Flat headed cat
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Hua Hin Safari is the second zoo in the world after Dallas aquarium
Hua Hin Safari is the second zoo in the world after Dallas aquarium
Huahin safari Thailand has three toed sloth
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That image looks rather edited and cut together to me and is a bit odd looking. Is it possible that someone on the social media page was told to make an image of a sloth and they pulled the wrong species from Google? Is there any other source of information on this?
Flat headed cat
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There is an animal expert in Thailand who said that it is a real picture. The owner of Hua Hin Safari has quite a lot of connections. When it comes to three-toed sloths, it is highly possible.
Oh okay, fascinating! Thanks for posting.
If this is true, it is one of the most surprising posts on Zoochat this year
I doubt it will last long
Flat headed cat
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More evidence will have to be found, but Thailand currently imports animals from American Whether it's a howler spider monkey, jaguar tayra It is not surprising that there are imports of three-tode slot that are CITES 2
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Three-toed sloth in the main market in Iquitos, Peru Stock Photo - Alamy indicates that three-toed sloths may be sold in markets in Peru
Flat headed cat
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Log in to FacebookNow there are more pictures and I think they are real because in Thailand, some three-toed sloths have been brought in for private keeping
Lafone
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I'd say (without knowing one way or another) that's an edited image and not a particularly good one. The woman's right hand has as good as no fingers, the girl's thumb is an odd shape. There is a clear 'ring' around the left arm of the lower sloth. The boy's T shirt has an almost complete change of colour at the bottom with no visible lighting reason for that to happen and his right hand is a different colour to his arm.
This is the area that most suggests a poor edit (cropped from the original at the link above)
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Lafone
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Looking at the Facebook page the rest of the photos are nowhere near as edited or fake looking though some of the things they depict like people sitting on tigers and a liger that look drugged up to the eyeballs are tragically bad in other ways. But look at the rest of the photography, there is no reason for this image or the other to be so out of kilter.
Yeah, there is no way that either of the photographs presented thus far are genuine, in my opinion.
Flat headed cat
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Log in to FacebookTourists have taken photos with three-toed sloths and posted them on their personal Facebook pages Still think it's a composite photo?
Lafone
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I'd say that looks less fake and utterly lamentable.
Edited to add I wouldn't characterise dumb human behaviour as unique to any nation...I went to look at a Grey seal colony today and there were people trying to get their Yorkshire Terriers to pose right next to the growing pups near the fence, despite the seal wardens asking them not to. I wonder what comes over people.
But if this is a real photo it's just sad.
Edited to add I wouldn't characterise dumb human behaviour as unique to any nation...I went to look at a Grey seal colony today and there were people trying to get their Yorkshire Terriers to pose right next to the growing pups near the fence, despite the seal wardens asking them not to. I wonder what comes over people.
But if this is a real photo it's just sad.
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The photos look quite genuine as @Flat headed cat has observed. Why doubt a local and knowledgeable poster with more on the ground knowledge anyway?
I looked at their website myself too and the jury should not be out on this. The photos taken by visitors are clearly of three-toed sloths Bradypus spp.!!!
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Three-Toed Sloths | National Geographic
Lafone
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The other photos before this most recent one look like bad edits. Of course you are entitled to think they are genuine.
