan," I don't know.
- Snakes?
- No, no snakes. - No, Mario, no.
- No snakes. - No live animals, please.
- Snakes on a Plane did not work, trust me.
Snakes in the mailbox also is not going to work.
But if you read in the video description of this video,
we'll give you guys the address of where you can send
fan mail, and you never know.
Your art might end up
on the walls of the base camp set.
- That'd be cool.
Maybe each base camp we can
feature a new art.
- That'd be cool.
I know you guys are going to send
tons of stuff and not everything's going to make it.
But the coolest stuff we'll have little
hanging ceremonies and stuff.
- This is awesome.
I mean I like that.
That's really good.
I also saw there was some comments that people wanted
us to actually do some base camps on a real campsite.
- Oh!
- So you might able to show off some
of your fire building skills.
- I got some mad fire building skills and summer
is here which means campfire time is here,
which means it's time to make some s'mores.
I think a base camp episode about making s'mores,
maybe in Montana this summer?
- Oh, sounds good. - Could be pretty cool.
- Sounds pretty awesome.
- Alright.
I think it's time to dive into the video.
Now we have shown you guys a sting episode
which you asked for, the Harvester Ant stings.
Then we did an epic bite episode with the
giant alligator snapping turtle chomp.
But people have been asking for something cute.
- Okay. - Got anything cute, guys?
- Uh, I can think of a couple things, but we
have to narrow that down.
- Okay, let's pick something cute from Costa Rica.
Any guesses?
- Oh, we already did the ocelot on Base Camp.
Oh, I think I know Mario.
It's got three or--
- Oh.
Is it really slow?
- It is really slow.
- Is it really cute?
- It is super cute.
- Can we say its name on three?
- Let's do it.
- [Together] One, two, three.
B-rad-- - The baby sloth.
Arguably, the cutest creature that has ever
been featured anywhere on any show in all of human history.
- I agree.
- Maybe, yeah.
- You know what's interesting is actually the B-rad sloth
video is our most watched video of all time.
- [Mario] Really?
- By a mile.
- But not on YouTube?
- No, no, no.
But if you include the Facebook views, the YouTube views,
and all the news and press views across the world,
this video has been viewed over a 100,000,000 times.
- Wow. - Yeah.
- Pretty cool that that many people love sloths
as much as we do.
Now there is a whole system for how you rate cuteness,
so we'll get into that in a second.
But if you are ready, let's dive into this video
and take a look at how we made B-rad the baby sloth
the cutest and most famous sloth ever.
Ready? - Alright, ready?
Here we go.
- Let's do it. - Sloth speed.
- No, no, no, faster than that.
They're going to click off the video.
- Okay.
- What's going on Coyote Pack?
- [Mario] I don't know, what's going on?
- And we're in Costa Rica filming episodes
in a location called Kids--
Yes.
Kids Saving the Rainforest.
Love these guys.
It is actually kids saving the rainforest.
- [Mark] Hi Jennifer, Chip.
- [Mario] There he is.
Oh buddy.
- [Coyote] Oh man, I forgot how tiny he was.
- Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls,
say hello to B-rad.
Yes, there he is!
Cuteness overload.
I think that was where we actually got the thumbnail.
- [Mark] Yeah.
- Oh, eating a leaf.
Selfie with a sloth.
Yeah, selfie with a sloth.
Who doesn't want one of those right?
And the island location animation begins.
Man, I am so excited to be revisiting B-rad.
Costa Rica, here we go.
Oh buddy, there he is.
Now B-rad is a baby three--
- [Mario] So tiny.
- [Coyote] Obviously, he's a baby.
Oh, hi three.
Boom.
What's really interesting about these creatures is
they're called three sloths, but actually
the front feet are--
I never realized, back it just
a tiny bit there.
I never realized the scientific name was Bradypus.
That's kind of weird isn't it?
- Or is it Brad a pus?
- Is it Brad a pus?
I don't know.
Well let's talk about sloths and their toes for a second,
because B-rad is a baby three-toed sloth.
- [Mark] There we go.
There's a good shot of him.
- But there are other toed sloths too, right?
- Yeah.
You know, it's not that simple,
between three toes and two-toed sloths.
- Sounds simple enough.
Three or two.
- Sure. - I can count.
- What if I were to tell you that they all have three toes?
- [Mark] What?
- You're pulling my toe.
- No sir.
So, in fact, the difference lies in the forelimbs, right?
So we would call these fingers?
- I call these hands.
- Claws.
