Okay. Don't smile for the camera

Brown-throated three toed sloth near Mt. Arenal in Costa Rica. You'd think that an animal that barely moves would be easy to photograph, but no. Sloths live up high in treetops. Usually they appear as a ball around a tree branch to the naked eye. This photograph was shot with a 300 mm lens and blown up. The leaves ensure that they are in mottled light and unless you catch them feeding, they don't look up. I have a few moving sloth shots that I will post later, but I just got lucky for those.

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