We visited the Vancouver Aquarium recently to visit our old friend the tropical sloth (I don't think it has a name?). Took awhile to spot it, since it was hiding way up high among the tree blossoms. I tried to get the best photo I could... waited and waited, and then it occurred to me that.. oh yah, it's a sloth... it's going to take forever to move and turn to even face me. So short of poking it with a stick (which is not allowed of course), I would have had to wait a long long time in that tropical heat. So this is the resulting photo... a mysterious fur ball in some branches... I am not even sure which side is the head... I think the top?
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
it's a sloth, if you're wondering
We visited the Vancouver Aquarium recently to visit our old friend the tropical sloth (I don't think it has a name?). Took awhile to spot it, since it was hiding way up high among the tree blossoms. I tried to get the best photo I could... waited and waited, and then it occurred to me that.. oh yah, it's a sloth... it's going to take forever to move and turn to even face me. So short of poking it with a stick (which is not allowed of course), I would have had to wait a long long time in that tropical heat. So this is the resulting photo... a mysterious fur ball in some branches... I am not even sure which side is the head... I think the top?
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Cool photo, even if you're not sure where it's head is! LOL!
Great picture! I went to the Indianapolis zoo yesterday and saw one as well! So cool!
Neat photo!
i love watching sloths, even if they don't do much. they're pretty rare to find at zoos in my experience though... yet another reason i want to go to vancouver.
Neat, Valerie.
I really like sloths, they know how to relax and take life slowly.
I am so loving the fuzzy hairball! xoxo
I live in MN and there is one at the Como Conservatory...I think. It might be fake, it really NEVER EVER moves!
You are always introducing me to new animals. I love it!
He was a little camera shy I think.
That is very interesting, never seen one before.
I always do the same thing at zoo, try to direct the animals so I can take the perfect shot. Yeah, it never happens, despite my best coaxing. :-)
They have a sloth in the Denver zoo that's not even in a cage, it just has a room that it lives in because everyone knows its not going anywhere. It's my favorite exhibit.
oh, i want one!! really any animal with fur and tail is cute to me . . . great photo, no face needed!
Aw, I love sloths. :)
Oh wow neat photo :)
There's something about that whole paragraph that cracks me up; the cute resident sloth, the waiting for it to move and the poking it with a stick... Love sloths.
Sllloth!!! I want to touch one so bad. I heard they are actually pretty viscous (from an unreliable source of a 9 year old)...Or was that a koala bear? One of the two :)
Aww...love it. My husband held a sloth in Peru last year. He's very slow (not mentally or anything, just...in general, hahaa) and they became good friends for 5min.
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