Sago, 6 years old, went into labor on April 2, surprising senior zookeeper Jill Erzar. Although Erzar had suspected Sago was expecting her first baby — having been intentionally paired with a male for ...

and that's especially useful when you spend nearly all of your time motionless in a tree. In fact, sloths sleep, mate, and even give birth all while hanging upside down on a branch. And ...

(Dead sloths have been known to retain their grip and remain suspended from a branch.) Sloths even sleep in trees, and they sleep a lot—some 15 to 20 hours every day. Even when awake they often ...

This unique locking mechanism is also how sloths are able to sleep while hanging from a tree branch, and they have even been known to remain suspended upside down after death! 3. They poo a third ...

and gently places the sloth in a tree. Back in familiar territory, the sloth appears to be all smiles.

He was hard to miss if you were driving to Bellingham. A giant stuffed sloth lived in a tree off Interstate 5 (I-5) near Lake Samish. He is called “Slothy.” The Washington Department of ...

As it turns out, it’s easy to miss when a sloth is expecting. Something similar happened at the Hattiesburg Zoo in 2018 when ...