- I see which way you're going.
So the feet have three.
- Yes.
The feet have three and the difference lies
in their claws or in their fingers.
- Okay.
- But there are other differences too?
- Absolutely.
But in terms of their namesake,
it maybe should be called three fingered sloth?
- Or two fingered sloths?
- Or two fingered sloths.
- Right, 'cause technically these are fingers not toes,
and they all have three toes, but only the
three toed have three fingers and the two toed
have two fingers, so it should be
two fingered and three fingered sloth.
- Yeah.
- You should write a paper about this
and then rewrite science.
- Sure.
- I'm confused.
Let's go back to B-rad.
- Yeah, B-rad's just super cute.
Let's get back into this.
Have three claws to help them climb around--
Oh buddy.
Now this is actually B-rad hanging out
on a stuffed animal plushed sloth.
It's a baby sloth, a real sloth,
on a cute fake sloth.
That's like the universe would implode from all--
- [Mark] All kinds of slothness.
- Stay down here--
- [Mario] Now there's a reason why B-rad
is on that sloth right?
- [Coyote] Right.
- So that's kind of like it's nursery mom
in a sense, because B-rad is a rescue.
And in the wild, they will ride on top
of the mom, so that's for B-rad's security
to make it feel comfortable.
- That's sadly B-rad lost his mom,
and that's why he's at Kids Saving the Rainforest
or I should say was.
B-rad has been released back into the wild at this point,
but yes, it's very important for him to still feel like
he has that nurturing mother with him.
- And you'll notice too, you never remove B-rad
from his nurture sloth.
- No.
- You kept him on there, very important
that we don't removed these sloths
from their comfort zone.
- Yep. - Exactly.
- While we're working with them.
It's actually pretty rare to be
able to do something like that.
You can't just go to Costa Rica
and hold a sloth like B-rad.
It's pretty rare that--
- [Coyote] Oh wait.
Pause, pause, with the tongue.
Look at this.
- Let me see if I can get.
- Yes. - Yeah.
- Look at that face.
Now so we understand the ranking
of cuteness, I gotta break this down.
- Is this official?
- This is an official breakdown.
- Okay.
- I have a good friend that came up
with a way to rank cuteness
based on the button scale, right.
- Button scale?
- Buttons of cuteness are what rank things
as being cute.
So one a scale of one to 10,
so let's say a baby snapping turtle
is three buttons of cuteness right.
Still a lot of scales and claws and buggy eyes,
but it's pretty cute for a baby.
Then you have a Golden Retriever puppy,
maybe seven buttons of cuteness.
B-rad ranks at 11 buttons of cuteness.
- Whoa.
- Off the scales.
That's how cute he is.
- Off the scales.
- Well I see Mario has some buttons
on his vest.
Where does he rank
on the scale? - Oh yeah man.
One, two, three, four, five,
- [Mark] Since we're talking about buttons.
- It does not matter how many buttons Mario
ever manages to collect.
You could be Benjamin Button for all I care,
- What?
- But you can never have enough buttons
to out cute B-rad.
- In all fairness, that's fine.
He is way cuter than me.
- But your beard kinda has some similar
look to its coat.
- Yeah. - What if I--
- [Mark] Maybe you're related.
- What if I just move really slowly.
- I feel like you could probably spend
the rest of your life as a sloth,
but we need you as a wildlife biologist
right now, and help us analyze this video,
so let's get back to human speed and keep watching.
Oh buddy.
I miss him.
Raccoon looking mask on the face and--
He looks like, because he's so young, he's just
exploring his environment.
He's like, "Where am I?
"Who are these people in these cameras?
"I am B-rad the baby sloth"
- [Mario] Sloths are so unique
because of the way they move.
You almost have to rub your eyes
to make sure it was real.
- [Coyote] Yeah.
- [Mark] When we were there, I just remember
being in awe like this can't be alive.
- [Coyote] Well he's like a puppet or an animatronic.
I mean the late great Jim Hensen probably took so
much inspiration from this sloth in creating
creatures for his muppet movie.
- [Mario] Absolutely.
- [Mark] But their mannerisms are so human like too.
Look at the way like scratch, scratch, right there.
You can really relate to sloths because of that.
- [Coyote] Right.
- [Mark] Checking things out.
- [Coyote] I don't know, I'm not that itchy.
Do you have an itchy problem that we don't know about?
- [Mark] You never have an itch?
- [Coyote] No, never, never.
- [Mark] What's that?
- [Coyote] That's sloth speak right there.
