A person being ignorant or uninformed is one thing. Someone being willfully ignorant is entirely different. The exotic pet shop doing this with the sloth is willful ignorance. Likely combined with greed. That really gets to me.
Owning a pet monkey. Willful ignorance. And for what reason? Just to brag that you have a pet monkey? Pitiful.
By the way, the link to the zebra article looks like it’s dead. Much like the poor zebra.
Present-day sloths belong to two different zoological families. One family consists of the so-called "two-toed sloths" and the other of the so-called "three-toed sloths." The fact that the sloths are in two different families shows that they are not all closely related to each other and may be expected to have different looks, behavior, and anatomy. When I first read the headline about a biting sloth, I figured that it had to be one of the two species of two-toed sloth and I was right. Yes, they have some sharp front teeth and I've always assumed that they would not be afraid to use them. They are not the kinds of sloths that appear the most cute and cuddly. Those are the three-toed sloths which have no sharp teeth. The latest taxonomic treatment of them lists five species. I cannot vouch for the behavior of all of those species but I once handled a live adult of one of them and it made no attempt whatsoever to act bite me or otherwise defend itself.
"Funny you should ask, because I myself am wondering how the hell I got here." ~The Alligator, probably. That would have legit freaked me out. The sloth story really bothers me because I have a real issue with wild animals being kept as pets and to see any place even softball encouraging that is stupid. #TeamSloth Always enjoy the roundups, Sharon, hope you are well!
As you say, why is it always the innocent animals who have to pay for human stupidity? (Mind you, I'd love a wombat...)
A person being ignorant or uninformed is one thing. Someone being willfully ignorant is entirely different. The exotic pet shop doing this with the sloth is willful ignorance. Likely combined with greed. That really gets to me.
Owning a pet monkey. Willful ignorance. And for what reason? Just to brag that you have a pet monkey? Pitiful.
By the way, the link to the zebra article looks like it’s dead. Much like the poor zebra.
It wasn't dead, I just missed a letter on the copy/paste. Fixed now.
So the alligator lives, but the zebra dies. So much for the Age of Mammals.
Present-day sloths belong to two different zoological families. One family consists of the so-called "two-toed sloths" and the other of the so-called "three-toed sloths." The fact that the sloths are in two different families shows that they are not all closely related to each other and may be expected to have different looks, behavior, and anatomy. When I first read the headline about a biting sloth, I figured that it had to be one of the two species of two-toed sloth and I was right. Yes, they have some sharp front teeth and I've always assumed that they would not be afraid to use them. They are not the kinds of sloths that appear the most cute and cuddly. Those are the three-toed sloths which have no sharp teeth. The latest taxonomic treatment of them lists five species. I cannot vouch for the behavior of all of those species but I once handled a live adult of one of them and it made no attempt whatsoever to act bite me or otherwise defend itself.
"Funny you should ask, because I myself am wondering how the hell I got here." ~The Alligator, probably. That would have legit freaked me out. The sloth story really bothers me because I have a real issue with wild animals being kept as pets and to see any place even softball encouraging that is stupid. #TeamSloth Always enjoy the roundups, Sharon, hope you are well!