P17_403

Extremely peaceful
Bicho-preguiça (Bradypus variegatus)
Tenderly looking at the camera, naturally smiling, they are the mother and child of a sloth. It lives off the impeccable balance between an exclusive diet of leaves and a behavior that values ​​maximum energy savings. His smooth, slow movements are like a slow-motion video. This peaceful being could be very easy prey, but its existence is related to the development of a sophisticated survival instinct: it moves extremely slowly, but its slender arms launch powerful claws against the agressive visitor and are very feared.
They say that if she is on the ground and the jaguar approaches, then she stands with open arms and always facing the predator, If the latter is impatient, as younger individuals are, and attacks, then the sloth embraces. the unwary, digging its claws into its back and remains so even after death, being able to carry the predator to the same fate.
In general, the jaguar is very cunning and it simply sits in front of the sloth, waiting for it to fall out of exhaustion.

P17_403 – Leonide Principe
Camera Nikon F5 with Nikkor lens 80-200mm f2.8 – Diapositive Film Fujichrome Velvia 50 – Scanner: Nikon SUPER COOLSCAN 5000 ED
Digitised from a positive on film –
Original file size: 5346px x 3601px
Location Taken: rio Cuieras (Manaus – Amazonas Brazil)
Date Taken: 1997
Collection: Sloths – Persons shown: none
Keywords:
preguiça-real, Choloepus didactylus, preguiça-de-dois-artelhos, two-toed sloth, unau, preguiças, sloths, mamíferos, mammals, FAUNA, animals, Amazonas, Amazônia, Amazon, Amazonian, Brazil, Brasil, Brazilian, América do Sul, South America, cabeceira do rio Cuieras
EN1 Extremely peaceful P17_403
PT1 Extremamente pacífica P17_403
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D07_2030

The golden ratio
The two heads in the top third line repeat the framing style of the cover image, which maintains the same golden ratio in the first third of the frame.

D07_2030 – Leonide Principe
Equipment: NIKON D7000 with lens 70.0-300.0 mm f/4.5-5.6 set at 260 mm – Exposition: ISO: 800 – Aperture: 5.6 – Shutter: 1/320 – Program: Normal – Exp. Comp.: 0.0,
Original digital capture of a real life scene –
Original file size: 3280px x 4948px
Location: rio Cuieras (Manaus – Amazonas Brazil)
Date: September 1, 2011 – Time: 1:11:43 PM
Collection: Sloths – Persons shown: none
Keywords:
preguiça-de-três-dedos, Bradypus trydactilus, preguiça-de-bentinho, preguiça-de-garganta-amarela, preguiça-de-três-artelhos, preguiças, sloths, mamíferos, mammals, FAUNA, animals, Amazonas, Amazônia, Amazon, Amazonian, Brazil, Brasil, Brazilian, América do Sul, South America
EN2 The golden ratio D07_2030
PT2 A proporção áurea D07_2030
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P17_403

Common-sloth (Bradypus variegatus)
The pair in the image were photographed in the Cuieras River, a tributary of the left bank of the Negro River.
I met a German researcher, Heide Mosbark, who lived in the headwaters of the Cuieras River, an extremely isolated area and far from everything. She lived alone, with the sloths.
Speaking on behalf of sloths, Heide declared: «we are not lazy, but very sensitive».
This work becomes, in a way, a tribute to this singular and detached woman, and, of course, also to the pure and peaceful existence of sloths.

P17_403 – Leonide Principe
Camera Nikon F5 with Nikkor lens 80-200mm f2.8 – Diapositive Film Fujichrome Velvia 50 – Scanner: Nikon SUPER COOLSCAN 5000 ED
Digitised from a positive on film –
Original file size: 5346px x 3601px
Location Taken: rio Cuieras (Manaus – Amazonas Brazil)
Date Taken: 1994
Collection: Sloths – Persons shown: none
Keywords:
preguiça-de-três-dedos, Bradypus trydactilus, preguiça-de-bentinho, preguiça-de-garganta-amarela, preguiça-de-três-artelhos, preguiças, sloths, mamíferos, mammals, FAUNA, animals, Amazonas, Amazônia, Amazon, Amazonian, Brazil, Brasil, Brazilian, América do Sul, South America, cabeceira do rio Cuieras
EN3 Common-sloth P17_403
PT3 Preguiça-comum P17_403
© – Leonide Principe, all right reserved
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