The Siamese ground sloth is a rarity, and is found only in domestic households. Her natural habitat is a suburban bedroom, with occasional forays to sitting rooms and store-rooms. She makes her nest in heated cat-beds, but likes to sleep form time to time on human beds.
The Siamese ground sloth can find her own food, munching throughout the day on Z/D nuggets that grow in glass bowls, but also enjoys soft Z/D, a kind of disgusting paste found in tins. This the ground sloth likes to have placed before her on clean dishes.
Though blind, the Siamese ground sloth uses her whiskers, sense of smell and the blunt force of bumping into objects to find her way about, and intimidates other animals in her environment by hissing and growling. Few of her fellow creatures dare stand in her way.
While not for the faint of commitment, a Siamese ground sloth makes an excellent companion, becoming attached to her particular human after several years of acquaintance. Requiring a high degree of care, due to her sightlessness and often contrary nature, the ground sloth rewards affection with affection, and demonstrates this by purring contentedly while lying on a human’s chest.
For more information on the Siamese ground sloth, contact the Idylland Wildlife Foundation.
Oh No he didn't, Cammie girl!
ReplyDeleteBut alas...he did...
eggz cell ant post cammie; we iz buzzed happee ta lurn mor bout yur back ground.....we never new de siamese ground sloth pre furred z/d pastez !! :) ☺☺♥♥
ReplyDeleteOh wow, what an exciting new species!
ReplyDeleteWell if it isn't the cutest ever!!!
ReplyDeleteIt's a new Hinterland Who's Who! (And brilliantly done. I think it should be filmed and run on CBC, of course.)
ReplyDeleteI was thinking of Hinterland's Who's Who at the time; I even had the flute music playing in my head.
DeleteAwww.such a cute sloth.
ReplyDeleteWhat a sweet post! Perhaps Animal Planet can do a show about this new species! :-)
ReplyDeleteAh! Bless! Sounds like a great CV to me...
ReplyDeleteI'll take two please...! :).
If there were two more like this one, I know they'd be safe with you, Willie.
DeleteI am glad to finally know about this species. How good of you to write about her and show us how she looks! Now I can recognize and report such on my daily travels should I meet one in the wilds of my woods or elsewhere, You did not mention if those are such as to beware of. I shouldn't like to be accosted after all if I approach.
ReplyDeleteThey're pretty safe; just give them a clear path so they won't hiss.
DeleteI will be vewy vewy quiet.
DeleteI'm not entirely certain that Cammie would appreciate being called a sloth. But I'm absolutely certain she's happy where she is.
ReplyDeleteIt was the picture more than anything else that made me think of the comparison. Sloth or princess, she’s mine.
DeleteI would have had a similar thought I think, on seeing it. I loved this and the preceding blog as well. Many smiles for me in those. You have a talent referencing your furred family there in the Cozy Apartment that I wish everyone could see/read. I look forward to all of the blogs.
DeleteAnd she's such a pretty Siamese sloth!
ReplyDeleteIndeed, she is.
DeleteSiamese sloths do a much better job of keeping the fur free
ReplyDeletefrom algae! I love to see such a creature, as if on PBS Nature!
And food selection is so specific like foreign sloths.
The ground sloth photos are really special and we are thinking you used a wildlife camera attached to some local objects as she must be wary of movement most of the day. We love the attention she gets to help protect this endangered little fur
ReplyDeleteAnd does she mind her new title? Curious minds want to know!
ReplyDeleteAnd does she mind her new title? Curious minds want to know!
ReplyDeleteIt was very interesting to at last learn about the exotic Siamese ground sloth.
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