teaching story!

We're doing a unit on the rainforest. For the writing prompt today, the kids were supposed to pretend they were going to go on safari. Many, many, many of them went prepared for bloodshed. My supervising teacher thought one was too much, though, so handed me his paper, asking that I help the kid "come up with a different way to treat an endangered species." He....hah, ok. He was bringing, among other items, a knife, with which to stab a three-toed sloth. Stab.
After some discussion, I got him to reluctantly change "knife" to "camera", "stab" to "take a picture of" (not that I'm spelling like he did, but you know).....but since we ran out of time, the last part of his sentence, "so I could take his toes," doesn't quite make sense.