With this in mind, I have successfully hunted deer, monkeys, leopards and most everything else in the jungle. But there is one creature that I find cannot be hunted: the three-toed tree sloth. It can be killed, but it cannot be hunted.
All other animals involve some kind of chase, whether it be simple tracking or being hunted while you hunt as it is with the big cats. This is not the case with the sloth. They hang in a tree. If I can see it, I can kill it. The end. No understanding, no challenge.
Sure, they have a rudimentary camouflage if you can call letting algae grow on you because you can't be bothered to move 'camouflage'. At this point, the only real challenge is their scarcity. Because they are easy, they are dying out. But that is not hunting. There is nothing to learn about them. Nothing that makes killing them satisfying. Instead, the whole affair is sad.
I suppose I will mourn them when they have been exterminated, but only because they were the only thing in the jungle that could not be hunted.
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