The Sloth Blog
New study takes closer look at how environment ...
Scientists studying brown-throated three-toed sloths, where predators are extinct and food is more accessible, have found that the animals adapt to have a primarily diurnal, or daytime, schedule.
New study takes closer look at how environment ...
Scientists studying brown-throated three-toed sloths, where predators are extinct and food is more accessible, have found that the animals adapt to have a primarily diurnal, or daytime, schedule.
Baby sloth at Providence zoo named ‘Beany’ in m...
After a months-long process, the baby sloth at Providence’s Roger Williams Park Zoo finally has a name: Beany.
Baby sloth at Providence zoo named ‘Beany’ in m...
After a months-long process, the baby sloth at Providence’s Roger Williams Park Zoo finally has a name: Beany.
ZooMontana wants you to vote on a sloth name
The 15-month-old male two toed sloth that is slowly making his way to ZooMontana is getting closer to having a name.
ZooMontana wants you to vote on a sloth name
The 15-month-old male two toed sloth that is slowly making his way to ZooMontana is getting closer to having a name.
A sloth risks its life every time it poops. Wat...
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...
A sloth risks its life every time it poops. Wat...
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...
Slothy Sunday: Osa, a true ‘Oso Perezoso’
Looks can be deceiving, as those of us who work with sloths can tell you. This is especially true with Hoffman’s Two-Fingered sloths, the lesser-known of the two types of...
Slothy Sunday: Osa, a true ‘Oso Perezoso’
Looks can be deceiving, as those of us who work with sloths can tell you. This is especially true with Hoffman’s Two-Fingered sloths, the lesser-known of the two types of...
The faster, fiercer, and always surprising slot...
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’.
The faster, fiercer, and always surprising slot...
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’.