D-Tube Wednesday: wild Costa Rican sloth crawling around jungle

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Hi there my Steemit friends and followers!

Welcome to my D-Tube Wednesday series where I share my videos taken at interesting places that I have visited during my travels.

Today, I will take you to the beautiful Costa Rican jungle just outside of the town of Puerto Viejo on the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica where I experienced what can be only described as one of the most amazing and memorable wildlife encounters of my life.

So who did I meet (and film) here? The brown-throated sloth, one of the symbols of Costa Rica. The sloth usually only comes down from a tree once a week to defecate, so yeah, this guy was probably just about to do his business when I was taking the video (I am sorry about that buddy).

Now if you wonder what the black-orange patch on his back is, let me tell you what I was told by the guides in local national parks. It is a color marking that forms in adult males of this sloth species but the exact purpose of it remains unknown.

Here is a few more fun facts about sloths I learnt in Costa Rica:

• Sloths are very slow and clumsy on land but they are excellent swimmers.
• They spend most of the day sleeping.
• They can turn their head almost 360 degrees.
• They are related to anteaters and armadillos.
• They may remain hanging from tree even after death.

As you can see, the slowness of the sloth´s movement is remarkable and while it might add to the overall cuteness of this extraordinary creature, it is also what makes it so vulnerable, especially on the ground where the sloth has literally no chance to avoid an approaching car.

Therefore, it is always the driver who decides whether these defenseless furry guys make it safely to the other side of the road or not. So please drive responsibly and watch out for them (and for other animals too of course) when driving in Costa Rica ;)

Hopefully, your learnt something new about sloths in the post and fell in love with these awkward smiling furry bundles :)

I also hope you enjoyed the video. If you did, stay tuned for the next episode of my D-Tube Wednesday series. Thank you @dtube for allowing us to share our videos with the Steem community.

Note: I uploaded this video on D-Live during my early months on Steem but since this d-app left our blockchain and the videos uploaded there cannot be viewed anymore and since I really want to have this video on my blog, I uploaded it on D-Tube today.

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