Image © Jeff Chevrier

At Costa Rica’s Manuel Antonio Park, we wanted to find a wild Three-toed or Two-toed Sloth. (Sloth’s are called Parasoso or Parasosa according to gender in Spanish) Larger than the three-toed Sloth, the Two-toed Sloth pictured here rested about 60 feet above us, nestled in a tree branch overhanging the beach. It was about 11AM, but it still took 1600 ISO on the EOS 5D Mark II to get 1/250 sec. at f/4. I used a Canon EF 70-200mm f4L IS USM lens. Sloth’s sleep in trees for most of their lives as they are easy prey and cumbersome on the ground. In fact, the average Sloth sleeps from 15-18 hours daily. Pura Vida taken to extremes! A mystical creature, moves so slow that algae actually grows on their fur! It was awesome to see and photograph one on Costa Rica, and the 5D mark II did great with metering and at 1600 ISO.