Whenever possible, we also try to utilize items constructed here in the USA. We strive to always use top quality materials. See individual product descriptions for more details. All of our t-shirts are printed on 100% cotton soft jersey knits. See individual product descriptions for exceptions or feel free to contact us with any questions.Īll of our baby one pieces are printed on 100% fine jersey cotton. Please contact us at confirm we can get you what you need in time.įor the most part everything runs true to size. However, we are unable to add gift notes to any of our items that are shipped directly from manufacturers, so we cannot guarantee gift notes will make it to the intended recipient. You can add your gift message in the "Order Notes" box in the shopping cart. How do I send a gift message with the items I'm purchasing for someone?
Our Men, Women and Unisex collections are for the "big kids" who are Little Hippies at heart. Our Youth collection is typically for kids ages 7-12. Our Toddlers collection is typically for kids ages 2-6. Our Babies collection is typically for newborn babies all the way up through 24 months. According to the center’s latest records, 90 percent of the sloths released into the wild over the past couple of years are still alive today and thriving in their natural, if shrinking, habitat.Ī juvenile Hoffman’s two-toed sloth plays in an enclosure during rehabilitation at the Jaguar Rescue Center in Costa Rica.What are the age ranges that go along with your size categories? Once an animal has recovered from an injury or has grown big enough to survive on its own, it’s outfitted with a microchip, painted nails and a colorful braid to identify it. The rescue center releases one-third to one-half of the sloths it cares for. “I mean, we cannot eat leaves, we cannot teach them how to climb in the trees.” “We are not perfect sloth mothers,” says García. A baby sloth in the wild will cling to its mother’s fur for about six months while learning to find leaves that are nutritious and low in toxins. All the blankets and bottle-feeding in the world, though, don’t make up for not having a real parent. Infants are fed goat’s milk every three hours throughout the day and night until they’re ready for a leaf-based diet, usually by 11 months. Nursing a helpless baby sloth, which weighs only 10 or 11 ounces-about the size of a grapefruit-requires almost constant attention for several months. (Not jaguars, though the name is a winking acknowledgment of an early effort to rehabilitate a misidentified ocelot.) The center provides its patients with food, shelter and medical care, with the goal of returning animals to the wild.Ī baby Hoffman’s two-toed sloth lies in a basket during rehabilitation at the Jaguar Rescue Center in Costa Rica. The organization she co-founded, the Jaguar Rescue Center, in Playa Chiquita, takes in orphaned and injured sloths and other mammals such as monkeys and opossums, along with birds and reptiles. Rapid development of forested areas has led to more deaths and injuries, says García. If they come down from the trees, they may be attacked by dogs. They climb power lines in search of a mate and often get electrocuted. The other species, which has three forefingers and is called the brown-throated sloth, is, she reassures us, more typical-“the one that’s smiling.”ĭespite their striking differences, both the Hoffmann’s two-toed sloth and the brown-throated sloth face the same problems when people encroach on their forest habitat. This unusual species, which is called the Hoffmann’s two-toed sloth, doesn’t hesitate to deploy teeth or its two large foreclaws when threatened. “Like a lion!” says Encar García, a conservationist. A sloth that springs into action does not even seem possible, given the creature’s notorious lethargy, but one of the two sloth species in Costa Rica is fast as well as fierce.
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