- [Mario] Are you communicating?
- [Mark] Yeah.
Hold on, let's hear it again, I think you do
it one more time. (sloth squeaks)
- [Coyote] Yeah, there you go.
- I don't think I ever-- - Can you translate that?
What were you talking about?
- You're not just born with that skill guys.
I'm telling you, this is something that literally
takes years of practice.
Bear with me for a second, ready?
Eeeeee.
- What are you saying?
- Well what you have to do is actually spend
years in the rainforest, which I did in preparation
for this video. - Really?
- I knew that at one point in time
I might have the opportunity to work
with and speak with the cutest baby
sloth in the world,
so I just spent months in the Costa Rican rainforest
living amongst the animals, absorbing the environment and
learning how to speak their language.
- Literally none of that is true.
- Yeah, well that's open for interpretation.
Depending on whether or not you
believe my elaborate stories,
but no in all honestly, I did make up this sloth speak
right on spot, but watch the results that it got.
(sloth squeaks)
- [All] Awe.
- [Mark] Sloth kiss.
- [Coyote] Sloth kiss, mid-take.
That's when you don't cut the cameras guys.
- [Mark] Now Mario, what kind of leaf is that?
Is that a tree star?
- [Mario] No.
That's a Cecropia leaf.
- [Mark] Really, 'cause it kind of looks
like a tree star from The Land Before Time.
- [Coyote] Yeah.
I definitely think that Littlefoot and Petrie
were eating up on these leaves.
- [Mario] Sure, but it's also actually B-rad's
favorite food item.
Sloth's love the Cecropia plant.
- Other than nipple milk.
Mama sloth nipple milk.
- Yeah.
- 'Cause he's in the process of weaning, right,
from milk to leaves.
- Is that a real thing?
- Yeah, nipple milk.
Well there's milk that comes out of a bottle
or milk that comes out of the nipple
of a mother sloth.
- I just don't know how to respond to that.
(laughs)
- It's just science guys,
but he's in the transition period
of eating leaves which is important.
(laughing) Gotta wean.
What, you gotta wean off of the sloth nipple
at some point right?
- Let's get back to the leaves.
(laughing)
- Oh look at that leaf.
Is he even eating it?
I think he's just crumpling it up.
- I don't know, Mario you tell me,
do the sloth, do they have teeth at this point?
'Cause it doesn't really look like there's any teeth marks.
- No, he was barely, he was kind of munching it up.
So Coyote's right.
You know, B-rad is in that weaning stage, so it's
still actually taking milk as well,
but eventually when, (laughs).
- There is a method to my madness.
It's fair, it's a fair statement.
But, yeah, that's good to note
that sloths, once their teeth do grow in,
they're blunt, they're rounded.
It's not like dog teeth or ocelot teeth.
They grind their food up.
- Yeah, kind of peg-like.
- They're herbivores right, so herbivores don't
require canines, so B-rad was definitely taking
its time to eat that leaf,
just slowly munching it up.
- [Mark] We actually had to cut this way down.
I think it took almost an hour for that--
- [Coyote] Oh, what are you doing Coyote?
You don't touch his little nubbin.
- [Mark] A what?
- That's his nubbin, that's his tail nubbin.
- A tail nubbin?
- Yeah back up to that shot.
- Yeah.
- Oh get it back a little bit further.
Oh there it is.
Oh buddy.
- Oh there you go. - That's his tail.
I don't want anybody to think it's anything else.
It's technically called,
and this is the scientific term,
a tail nubbin. - Sure.
- Which if you really want to break it down
on a sloth that's 11 buttons of cuteness,
this may push 15 buttons of cuteness.
The tail nubbin of a baby sloth.
But has a purpose doesn't it?
- Sure, it may be cute, but everything
in nature has a function.
- Right.
- And that little nub actually helps
that animal poop.
- Whoa, I didn't expect you to say that.
- Alright, so once a week, sloth will actually
climb down the tree, find a little spot
on the floor, on the forest floor,
and use that little nub to dig a hole
in the soil and then they deposit their poop.
- So you're telling me that the tail nubbin
is also a turd trowel.
- Sure, if you want to call it that.
- What? - A turd trowel.
- Man, you're just on a roll today.
- Something that you use to dig up a hole
and put a turd in.
- Sure.
- So you tell me the tail nubbin double
functions as a turd trowel.
Does he bury the turd back up afterwards
like a good camper?
- Possibly, yeah.
