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urbpan ([personal profile] urbpan) wrote2005-07-03 10:52 am
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Unusual urban wildlife of Costa Rica

The tour buses were working their way through the streets of Limon, a town created by the banana industry, when they pulled over for no apparent reason. All of us tourists got off the two buses, and the guides pointed up at a tree in a schoolyard ringed by chainlink fence. High in the tree, a mother sloth and her baby were trying to sleep, but were roused by the commotion. Bracing against the chainlink fence with my Father's camera, I managed to get this picture:

[identity profile] http://users.livejournal.com/_bazilisk_/ 2005-07-03 08:51 pm (UTC)(link)
That's a sweet picture, mostly because- WTF? Sloths are urban?

[identity profile] urbpan.livejournal.com 2005-07-03 11:14 pm (UTC)(link)
I know! I was shocked. Limon is a pretty small town--a rural plantation town. In the big cities there weren't any sloths--mostly I remember seeing birds: boat-tailed grackles, clay-colored robins, and hummingbirds.