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

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

They typically live 10 to 15 years and can sleep for up to 20 hours a day. Hoffman’s two-toed sloths have a gestation period of around 11.5 months. After birth, the baby will cling to the mother ...

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 ...

Their food takes forever to digest and gives little energy, so they let life pass them by as they remain tucked in tree branches ... three-toed sloths manage to sleep up to 15 hours each day.

Toast met Rico, a two-toed sloth, and the two slow-mo ... of their lives hanging upside down from tree branches, devoting about 15 hours every day to sleep, and they move so slowly that algae ...

Maya’s youngest child, Manis, sits beside me, cradling a baby sloth, also a pet ... sweeps the hut’s earthen floor with a switch of tree leaves while Washman supervises.