October 25–31, 2019 Brooklyn Paper • www.BrooklynPaper.com • (718) 260-2500 AWP 9
By Rose Adams
Brooklyn Paper
Slow down, you move too fast!
Brooklynites who need to make
the morning last can take a lesson
from a new exhibit coming to the
Brooklyn Children’s Museum on Oct.
26. “Survival of the Slowest” will feature
about two dozen slow-moving creatures
who have turned their lack of getup
and-go into a virtue — including a
creature named for the laziest of the
Seven Deadly Sins: the sloth!
A two-year-old, two-toed sloth named
Roger will live at the museum during the
three-month-long exhibit, and professionals
will remove him from his case
three times a day to demonstrate his
extraordinary, slow-moving abilities,
which, according to a staffer at the museum,
are remarkable.
“He sleeps about 16 hours per day,”
said Winston Williams. “They’re just
unbelievably slow. They move about 40
meters in a day. It would take them 45
days to cross the Brooklyn Bridge.”
The exhibit will feature plenty of other
sleepy animals, including an iguana
named Lizarnardo DaVinci, a chameleon
named Chamuel L. Jackson, and
two tarantulas named Fuzz Lightyear
and Spinderella — along with a handful
of other, equally amusingly named
chilled-out critters, including tortoises,
hedgehogs, and snakes. The animals will
be displayed in 19 distinct glass habitats,
much like they are in zoos, and
youngsters will be able to observe them
up close during multiple daily demonstrations.
The museum will explore how these
animals work their extreme slowness to
their advantage, said Williams.
“The exhibit kind of explores how all
these animals who you wouldn’t necessarily
choose to evolve as, who are slow,
how some of them have taken advantage
of that,” Williams said.
Sloths, for example, blend into their
environment and only have to consume a
few hundred calories a day — and sometimes,
the lazy mammals move so gradually
that food comes to them.
“Algae grows on the sloth because
they’re so slow, they lick it, and it produces
fats,” Williams said.
The exhibit, produced in collaboration
with an animal education center
in Canada called Little Ray’s Nature
Centres, is the first of its kind in the
United States, although it made its Canadian
debut in 2018. The exhibit will
offer Brooklyn children a rare opportunity
to see exotic animals in the flesh,
said Williams.
“We’re really excited about the exhibit,”
he said. “It’s going to be many
people’s first experience with these animals
up close.”
“Survival of the Slowest” at the
Brooklyn Children’s Museum 145
Brooklyn Ave. between St. Mark’s
Avenue and Prospect Place in Crown
Heights, (718) 735–4400. www.brooklynkids.
org. Oct. 26–Feb. 2. Open Tue,
Wed, Fri, 10 am–5 pm; Thu, 10 am–6
pm; Sat–Sun, 10 am–7 pm. $13.
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Slow going: (Top) Roger, a two-year-old two-toed sloth, is one of the
21 animals featured in the “Survival of the Slowest” exhibit opening at
the Brooklyn Children’s Museum on Oct. 26. (Above) One of the slowmoving
animals will be a hedgehog named Sonic.
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