:( sad face, my sloth days are numbered.

Time here has gone so fast.  My two weeks are almost up.  This is such a great place for taking photos.  As well as the fact you can never take enough pictures of sloths because they are so cute the sanctuary is just abundant with photo opportunities.  The flowers, trees and the lagoon.  The birds, crabs, lizards, bugs, iguanas, nests of baby humming birds and howler monkeys.  The place is just fantastic.

Sloths, like a lot of animals, have their own personality.  Some are love-junkies and always looking to climb all over you.  Some love a bit of attention and being hand-fed.  Some come running (or the sloth-climbing version) when they see food.  Some just give you a dirty look and pull the towel up over their head.  So pretty quickly you get your favourites.

I like Jasper and Tuffy.  Jasper is a hungry boy who is always hanging off the door before you even get there with his food.  Tuffy is in the last cage in the row and just looks at you with big sad eyes because he's had to wait til last again.  Sometimes I take him his first and he just looks at you all confused like 'what the hell?' 

Piphany and Zoe are cute, they're really light, almost white in colour and all smiley.  And the little brady's (the 3-toed sloths) are cute.  They come and try and crawl all over you as soon as you open the door of the cage.

Of the baby's I love Poco and Rolo.  Poco looks like a little fluffy possum.  Roly-bear looks like a tiny bear and is so feisty.  He loves running around on the jungle gym and eating dirt.  He also doesn't like sharing so will bite anyone who gets put on the jungle gym with him.  The first time I had him at baby time he got shitty because I took him off the jungle gym, so he bit me on the arm.  It was pretty funny. He hasn't bit me again yet, but not through lack of trying!

I've just got back from being taken to the incubator room.  Those babies are so so tiny.  Like the size of your hand.  Baby sloths are born fully formed with hair, claws everything.  Just damn tiny.