French photographer Emmanuel Tardy's image of a sloth clinging to a post in Costa Rica is one of the images from the 2025 Wildlife Photographer of the Year award.
  • acockworkorange@mander.xyzEnglish
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    1 month ago

    There are clearly trees right there. I get that they’re highlighting habitat loss, but what a terrible headline.

      • acockworkorange@mander.xyzEnglish
        11·
        1 month ago

        I mean, they are dumb. To reduce energy usage, their brains grew smaller. Which was fine in a world without fences.

    • fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.comEnglish
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      1 month ago

      Terrible headline, or poor image cropping? Ehhhh?

      Seriously, though, the Sloth was stuck on that side of the road due to traffic between it and the other trees, and the photo was taken as traffic cleared. It’s intended to show the separation from habitat by human inhabitants, which, with context of deforestation, the road, and cars, it does an excellent job of.