The three-toed sloth, also known as the brown-throated or three-fingered sloth, spends most of its life hanging upside down in the rainforest canopy, moving so slowly that algae actually grows on its fur, helping it blend into the greenery. They sleep most of the day, but I caught this guy up and at it. Well, sort of. Nikon Z8 with Nikkor 500mm PF lens, ISO 220, f/5.6 at 1/125th of a second.
That’s quite a shot! I’m not sure why it has taken me so long looking at similar sloth images to imagine the sound they could make by slowly scraping a blackboard with their three fingernails!
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The three-toed sloth, also known as the brown-throated or three-fingered sloth, spends most of its life hanging upside down in the rainforest canopy, moving so slowly that algae actually grows on its fur, helping it blend into the greenery. They sleep most of the day, but I caught this guy up and at it. Well, sort of. Nikon Z8 with Nikkor 500mm PF lens, ISO 220, f/5.6 at 1/125th of a second.
That’s quite a shot! I’m not sure why it has taken me so long looking at similar sloth images to imagine the sound they could make by slowly scraping a blackboard with their three fingernails!
Ha, yes, those are some long nails.
Looks like it grew in place. Nice shot.
Thanks Michael. That’s sort of the way they live as algae grows over the mostly inactive bodies.
Oh, to be a sloth! We always wish that life would sloooowww doooown.
I hear you there.