Sago, 6 years old, went into labor on April 2, surprising senior zookeeper Jill Erzar. Although Erzar had suspected Sago was ...

Unsure where her baby was, the mother sloth started to climb up a tree and into the canopy. Fortunately, staff from Jaguar Rescue Center (JRC) in Puerto Viejo de Talamanca, Costa Rica, spotted ...

As it turns out, it’s easy to miss when a sloth is expecting. Something similar happened at the Hattiesburg Zoo in 2018 when ...

"We were delighted to finally spot a tiny baby exactly where it should be, clinging onto Marilyn's tummy, as she curled up in her favorite tree," sloth keeper Veronica Heldt said of the first time ...

DID you know that sloths sleep up to 15 hours a day ... Sloths spend most of their time hanging upside down from tree branches. About once every week, they descend to go to the bathroom, slowly ...

Erzar said that because Sago prefers one-on-one bonding time, the baby sloth has yet to meet their dad, Ziggy. “She’s very protective,” Erzar says. “She’s been up in a tree and has the choice to come ...

(Dead sloths have been known to retain their grip and remain suspended from a branch.) Sloths even sleep in trees, and they sleep a lot—some 15 to 20 hours every day. Even when awake they often ...

He was hard to miss if you were driving to Bellingham. A giant stuffed sloth lived in a tree off Interstate 5 (I-5) near Lake Samish. He is called “Slothy.” The Washington Department of ...