PEREZOSO!

spanish word of the day is "perezoso," which is the word for sloth.

yesterday i saw my first LIVE sloth in La Selva! 2 weeks ago i had gone hiking and stumbled across a less than live sloth on the trail at the back of the property. a bit dissappointing, because i was hoping my first sloth would be alive... but yesterday a mother sloth had come down from the tree with her baby near the lab clearing! sloths can't crap in the trees, the have to come down to the ground (which makes no evolutionary sense, but oh well). so mama had taken baby down to do its buisness before climbing back up into the canopy. you can see the fur is green from algae growing in it. these are three-toed sloths. there are also two-toed sloths here, but i have yet to see one.