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Pale-throated three-toed sloth
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| Photo Information |
Copyright: Yvonne Becker (smash2707)
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| Genre: Animals |
| Medium: Color |
| Date Taken: 2007-04-01 |
| Categories: Mammals |
| Camera: Canon Powershot S3 IS |
| Exposure: f/3.5, 1/250 seconds |
| More Photo Info: [view] |
| Photo Version: Original Version |
| Date Submitted: 2007-04-03 16:16 |
| Viewed: 1164 |
| Points: 6 |
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| [Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note |
I saw a pale-throated three-toed sloth (Bradypus tridactylus) on a tree and after a while a noticed she had a baby on her shoulder, which is what you can see here. The fur on the lower right corner is the back of the mom. I wasn't able to get a good shot where both of them were looking at me, and it is hard to identify the small one when you see them together.
"The Pale-throated Three-toed Sloth (Bradypus tridactylus) is a three-toed sloth that inhabits tropical rainforests from southern Central America to north-eastern Argentina. This sloth lives high in the canopy.
It has almost no tail or external ears, and its head is slightly rounded with a blunt nose. The body is covered with long and coarse hair. Very small green algae sometimes live mutualistically in the pits of the hair, which gives the sloth an overall greenish appearance that serves as camouflage. Male sloths have a bright yellow or orange patch on the back. The females have two mammae in the chest region. The three-toed sloth is armed with long, compressed, arched, hollowed claws, of which the middle claw is the largest.
Bradypus tridactylus grows to a length of between 1.5 and 2.5 ft. The limbs are long and weak, with anterior extremities that are nearly double the length of the posterior. The three-toed sloth has 9 neck vertebrae, giving it extreme flexibility.
The three-toed sloth can hang so securely with its hooklike claws that it even falls asleep in this position. A sloth may even stay suspended in the trees for some time after it dies.
The sloths have a gestation period of 6 months, usually giving birth to a single infant. After the birth the young animal depends on its mother to carry it for up to nine months, although it is weaned on to leaves after 1 month.
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Superorder: Xenarthra
Order: Pilosa
Suborder: Folivora
Family: Bradypodidae
Genus: Bradypus
Species: B. tridactylus"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pale-throated_three-toed_sloth
I cropped the shot, increased sharpness and contrast and resized |
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Hola Yvonne,
Me gusta ese punto de vista inferior, le da una perspectiva algo extraña al perezoso. tal vez cortada un poco de más, me parece por la definición, pero de todos modos es interesante, al igual que la nota con la que la acompañas.
Saludos desde Argentina
Hernán
Hola Yvonne,
Muy buena esta foto de la pereza!
Yo la he estado buscando por el parque hace tiempo y finalmente la conseguiste tú.
Interesante el punto de vista de abajo hacia arriba, y buenos los detalles captados en el animal.
Me gusta mucho el contraste de color con el fondo del follaje verde, eso hace a la imagen muy rica visualmente.
Felicitaciones y gracias por compartir la foto.
Un gran saludo,
JM
- SkyF
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(8127) - [2007-04-04 8:03]
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Hi Yvonne,
not easy to catch them awake, you must have had a lot of patience ;-).
Very nice shot, the details are nice and sharp and the colors are vivid. The POV and angle almost gives this slow guy some movement.
Very well done.
Sky
