“Having lost their mothers to dogs, electric wires, cars, or general forest destruction, they come in scared and alone and in need of a new place to call home,” she explained in the introduction to Slothlove. In 2014, she made scientific history by performing the first ever sloth C-section.īeyond the adoring photos, Trull’s book tells the stories of orphans Chuck, Kermie, Elvis, Monster and Newbie. Sam, who studied zoology in North Carolina and primate conservation in the U.K., has logged over 15,000 hours of sloth study over the last three years. Her ongoing research is becoming one of the most in-depth long term behavioral studies of the tree-dwelling jungle creatures. Not only did that sloth survive, but there are now eleven orphaned sloths that I care for around the clock.” I would always put her needs first, and I would make sure she felt safe, comfortable-and loved. “Looking down at her sleeping face, I made her a promise that I would do everything in my power to give her the life she deserved. “I was told baby sloths don’t usually survive well in captivity, and there was a good chance she wouldn’t make it.” Her tiny claws clutched tightly to my shirt, and her nose wiggled with innocent perfection,” writes Sam in Slovelove. “The first time I held a baby sloth I was learning how to feed her. Her new 100-page photo book, “ Slothlove,” is a collection of dozens of portraits of adorable, googley-eyed sloth orphans that have become her furry foster children. She co-founded the Sloth Institute of Costa Rica in August 2014 and began amassing photographs, as well as data. While Sam Trull was exploring the jungles of Costa Rica, she encountered many fascinating critters, but one in particular stole her heart: the sloth.Īfter a 15-year conservation career working with primates and other wild mammals in different countries, Sam left her familiar home in the United States to dedicate her life to researching and protecting these 2- and 3-toed vegetarians.
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