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Sample Starting Sloth Sanctuary: (plants are *'s, sloths are @'s)

        ["###################", 
         "# ** *****  **    #", 
         "#    @ *    *  *  #", 
         "#**   *** *   @** #", 
         "#  * *** @ *   *  #", 
         "# **     ****   * #", 
         "# * @  **** *  *  #", 
         "###################"]

I started this primarily as a personal challenge with two simple markers of success: a self-contained environmental status quo within the 'sanctuary' (following patterns of population rise and fall characteristic of healthy ecosystems), and a semblance of what one could call 'purpose' in the lives of the sloths--such that they achieve a variety of 'life'-enhancing goals over their lifetimes. This has not yet been achieved in full, but it is in sight.

Future Enhancements:

• Greater awareness within the sloths of their surroundings and the properties of the nearby inhabitants
• Variety of plants
• Predatory creatures and poisonous plants
• Environmental changes (drought, rainy seasons, etc)
• Sloth maturation scale -- alive for a certain number of turns, and their abilities change in some degrees. (ie. Cannot reproduce until aged 3-4; Get more nutrients aged 0-4; Travel further aged 1-3; Time between movements) decreases from 1-5, then decreases from 5-end
• Simple evolution, through inheritance from parents during mating. (ie. Sexual selectivity -- will not mate with sloths too closely related.)
• Randomised numbers of all characters in each simulation