About four days ago we returned from a week in Panama. While there we visited two different Smithsonian research centers in Panama City. The Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute studies sloths amongst other things. The day we were there, an ordinate number of the creatures were climbing around in a line of trees between the road and the beach. Their presence here (not even close to a forest), and in such high numbers was suspicious and as we counted sloth after sloth (some said they saw more than ten), we realized that the three-toed creatures must have been planted for our benefit. The experience was sullied but being able to examine the animals at such a close range was still neat. I want to share this article written by one of the researchers at the Institute about his experience working with Sloths in the wild (credit goes to Sarah for showing it to me, thanks!). http://scientistatwork.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/18/why-do-animals-sleep/?ref=science
Also, if you want to see some great pictures of sloths, my friend Justin has an album devoted to the ones we saw in Panama. I highly recommend it : http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=349914&id=612682362&l=12298ffbcb
Comments are welcome as always; more about Panama soon to come!
Your experience was sullied? :(
ReplyDeleteSurely you meant inordinate? I'm going to assume you weren't trying to describe the amount of sloths as the element of an ordered pair which represents the distance traveled parallel to the vertical axis (y-axis) of a two-dimensional Cartesian coordinate system, as opposed to the abscissa.
ReplyDeleteThis is probably why you will never amount to anything.
Keep working mate x