Three Toed Sloth Research Paper

In 2005, Monique Pool woke up devastated. Her dog Sciolo was missing. She called every animal hospital she could think of. One animal hospital called Suriname Animal Protection Society said they hadn’t seen her dog, but they told her about another animal. The animal hospital told her about Loesje, a baby three-toed sloth they had no clue how to take care of. Monique had no idea what to do but for to take the animal in. When she took Loesje in she instantly smitten. Sloths are very gentle and calm animals, but are very high maintenance. They require a strict diet when they are babies consisting of goats’ milk. When they’re an adult they eat special kinds of leaves of a tree. Monique heard about a famous sloth sanctuary in Costa Rica and sought advice from Judy Arroyo the founder of it. After a few weeks of taking care of the baby girl sloth, Monique found out it was actually a male. Loesje, after two years of being fostered, passed away. She kept going back to her journal to find out what she did wrong but could never find any documentation. The experience taught her how little knowledge there is of three-toed sloths, but she continued to …show more content…
If anyone heard about a sloth being in trouble or hurt they called her. She would continue to get sloths every week until something major happened. In October of 2012, Monique was faced with a crisis. She called it “Sloth Armageddon.” It became news to her that a piece of forest near the capital, Paramaribo, was being cut down for farming land and was asked to remove 14 sloths. She thought she was only rescuing 14 sloths but it turned out to be two-hundred. Monique says she’s never seen groups of sloths together because they’re mainly solitary and this case was unusual. The reason being they were all together is because they were forced to migrate when all the trees were being cut down. The trees were over 50 feet tall and Monique would be at the bottom of them to gather up the