Two baby sloth bear cubs were born at Smithsonian’s National Zoo, making it the first birth of the species at the zoo since ...

CITES, the global wildlife trade regulation, has agreed to implement stricter rules for the trade in two sloth species increasingly targeted by the tourism industry. Thanks to its peaceful and ...

The apparent docility and friendliness of “smiling” sloths have made them tourist darlings, but have also put a target on their backs. The rise in trafficking of these animals led the governments of ...

On February 8, the San Diego Zoo celebrated the birth of a new baby sloth. The adorable little guy, born to sloth mama Xena, is her third baby. He was the first sloth pup to be born at the San Diego ...

When you begin to think of the cutest animals in nature, a sloth may not immediately come to mind, but that’s probably because you’ve never seen a baby sloth. One look at the baby sloth in this ...

It’s not easy to find a sloth in the middle of the forest. They spend most of their time in the tree canopy and are masters of camouflage, thanks to their slow movements and the algae attached to ...