The Chattanooga Zoo has welcomed a new resident, Boysenberry the two-toed sloth, marking the start of 2025 with excitement.

Animals have fascinating sleeping patterns adapted to survival. Dolphins sleep with one eye open, giraffes get about 20 ...

In fact, sloths sleep, mate, and even give birth all while hanging upside down on a branch. And, as you might expect, that requires some pretty extreme adaptations. Cliffe: They've got special ...

Slow and steady is a way of life for the sloth. These gentle creatures move ever so slowly and carefully throughout the rainforests of Central and South America. Leisurely by nature, the sloth’s ...

While humans wouldn’t be very happy to find that organisms were growing on their skin, particularly fungi, algae, and insects, it works out pretty well for sloths. Sloths may be hosting entire ...

Sloths, like all living things, need to defecate, which usually happens once per week. Pooping while hanging upside down might seem like an easier option, but sloths are incredibly fussy when it comes ...

Specialised tendons in the sloth’s hands and feet lock into place, allowing them to hang upside down for long periods of time without wasting any energy. This unique locking mechanism is also ...

We explore how the sloth loves to curl up asleep, then wake up and hang upside down in the trees. We also explore how the sloth reaches up into the trees to eat fruit. Down below, on the forest ...

all the while hanging upside down to be secure in his perching.” The zoo is working closely with the Association of Zoos and Aquariums to acquire another sloth. However, there is currently a ...