Three-Toed Sloth

Sloths may be slow (I timed a sloth moving on YouTube at what appeared to be about 450 feet per hour), but they're fascinating creatures just the same.  They can rotate their heads 270 degrees and their slowness allows algae to grow on their fur, camouflaging them from predators such as harpy eagles.  Besides, they're not the world's slowest animals:

(1. Starfish: 4 ft per hour
2. Scotoplanes sea cucumber {"sea pig"}: 14 ft per hour
3. Shelled slug: 16.5 ft per hour
4. Red slug: 18 ft per hour
5. Giant African land snail: 23 ft per hour
6. Black slug: 30 ft per hour
7. Garden snail: 36 ft per hour
8. Edible snail: 50 ft per hour
9. Sea mouse: 60 ft per hour
10. Long-spined black sea urchin: 90 ft per hour)

It's a shame that their rainforest habitat is being destroyed at such an alarming rate.  According to Captain Planet and the Planeteers, the rainforest is being destroyed at the rate of a football field a second, which amounts to at least 54,000 square miles a year.  This means that in the 29 years that have passed since Captain Planet first aired, we've lost at least 1.575 million square miles of tropical forest.  Ma-Ti, the South American Planeteer with the power of Heart, mentioned that tropical soil is not meant for farming, and when it is farmed, it gives out within a few years.  We need rainforests, not beef cattle.  Great job on this photo.