Oct. 19, 2017 - In the Peruvian jungle, loggers chopped a tree down and retrieved an illicit prize—a sloth. Sloths sleep for up to 20 hours a day, and their seemingly calm, docile personalities make them easy to capture, transport, and handle. The stress of these experiences can lead to their premature deaths. The loggers sold the sloth for $13 at a market in the port town of Iquitos, known as a hotspot for the illegal wildlife trade. The sloth was likely sold into either the pet trade, or the tourism "selfie" trade.
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