Imagine standing in the heart of a dense, green jungle, where the hush of nature is suddenly broken by the soft cry of a baby ...

Tamara Ávila Atagua of The Sloth Conservation Foundation builds rope bridges between trees to help Costa Rican sloths remain ...

An award-winning zoologist, her spirited right-hand woman, and their sloth-sniffing rescue dog team up in Costa Rica’s lush jungles for the first-ever ...

Bowie, a sloth bear cub, will debut this weekend at Woodland Park Zoo, joining mom Kushali in their outdoor habitat, weather ...

Joe the Linnaeus two-toed Sloth wants to share his new friend, Jango, the tiger, who came to Zoo Knoxville in March. Drop by ...

Costa Rica has enlightened wildlife protection laws guided by the motto "when in doubt, favor nature." But the sheer number of tourists seeking wildlife encounters can stress or harm the animals ...

A new addition has joined the Stone Zoo. Zoo staff announced a two-toed sloth was born on Wednesday. The baby, whose gender ...

Costa Rica’s highways are packed with animal lovers searching for a glimpse of a sloth or red-eyed tree frog. Too many of the ...

and their dog work to save Costa Rica’s sloth populations in groundbreaking ways, all while capturing rarely seen wild sloth behaviors and reimagining what it means to be a woman in conservation.

Sloths eat a primarily vegetarian diet of leaves and shoots and spend around 15 hours a day sleeping, according to the zoo. The new baby can be seen in the zoo’s Windows to the Wild habitat.