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Drusillas fundraises for adorable baby sloths and you can help and win prizes
Drusillas Park in Alfriston is appealing for help raising money for their Conversation Charity of the year, The Sloth Conservation Foundation (SloCo). Coronavirus closures and restrictions have forced Drusillas to cancel all their fundraising activities for the year, so the Park is now relying on public support to raise funds...
Say Hello to the Sloth, The Masked Singer’s Most Languorous Contestant
With the second season of The Masked Singer due to start in just a week's time, on August 10, Network Ten has gotten a wriggle on with their mask announcements (they've got to get through 12 after all!), introducing us to the lethargic Sloth. Does the slow and steady Sloth have what...
Metro Richmond Zoo opens new sloth exhibit, rain forest habitat
CHESTERFIELD COUNTY, Va. (WWBT) - The Metro Richmond Zoo announced it will be opening a new sloth exhibit and a rain forest habitat. The new habitat will be called, ‘Animals of the Amazon', which will feature different species of animals native to the Amazon Rain Forest and other parts of...
Adorable Pop Up Sloth Clothes Hook is Worth the Wait
Can you imagine meeting someone who doesn’t like sloths? I actually can’t. Those adorable, friendly creatures are truly living their best lives. They don’t expend any unnecessary energy in their pursuit of a peaceful existence full of sleeping and eating. They’re just pure joy. Unfortunately, their needs mean they aren’t the best pets. Fortunately,...
The sloth has landed in Billings
And Q2 got a behind the scenes meeting Winston the Sloth has arrived at his new home in Billings. Q2 has been following Winston's journey from Michigan to the Magic City for weeks, but this morning, we actually got to meet him. And yes, he is as adorable as his...
Fun Sloth Facts for Kids
Enjoy our range of fun sloth facts for kids. Learn what they eat, how far sloths can extend their tongue, where they live, why sloths move so slowly and lots more interesting information. Read on and check out our cool trivia about sloths. Sloths are a medium-sized mammal. There are...
Meet ZooMontana's Winston the Sloth
 Well, we have a winner. After more than 1,000 different name suggestions and over 8,000 votes online, ZooMontana’s new, two-toed sloth, finally has a name. Meet Winston. The name ‘Winston’ was announced today by ZooMontana and Stockman Bank, which is sponsoring the new sloth habitat. Winston is said to...
Sloths May Be Slow, But They're Not Stupid
A new book challenges misconceptions about the Central and South American tree dwellers. Everybody knows that sloths are slow. It's true the tropical tree dwellers possess the lowest metabolic rates of any non-hibernating mammals. But when it comes to their biology, the Central and South American critters are anything but boring. For...
Baby sloth at Providence zoo named ‘Beany’ in memory of sloth-loving teen
After a months-long process, the baby sloth at Providence’s Roger Williams Park Zoo finally has a name: Beany. Shortly after Beany’s birth on May 13, the zoo began a baby-naming contest, which also served as a fund-raiser. Ultimately, there were more than 1,000 names suggested, and the sloth fund-raiser raised...
ZooMontana wants you to vote on a sloth name
BILLINGS - How about some sloth news? The 15-month-old male two toed sloth that is slowly making his way to ZooMontana is getting closer to having a name. Over the past several days, people have been suggesting names through social media for the zoo's soon to be resident. Technically, his...
A sloth risks its life every time it poops. Watch the harrowing act for yourself.
Valentino is a baby Linnaeus’s two-toed sloth. At five months old, he weighs about as much as a cantaloupe (and only moves slightly more). Everything he does, little that that may be, is beyond adorable. When Valentino buries his head in his blanket, my heart swells. When he leans back to...
The faster, fiercer, and always surprising sloth, an interview with Bryson Voirin
A doctoral student with the Max Planck Institute, Bryson Voirin studies sloths and other species at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. Mongabay.com’s sixth in a series of interviews with ‘Young Scientists’. Sloths sleep all day; they are always slow; and they are gentle as lambs. These are just some of the...
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Adorable Pop Up Sloth Clothes Hook is Worth the Wait
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The sloth has landed in Billings
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Fun Sloth Facts for Kids
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Meet ZooMontana's Winston the Sloth
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Sloths May Be Slow, But They're Not Stupid
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ZooMontana wants you to vote on a sloth name
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