Anna Baltodano and Michael Chizkov search for sloths every morning from their terrace. Slow-moving and with fur the color of tree branches, the animals blend in among monkeys, iguanas, and toucans in the trees where they sleep, eat, and move — ever so slowly. The woodland that once surrounded the couple’s terrace has been chipped […]
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Why can’t we leave them alone? The troubling truth about selfies with sloths
Nobody seems to know quite how the sloth became the rock star of the animal kingdom. From high in the Latin American rainforest, the absurd mammal is the focus of a frenzied obsession that shows no sign of abating. Sloths are on bank notes, adverts, T-shirts, internet memes and Instagram fan pages. “People are obsessed,” […]
The Sloth
There are six species of sloth in the world and all of them live in Central or South America. Sloth have to be one of the more unusual rainforest creatures due to their slow movement and habits. Sloth spend 99% of their lives in the trees and only come to the ground about once a […]