It's Valentine's day, so I'm allowed to put up some videos of excessively cute baby animals. I wouldn't imagine that a baby two-toed sloth (Choloepus sp.) would be at the top of anyone's list, but I'll let you decide for yourself;
The giant anteater (Myrmecophaga tridactyla) is one of my most favorite of all animals, and even though the "baby" in this clip is a little old, mothers carry their offspring piggyback for some time;
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You asked for baby goat pictures - we've got baby goat pictures!
OK, keeping with the wildlife theme: I recently found a photoset on Flickr called Tiny Things On Fingers.
So yeah, here's a nice little subset.
Holy crap the HIV news last week!
So much HIV news!
First on the list:
Well, the two (and three)-toed sloth is my absolute favorite extant animal. So, yup, it's cute.
I.WANT.ONE.
Happy V Day to you and Tracey!
That baby sloth is WAY too cute, Brian. I may have to smuggle one out of Asia now.
The baby sloth is indeed adorable. We want one too.
That sloth video was taken at the Aviarios del Caribe sloth rescue center and sanctuary in Costa Rica. There are videos similar to it all over YouTube and all are equally adorable. They rescue sloths that have been injured by cars or falling trees or whose mothers have been killed by same. A great organization.
I want to build a "tree" in my living room and have a sloth just hangin' out up there. And when people visit, I'd just be like, "yeah, that's my sloth. He doesn't do much."
That's my dream.
Er...are you absolutely sure that the anteater are mama and baby, and not, say, less-than-perfectly-receptive female and horny male?