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More sloths, Because Who Can Resist
Here are two more female sloths that I saw in Monteverde at a sanctuary. In the wild we probably wouldn't see two sloths cuddling close like these two. If you zoom in on the photo, you can see the sleepy eye of the front sloth, and right above her head is the even sleepier eye of the second one. They have been raised together at the refuge and so they're close in a way they wouldn't be in the wild. In the Power Rising series, Roebor, the dragonpanther, has flaming blue eyes unlike these. Sloths have two stomachs, I think the guide said, and digest their food veeeerrrry slowly, so that they come down from the trees to poop only once a week. Shannon has the opposite problem; her food is metabolizing so fast she fights a losing battle keeping enough food in her. In the wild we also would rarely see sloths trying to catch some shut eye with their heads so exposed. Instead they tuck them in, probably for protection. But at the sanctuary, they feel quite comfy stretching right out. Humans are generally lucky like that, too. The couch sounds good right about now.
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