Photo Information
| Taken: | 18 April 2003 16:59 near Kuna Yala Panamá | |
|---|---|---|
| Camera: | Unknown digital | |
| Exposure: | ISO 100 | |
| 9.6mm, 0 EV | ||
| 3.5 | ||
| 1/200 |
Backstory
You’ve heard of art imitating and life and vice versa. This picture is the opposite of “monkey see, monkey do.” We were on our way back from a hard day at work, training Panamanians how to work in a Dell call center. The bus driver spotted this sloth—which he insisted was a “monkey”— and pulled over so we could see some native fauna. Aaron insisted on getting down on his hands and knees to mirror this languid Bradypus. The scimitar-like claws frightened some of the women who begged Aaron to leave the poor beast alone, but Aaron was undaunted. “He can’t move fast enough to hurt me.” Luckily, sloths are generally passive enough that we never found out if Aaron was wrong.
It’s possible that I didn’t take this picture, but I did take one that could be its twin. I had a whole flash card full of pictures get messed up in a river in Panamá, but some of the pictures survived. Those of us who opened the Dell call center in Cuidád Panamá shared many of our pictures, and this could have been taken by one of the others.
–27 March 2012
