Photo of the Week - 08/20/2006
This three-toed sloth doesn't seem bothered at all by the people about him in the plaza in Santa Cruz, Bolivia.
The world's slowest moving mammal, sloths are tree dwellers, carrying out most of their activities hanging upside down in trees. They eat, sleep, mate, give birth, and tend their young suspended over the ground. It takes them about two and half years to grow to full size, between one and a half and two and a half feet. Read more about the Sloths of South America.
Photo displayed with the kind permission of Ron Miller, author of Escape from the Happy Cannibal, an autobiographical account of his in-depth spiritual and cultural observations during his travels to over 80 countries on six continents.
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