Wednesday in photos 2: The sloth

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At the Santa Cruz Zoo you can get closer to the animals than perhaps you can at an American Zoo. The closest we got was to a sloth climbing a tree with its baby in the middle of the zoo, not in a cage.

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That’s a close-up of the baby the mama sloth is carrying as she climbs the trees and eats leaves.

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