It's Slothurday!

Lucy Cooke has just premiered an episode of the aptly named The Cute Show on a Costa Rican sloth sanctuary.

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Anonymous

I was recently in Cost Rica and was warned against this Sloth conservatory. It seems it’s expensive and not actually a rescue center but a tourist trap. This is the opinions of the locals we met in Puerto Viejo.

Nearby though, is the Jaguar Rescue Center where they have rescued Sloths, Snakes and Monkeys too.

http://jaguarrescue.com/
kpkpkp

Happy Sloth is Happy!
gravytop

Fun fact: sloths are not only the cutest animals on earth, they’re also maybe the most delicious.
Felton

Better than a Slothurday morning cartoon!
GauchoAmigo

The sloth is my spirit animal.
Lookforthewoman

The amount of spam this place is getting since the submitterator went live is a bit insane.

Also, sloths are the best animal ever, pshaw on cardinal sins!
Thad E Ginataom

Can we PLEASE have a sloth day every week?

No, better still… make every day a sloth day!
Goorpy

Does the video play very weird for anyone else?

I get a green frame flashing up intermittently, and there are sections that _look_ like really fast cuts back and forth between two pieces of video, but I don’t think it’s supposed to be doing that.

If that’s intentional, it’s was a really bad editing choice — it makes it very hard to watch.
coldspell

This sloth rescue is also a bed and breakfast! I’ve stayed there. I recommend it. One of the old timer sloths hangs out on her own porch swing all day (and night). Adorable!
Kritch

My girlfriend and I were at Aviarios Del Caribe in May. Sloths are good. I let one of them bite me and now I have sloth powers. mmm sleeping.
- coverandwait
  
  Also, you only have to poop once a week. Useful!
Anonymous

A must read: Cry of the Sloth
by Sam Savage

It’s got some sloths in it, but the whole book isn’t about sloths. But sloths get mentioned. Anyway.
Anonymous

http://dump.fm/m/slothgoth
Francois Comeau-Lapointe

Amazing creature :)

For those interested, sloths’ natural environnement is being destroyed at a rate of 5% per year. You do the math. In 20 years they’ll be entirely gone, except in zoos and animal parks. Oh, that rate is increasing as well (though less in recent years). Meh!

-FranÃ§ois Comeau-Lapointe
- wrybread
  
  I’d sign my name after my posts too if I had a name like FranÃ§ois Comeau-Lapointe.
- Anonymous
  
  Actually there will still be 35% of their territory left at that rate. (.95^20). But point taken.