Enter the sloth!

A couple of weeks back, TYG and I went to a display of live animals at the Raleigh Museum of Science and Nature. The highlight of which was a two-toed sloth.

I’ve seen sloths in museums before, but mostly they hang around doing little. Which is fine, they’re not there to entertain me. This one though? When she realized lunch was on the way, she got lively.

The woman feeding her eventually got the sloth to stretch into the “spider-man” pose.

Here are a few more animals from the same display.

There’s also this strange diorama figure. A friend of mine suggested the bird the man was holding was to make the fledglings think they were dealing with a mama bird. Sounds plausible.

One of the great things about moving up here is that there’s so much to do, more than we can ever get around to. Coolness.