George Lucas was here! Chewbaca is a giant three-toed
sloth! They are freakishly slow moving with long humanoid
arms. They would almost be cuddly if it weren't for the
three claws at the end of each of their limbs. I was in
a motorized canoe when I came upon this fellow. I was
within a few feet of him. His head rotated ever-so-slowly
and he looked at me quizzically as if to say, Heeeeeey......
yoooouuu're...... noooooooot.... frooooooooom .....arooouuuund....
heeeeeeeeeeerre..... aaaaaaaaare...... yooooooouuuuuuuu??????
He pulled himself up into a tree like Disney Animatronics
on one tenth speed!
I got some photos previously of the smaller variety, different
colored, two-toed sloth in Costa Rica. He was so mellow
I had to wake him up several times just to get him to
make eye contact with the camera.(costa
rica page)
The other fauna I found fascinating were fluorescent frogs.
I also found and be-friended a fellow studying them. Dendrobates
Pumilio. The frog, not the fellow. The guy is known locally
as Mark, the jungle boy. The frog is known commonly as
the strawberry dart poison frog and comes in a variety
of shades, with and without black spots.
The jungle boy is a graduate student working under the
auspices of the Smithsonian Institute researching communication
between frogs. I traded him frog fotos for frog fonics.
If your computer and my computer are both working, you
should be hearing a digital sound track of strawberry
dart poison frogs right now!
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