Esther's photos with the keyword: toed

Male Brown throated three toed sloth - Parque Nacional Manuel Antonio, Costa Rica. The brown throated tree sloth is primarily aboreal, returning to the ground once a week to defecate in a hole that it digs with its tail. It has a slow metabolism and spends much of its time hanging upside down from the trees. Its front legs are longer than its hind legs. Its outer layer of fur is very coarse and stiff and overlays a much softer layer of dense under-fur. The hairs of the outer layer of fur have numerous microscopic cracks across their surface in which algae lives. This accounts for the green tint when viewed up close. AIMG_0634

Male Brown throated three toed sloth - Parque Nacional Manuel Antonio, Costa Rica. The brown throated tree sloth is primarily aboreal, returning to the ground once a week to defecate in a hole that it digs with its tail. It has a slow metabolism and spends much of its time hanging upside down from the trees. Its front legs are longer than its hind legs. Its outer layer of fur is very coarse and stiff and overlays a much softer layer of dense under-fur. The hairs of the outer layer of fur have numerous microscopic cracks across their surface in which algae lives. This accounts for the green tint when viewed up close. AIMG_0622

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. AxMG_2089