Baby Sloth Sanctuary In Costa Rica: The Cute Show

As soon as I heard about the Aviarios Del Caribe sloth sanctuary in Costa Rica I knew it would be perfect for the Cute Show. It's the world's only sloth orphanage, home to over a hundred very sleepy urchins whose lives have been saved by legendary sloth whisperer Judy Arroyo.

Sloths are fantastically weird animals, the junkies of the jungle who seem to spend their lives either nodding off or scratching and occasionally eating a bean or two before drifting back to what looks like a blissful sleep.

The babies are especially helpless and comical and I fell in love with them immediately. So I cut a few choice clips together to show my old colleague VBS UK producer Vida Toombs and Cute Show creator Amy Kellner and posted the video on my Vimeo page. To my surprise the clip went viral and was watched by a million people in a week. Clearly I was not alone in thinking that these animals had super squee powers. So here is my Cute Show about the sloths, the perfect prelude to a sneaky daytime nap.

If you fall for these animals like I did then you can join the sanctuary's volunteer programme. Trainee sloth wranglers get to feed the sloths and help exercise and potty train the babies. The sanctuary runs on donations and voluntary help so you can do your bit by helping these vulnerable creatures whose jungle home is being slowly destroyed by pesticides, sold off to US real estate agencies and sliced up by roads and power lines.

Here are some links:
Sloth Sanctuary: www.slothrescue.org
My Vimeo page: http://vimeo.com/11712103

To see more adorable, cute animals, check out: http://www.vice.com/en_ca/the-cute-show/

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[remppp]

Sid looks like me when I'm stoned

[deaconredwhiteandblu]

They get PAID to play with sloths that is just amazing

[daniel carrera]

0:36 too faded

[Tania Kingston]

Some idiot created those sleazy rape memes and now everybody remembers that LMAO at least it made sloths famous for something. I'm telling you: computer nerds own the World

[Виктор Стоев]

00:37 badass

[anyiethp]

these animals are better than pandas

[xoxoLightning]

jesus christ i fucking love sloths

[Mason N]

I'm surprise these sloths didn't rape anyone.

[kevin clary]

rape sloth sanctuary..

[msdancingpeanut]

i want to go there so badly!!

[Manok Konam]

damn sloth always high as f*ck

[repoilify]

0:35 I couldn't stop laughing