The 31 deaths occurred between December 2024 and February 2025, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) said in a report recently released. The majority of the sloths died in an unheated warehouse while awaiting transfer to the still unopened Sloth World exhibit, the report said.

Sloths are the ideal representation of calm: slow-moving, sleepy, and perfectly at ease in the treetops. But life in the wild is never as peaceful as it seems and sloths are part of the ongoing food

The brown-throated sloth (Bradypus variegatus) is a species of three-toed sloth found in the Neotropical realm of Central and South America© Milan Zygmunt/Shutterstock.com It’s not considered polite to talk about it, but we all do it. Some of us are in ...

Look closely up in the trees of a shade-grown cacao plantation in eastern Costa Rica, and you’ll see an array of small furry faces peering back at you. Those are three-toed sloths that make their homes there, clambering ever so slowly into the upper ...