On a busy tourist strip in Orlando, behind noisy bars and souvenir shops, 21 sloths in crates reached the end of a grueling international trip. Soon, they would all be dead. The tree-dwelling mammals ...

Sloths are slow-moving, arboreal mammals living in Central and South America. The two types of sloths are the two-toed sloth and the three-toed sloth. Three-toed sloths are strictly herbivorous, while ...

An exotic animal exhibitor who was shut down in New York is now attempting to bring his controversial animals to South ...

Zara Palmer / Toucan Rescue Ranch. In life, we say many goodbyes. While some are sad, others denote new beginnings and future opportunities. Such were the goodbyes that I said today, as I helped load ...

It’s pretty surprising to see a 27-year-old jump into her mother’s arms and insist on being held like a baby. At The Sloth Sanctuary outside of Cahuita, Costa Rica, though, such a sight is ordinary.

The footage shows a sloth clinging to a treetop in the Peruvian jungle as two men hack at the trunk. As the tree plummets 100 feet down to Earth, the sloth comes with it. The men, illegal loggers, ...

A Costa Rica rescue center offers blankets and bottle-feeding at a nursery for these young animals Photographs by Annie Marie Musselman Text by Niko Zlotnik Hoffmann’s two-toed sloth babies need round ...