Comments on: Rescue Me

By: Kees van Berkel

Kees van Berkel — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 14:25:44 +0000

Hi Jeff,

I just saw your photographs and reports. Great! Seeing myself with umbrella at the airport of Davíd is nice, but the photograph is a piece of art, with the other red umbrella’s. You have not only the birders eye but also the artists eye

Hope to meet again

Kees

By: Susan Gets Native

Susan Gets Native — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 02:27:37 +0000

Jeff,
Oh, I just can’t help myself. There is something about sloths that just curls my toes. I love their hairy-alien look and those wonderful long nails. Oooo…full body shiver.
Thanks to your group for helping it.

By: flowergirl

flowergirl — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 16:37:45 +0000

A nice thoughtful post. I think you helped!!

I also have mulled about how much should I interfere, intrude. Sometimes, when I go to a national park, I even wonder if I should be there in the first place, or is it best to leave the animals alone!

Maybe you can help me with the to feed or not to feed question that I wrote about here: http://madraswanderer.blogspot.com/2008/09/sparrow-suprabhatam.html

Thanks!

By: Nate

Nate — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 01:57:52 +0000

As one who’s volunteered at a museum with a live sloth (though of the slightly more ill-tempered 2-toed variety) I think I can shed some light on your sloth defecation query.

Not only do they do their business on the ground, but they bury it too. It’s thought that it’s so predators, ocelots, jaguar and such, are unable to sniff them out. They do have to move from tree to tree on the ground, and a determined predator could just stake itself out and wait for the sloth to make its inevitable descent.

Or so I’ve heard.

By: Bill

Bill — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 00:05:58 +0000

Jeff:

Three widely spaced events neatly tied into a bundle by you. Nicely done, amigo.

Oh, and Diego says “hola!”

By: Sharon Lynn

Sharon Lynn — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 17:35:17 +0000

Everyone and every thing needs help now and then. It can certainly be tough to know when it is appropriate to do so, but you certainly caused no harm with these selfless acts. A wonderful post.

By: Bill S.

Bill S. — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 17:20:13 +0000

Is the bigger question “How can I help?” In these and similar situations, we did not dial up the real life and death drama we happened upon, but merely became part of it………a decision-maker within the drama and a quality the imperiled victim does not possess.

To help is a gift, the experience we take with us is forever lingering and part of who we will become.

By: Vickie

Vickie — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 12:06:15 +0000

Very thoughtful post. It is a messy business to know when to help and when to let nature handle it. But I think it both enlarges us and makes us feel more deeply connected when we notice and can do something, anything, to help our fellow creatures.

By: Elizabeth Gordon

Elizabeth Gordon — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 01:31:38 +0000

That is why I love you.

I can’t believe the sloth…it is so much smaller than I ever thought they would be.

One of my favorite images ever is seeing a film of a sloth swim from one tree to another during an amazonian flood. It was the most majestic swimmer. So elegant…way more than the one on the boiling hot pavement.

Thanks for helping him.