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Be More Sloth, says eveSleep
The sleep brand's Be More Sloth video, which aims to help reduce stress and insomnia, lasts 20 hours, and shows footage of a sloth as it sleeps throughout the day in the Costa Rican rainforest. The length of the video is inspired by the slow movements of sloths, which spend up to 20 hours asleep and move...
Sloths, the world's slowest mammal, turn survival of the fittest upside down
The stopwatch has long been the symbol of 60 Minutes. But any measure of time is pointless for the subject of our next story: the slow-moving sloth. You might think these distant relatives of the armadillo would make the perfect meal for just about anything faster. And yet, somehow, sloths...
Why Are Sloths Slow? And Six Other Sloth Facts
Sloths—the adorable and lethargic animals living in treetops—depend on the health and survival of Central and South American tropical forests. They spend much of their lives in the canopy, snoozing and remaining hidden from predators. The animals live solitary lives and travel from tree to tree using canopy vines. Located...
Bristol Zoo announce name of new baby sloth
The first sloth to be born at Bristol Zoo Gardens in almost a decade has officially been given her new name. After an online poll, the name 'Noco' came out on top with more than 30% more votes than the second-placed name 'Flash'. The name Noco is short for Orinoco,...
Ohio’s Cincinnati Zoo expecting its first baby sloth
CINCINNATI — A new baby is on the way at Ohio’s Cincinnati Zoo. In a video streamed Wednesday on Facebook Live, zookeepers announced that Lightning, an 8-year-old two-toed sloth, is pregnant. The baby, due in September or October, will be the first-ever “slowbie” born at the zoo and Lightning’s first with partner Moe,...
Sloth hitches a bus ride in Brazil
At times, the internet has a lot of things in store that we can never imagine in our wildest of dreams. One such instance took place in Brazil that not only tickled the funny bone but warmed everyone's hearts as well. Coming from a city named Recife in the South...
Sloth mom & baby #Backinthetrees
Meet Leia and Ben Solo: two very special, very resilient sloths that were in Toucan Rescue Ranch’s care. This mother (Princess Leia) and son (Ben Solo) duo were first discovered after falling from the rainforest canopy, plunging 20 meters to the ground. And while little Ben Solo was thankfully unharmed,...
National Aviary’s Valentino The Sloth Celebrates 5th Birthday With Jack-O-Lantern Cake
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — Valentino, the Linnaeus’s two-toed sloth, is celebrating his fifth birthday this Halloween weekend at the National Aviary. To mark the special occasion, the Aviary made Valentino his very own birthday cake. (Photo Credit: National Aviary/Facebook) The cake, specially formulated for a sloth, is made up of sweet...
Sloths Slowly Cavort by Day Now
The disappearance of their predators in a disturbed ecosystem has turned Atlantic forest sloths from night creatures to day adventurers. Somewhere in this forest you hear, there are sloths. Those sloths live in Brazill’s Atlantic Forest. If you’re a tourist, watching sloths isn’t that exciting. But if you’re a scientist—well,...
Baby Sloths Welcomed at Adventure Aquarium in Camden
When the aquarium reopens, the incredibly adorable sloths will serve as ambassador animals. Adventure Aquarium in Camden has two new additions: two baby Linnaeus’s two-toed sloths, named Honey and Molasses. Both were born with healthy weights and sizes (and are unbelievably cute). Honey was born in late November, while Molasses...
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Be More Sloth, says eveSleep
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