- Well you know that when you're out camping,
if you're going to poop in the woods, guys,
you always bury the turd.
You don't just poop and then leave it there.
- All right.
Let's get back to the video.
- Well we're learning here.
It's all science.
It's so cute though.
- [Mark] Did you wash your hands after touching
the turd trowel?
- [Coyote] No, I was eating trail mix after this.
I didn't know he was using it to dig a poop hole.
Eats leaves and waits another seven days
before it makes its next number two.
That was a pretty smart line there.
Before it makes its next number two.
It says, "Don't bug me.
"I'm eating my salad."
He kind of reminds me a little of
Oscar the Grouch, from Sesame Street.
Now he wasn't grouchy, but just like his look,
the shape of his face.
- [Mark] Oh, gotta itch.
- Well what's cool about that,
and that's it's probably scientifically accurate,
is that sloths oftentimes have a lot of little
micro-organisms and buggy-type creatures
living in their fur.
- [Mario] Yeah, that's correct.
They have almost like a symbiosis between
like moths and all types of algae
that actually cling to their fur.
- You can meet Mark.
We could all be buddies.
See I'm trying to coax him to come
home with us.
But I don't think you ever want to put a sloth
in your overnight bag.
- [Mark] Oh no.
Yeah, they don't like that.
- No smuggling sloths guys.
And it is sad that sometimes these babies
fall out of the tree and--
- [Mark] These are definitely not good pets,
just so we're clear too.
- [Coyote] No.
- [Mark] Sloth are not captive species.
- [Coyote] We cannot stress that enough.
The professionals working with Kids Saving the Rainforest
work so incredibly hard and tirelessly for hours.
These sloths are in such a regimented schedule
when it comes to their food and the care that need
and it's, no guys, sloth does not make a good pet.
- [Mark] I think the sloth mother when they're
this age have to almost be with them 24 hours.
- [Mario] Yep.
- [Mark] And to sleep in the same room as they do.
- Yep.
Living the sloth life.
Yeah, living the sloth life, buddy.
There's that cute tongue again.
B-rad, the adorable three-toed sloth.
Oh buddy.
I'm Coyote Peterson.
Be brave and--
- [Mark] I don't know.
I don't know if I've ever been more distracted
watching one of these videos.
- [Coyote] I know, it's tough to not focus
on how cute he is.
We're trying to give you guys good narration
as to what was happening with filming this,
but it really wasn't a difficult,
oh, the sloth yawn.
Just when you thought it couldn't get any cuter, he yawns.
- [Mark] Oh and then you have double trouble.
- [Coyote] Oh boy, those two.
Woo.
Working at Alturas Wildlife Santuary with the two-toed
or two-fingered and three-fingered, however you want
to describe it, sloths that was pretty cool too.
- Looking back on that, you know,
I know when we filmed it we were in awe.
But now seeing it again, I mean, how rare
is something like that?
It's like a once in a lifetime experience.
- Absolutely.
- And what' really neat, is that B-rad right now
is probably out in the wild, hanging out on the tree,
munching on some plants.
- Yeah. - Yeah.
- And that's one of the really cool success stories
that we experiences at Kids Saving the Rainforest,
an animal that was rehabilitated and then released
back into its natural environment.
Which is super cool. - All thanks
to Kids Saving the Rainforest.
I also heard through the grapevine that
we've actually had some Coyote Pack members
volunteer at Kids Saving the Rainforest
because of this video.
- Oh nice.
- Cool. - That's awesome.
- So that means, they can go and volunteer there right now?
- Oh yeah, they're still accepting volunteers year round.
We'll put a link in the description, so if anyone
out there is interested in visiting Costa Rica
and giving a helping hand to some baby sloths--
- Yeah. - Check them out.
- Totally, and remember guys, it's not just volunteering
that helps these animals.
There's also the opportunity to make a donation
to help the people that are helping these animals
So again, there will be a link in the video description
and you guys can get involved and help more sloths
and skunks and tanmanduas, and all the animals
of the rainforest.
- Yeah, every little bit helps for sure.
- Yeah. - Awesome.
- All right guys, I think that about does it
for this video.
Stay tuned for more Base Camp episodes coming
and more epic adventures out in the wilderness,
including a Dragon Tails episode where I really take,
Oop, I don't want to show you too much yet,
a super bad snapping turtle bite.
I'm Coyote Peterson.
- I'm Mark Vins.
- And Mario Aldecoa.
- Be brave--
- [Both] Stay wild.
- We'll see you on the next Base Camp adventure.
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