🦥Debbie: An Incredible Hidden Sloth Found by Jose!

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Everybody give a big welcome to Deborah, our latest addition to the Urban Sloth Project! Debbie, as she is affectionately known to the tracking team, is a beautiful two-fingered sloth (Choloepus hoffmanni) that lives in the same little forest as Mango and Maracuya near SloCo HQ. She was named after one of our dearest supporters, and we know she is going to be just as awesome.
The Urban Sloth Project is a long-term investigation into the impacts of habitat disturbance and rainforest urbanization on the behavior of wild sloths in Costa Rica.

Many people believe that Costa Rica is the best place in the world for seeing sloths – and for good reason; you are almost guaranteed to see a sloth if you visit this tiny Central American country!

[aaronnoel]

Aww, Debbie looks so adorable here. In the first video I saw of her, I had wondered if she was an orphan and /or scared...but it turns out she is part of the tracking program and apparently playing hide and seek! Debbie is so beautiful!

[martha]

Aweeee! She is ❤😊😮soo cute!! I would have her on my hands