Warning: cuteness overload! This is Sonic, our new baby porcupine. He was found on Pinuela beach by some tourists and look like he fall from the nest during the day when mom was sleeping and as we dont know where is the nest, we can not give him back to her. He spent too much time in the sun and in the hot sand so he came with skin burns. He is really small, around 2 or 3 weeks old and will need to be hand raised till an adult to be released. He have a lot of red hair but already have spikes under the hair, so need to be handled very carefully.

Toward the end of July, a two-toed mother sloth and her 5-month-old baby found themselves terribly lost.

Together, they wandered the town of San Isidro de El General in Costa Rica, but there was something especially wrong with the mother — she was spotted with a deep, open wound on one of her feet that dangerously exposed fat and muscle.

Thankfully, the two animals were eventually rescued by officers from the Ministry of Environment, Energy and Telecommunications (MINAE), who then brought them to the Alturas Wildlife Sanctuary for rehabilitation.

"We don't know what exactly happened with her foot," Larissa Calis, a biologist with the sanctuary, told The Dodo. "We just know she was in the middle of a town and this foot was hanging, in pain."

Despite the discomfort the mother must have felt, her number one priority was her baby, whom she was very protective of and held onto constantly. Calis noted that, while the mother was protective, she wasn't aggressive — perhaps knowing that the people who saved her had no intention of hurting her child.

"I cleaned out the wound, debrided the edges and stitched it back into place," Dr. Laura Berenguer, a veterinarian who operated on the mother sloth, wrote on Facebook. "To do so she underwent general anesthesia (adult sloths can be very dangerous, more so mothers protecting their young)."

The mother sloth held on to her child, even when unconscious, just as her son was content to stay in his mother's arms throughout the operation, where he felt the most safe.

"She stays all time in the posture you can see in one picture of them, trying to cover him," Calis said.

The young sloth even continued to suckle from his mother, occasionally taking a break from feeding to "check" on the operation.

"He seemed very calm to us, even going to take a look at what the vet was doing and trying to lick us," Calis said. "He was very curious."

After the operation, the mother sloth was given medication to prevent infections. She recovered with her baby at the sanctuary for 10 days before they were both was transported back to the jungle by MINAE officers.

During their stay at the sanctuary, the mother sloth's baby was taken from her just once for veterinarians to measure him and make certain that he was healthy — and even then, food had to be used to distract the mother.

Luckily, these two safely came out of a situation that could have ended badly without swift medical intervention.

"Well done beautiful little family!"

With over 100 animals currently at the sanctuary it is hard to pick which story to tell you about but this one in particular has touched us all very much. In the past few months we have been receiving an unfortunate amount of electrocution cases and it brings up a topic that is always on our minds and that we need your support on and that is the insulation of power lines.

About 7 days ago we received a pregnant female Congo, she was electrocuted and came to us in very poor condition. The right side of her body is now paralyzed and very sad to report her baby did not make it. She is starting to recover very slowly and is moving her leg just a little bit. Our hopes are high with some physical therapy, lots of love, patience and some other natural remedies we are hoping she will survive. Since she is now paralyzed she is not a suitable candidate for release and wont be able to make it in the wild. She will remain at the sanctuary being loved and cared for. It is extremely heart wrenching and we always want to rehabilitate and release but in cases like this it is just not possible. Please stay tuned for some important information on a petition to the electric company of Costa Rica, ICE. We will demand attention to this topic and help us by using your voice with us.