Python

 Curled up beneath a hollowed out log, a formidable sight- the reticulated python, looking my way. They live in southeast Asia.

This fellow is a sculpture, a long term occupant of the Museum. You would not want to get this close to the real thing.

The Asian Water Dragon ranges from India through China.

I finish today with the star of the show, this furball hanging behind a tree. Linneaus's Two-Toed Sloth calls northern South America home. Good luck getting a clear shot, as these guys are well known for, well... their sloth. I estimated it might take this guy three weeks to make his way around the enclosure.

Here you get a look at his leg, clinging to the branch overhead. I expect he was napping. It's possible this sloth is a perpetual part of the Museum's collection, usually kept off site, as I remember a previous temporary exhibit on slow animals featured a sloth.