Well my name is Claire Trimer,
and I'm a baby sloth wrangler
at Sloth Sanctuary of Costa Rica.
Well we probably have about
135 sloths here
under a roof that we're caring for.
There's pretty much sloths
everywhere you look around here.
I have several roles here.
One of them is to
supervise the babies.
I weigh them every morning,
keep after the health issues.
You went poo yesterday.
Sometimes their mothers die.
And in that way they're orphaned.
Sometimes if a mother senses
that a baby is too weak
to survive, or they actually have
some kind of problem
that the mother has sensed,
these babies are not strong enough to cling
and they fall to the ground repeatedly.
A mother sloth is vulnerable
every time she comes to the ground
and if she thinks that this sloth
is not going to survive,
she's not going to keep
coming to the ground and
risking her life over and over again.
I love sloths because
it's been my favorite animal
for about ten years.
But I love their sweet little face
they don't ever want to hurt anybody
they just want to be happy
and be peaceful and
I just love their sweet smile.
My day as a volunteer involves
a lot of hard work.
You know, your payoff for the day
is getting to interact with the sloths
and play with the sloths
and maybe even hold the sloths' babies
and take them for walks.
This is Alfie.
He's actually a year old.
We don't know why,
but Alfie never
gained a lot of weight.
And his fur is
still the texture of baby fur.
At 6am in the morning we clean out
their cages, we really get to
wake them up which is a great time for us.
One of our favorites is Delilah
and she will actually pull the towel
back over her head because
she doesn't want to see you in the morning
she's way too tired.
Sid is our absolute favorite.
My sister and I decided to adopt Sid.
Adopting him does not mean that
we can take him home.
We wish we could, but we know we can't.
So we just signed a little certificate
that we were adopting Sid
the money goes to the program
and then we'll write to him
and send him letters and everything.
Well, he'll like actually grab you
under your arms.
Like he likes to be slow danced.
Should we dance, Sid?
Well, occasionally, someone says,
"How can you tell them apart?"
And I always want to go,
how can you not tell them apart?
Yeah, you can tell them apart.
You can tell your children apart,
so you can tell the baby sloths apart.
Yeah, they're just a huge part of my life
I'm with them almost every single day.
And they are sort of like my children.