Monique pool biography
Monique pool biography
“Sloth Lady” Who Saved 600 Rainforest Animals Named a CNN ....
The woman who lost a dog and gained sloths
Last year, Pool took in a badly-injured two-toed sloth she named Stephane - one head wound contained maggots.
Stephane's arrival coincided with an international sloth conference in Suriname, and Pool jokes that he must have planned it so that the best specialists in South America were on hand to treat him. Two months later, when the wound had healed, she took him back to the area where he was found.
He disappeared up a tree so fast that she was unable to capture it on film.
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Those are the best moments for her. "It's such a pleasure when you go with them to the forest," says Pool. "If you hold a sloth, it starts reaching out for the trees, like it's swimming with its arms - for them it can't be fast enough." The sloths are generally released an hour's drive from the capital - one site, along a river, is completely uninhabited and probably will be for many years.
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