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Sloth on a Wire

amazondk

By amazondk
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amazondk Grand Master

amazondk

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I was driving back to my office yesterday on a road that skirts the city and noticed the fellow in the pictures hanging from the wires between power poles. I guess he knew enough to stay with the telephone cables and stay away from the power line. Sloths are pretty common around these parts and every once and a while pop up around town.

dk

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Don Kittelson

 

LIFE ON THE RIO NEGRO

03° 06' 07'' South 60° 01' 30'' West

Altitude 92 Meters / 308 feet above sea level

1,500 kms / 932 miles to the mouth of the Amazon River

 

Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil - A Cidade da Floresta

Where the world´s largest Tropical Rainforest embraces the Greatest Rivers in the World. .

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Click here to visit Amazonas

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peachy Grand Master

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He is just so gorgeous, I am glad I dont live there !! I would be rescuing them by the handful.

Peachy

I came. I saw. I purchased

 

 

27.35 south.

Warm subtropical, with occasional frosts.

Jeff in St Pete Grand Master

Jeff in St Pete

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Great photos Don! I've seen them hanging from the wires also, it always makes me nervous. A couple times I've had to stop the car while one crossed the road. It takes a very long time for them to get across, it seems like they are even slower on the ground than they are in the trees!

Here is one of my favorite Sloth photos. This one hangs out in the Mango tree next to the pool.

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Formerly Jeff in Costa Rica
 

amazondk Grand Master

amazondk

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Peachy,

I have a scar on my left wrist area from where a sloth scraped me years ago while rescuing him from the middle of the road. I got a stick and held it our for him to grab and in an instant after he grabbed it his claw grazed my wrist. I was surprised at how fast that happened. They are not very fast, but move faster than I anticipated.

Jeff,

Yours has that same closed eye look as the one in my picture.

dk

Don Kittelson

 

LIFE ON THE RIO NEGRO

03° 06' 07'' South 60° 01' 30'' West

Altitude 92 Meters / 308 feet above sea level

1,500 kms / 932 miles to the mouth of the Amazon River

 

Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil - A Cidade da Floresta

Where the world´s largest Tropical Rainforest embraces the Greatest Rivers in the World. .

82331.gif

 

Click here to visit Amazonas

amazonas2.jpg

Kim Grand Master

Kim

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Great photos! Interesting pattern of fur growth from hanging upside down all the time.

Kim Cyr

Between the beach and the bays, Point Loma, San Diego, California USA
and on a 300 year-old lava flow, Pahoa, Hawaii, 1/4 mile from the 2018 flow
All characters  in this work are fictitious. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

MattyB Grand Master

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I think they're fine with the power lines because they'd need to touch two lines to complete the circuit and they're probably spaced more than 6 feet apart. I read something interesting about sloths tendons in their arms and hands. When they hang the design of their tendons makes their hands clench more as opposed to forcing their hands open like ours. Maybe that was bats, now that I'm thinking of it. Nevermind, I'm either right or wrong I know that much.

Matt Bradford

"Manambe Lavaka"

Spring Valley, CA (8.5 miles inland from San Diego Bay)

10B on the hill (635 ft. elevation)

9B in the canyon (520 ft. elevation)

DoomsDave Grand Master

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fASCINATING!

oNE OF THE REASONS i LOVE THIS PLACE . . . .

Let's keep our forum fun and friendly.

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amazondk Grand Master

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This is one of two types of sloths that are found here. The other one is smaller and has fur that looks like it has lichens growing on it. They are a greayish almost green color. One of the sloths interesting behaviours is that they only deficate and urinate by coming down to the ground and digging a small hole and normally at the base of the same tree about once a week.

dk

Don Kittelson

 

LIFE ON THE RIO NEGRO

03° 06' 07'' South 60° 01' 30'' West

Altitude 92 Meters / 308 feet above sea level

1,500 kms / 932 miles to the mouth of the Amazon River

 

Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil - A Cidade da Floresta

Where the world´s largest Tropical Rainforest embraces the Greatest Rivers in the World. .

82331.gif

 

Click here to visit Amazonas

amazonas2.jpg

peachy Grand Master

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This is one of two types of sloths that are found here. The other one is smaller and has fur that looks like it has lichens growing on it. They are a greayish almost green color. One of the sloths interesting behaviours is that they only deficate and urinate by coming down to the ground and digging a small hole and normally at the base of the same tree about once a week.

dk

Wish we could train granny to do that

I came. I saw. I purchased

 

 

27.35 south.

Warm subtropical, with occasional frosts.

Jeff in St Pete Grand Master

Jeff in St Pete

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This is one of two types of sloths that are found here. The other one is smaller and has fur that looks like it has lichens growing on it. They are a greayish almost green color. One of the sloths interesting behaviours is that they only deficate and urinate by coming down to the ground and digging a small hole and normally at the base of the same tree about once a week.

dk

Wish we could train granny to do that

:lol:

Formerly Jeff in Costa Rica
 

Patrick Veteran

Patrick

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I guess he was just looking for some tasty waves and cool buds........ :P

Oakley, California

55 Miles E-NE of San Francisco, CA

Solid zone 9, I can expect at least one night in the mid to low twenties every year.

Hot, dry summers. Cold, wet winters.

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