On Saturday, 14 October, parts of the western hemisphere, including our little corner of the South Caribbean,  will experience a breathtaking celestial show: an annular solar eclipse.

Every October 20th, millions of different people around the world come together to celebrate sloths for reasons nearly as varied as they are: because sloths are a flagship species critical to the biodiversity of their habitats, because they symbolize an antidote to the stress and hurry of our high-speed modern world, or because they are just really cute and interesting animals!