A sloth family is seen safely recovering after being rescued from trafficking. The male, mother sloth and her baby were recently intercepted and brought to safety at the International Animal Rescue ...

A baby sloth has been reunited with its mother in Costa Rica after it got separated from her in a coastal forest. Staff at the Jaguar Rescue Center on the Central American country’s Playa Chiquita ...

Many animals, like humans, feel all sorts of emotions, such as love and grief, especially regarding their offspring. The Jaguar Rescue Center captured such a moment in their video, posted on October ...

The mother 3-toed sloth climbed down from the tree she was in after hearing her baby's call Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2013, covering pets, animal ...

Conservationists were doing field work in Costa Rica when they heard a “faint cry” coming from the trees. Then they found a three-fingered newborn sloth crying after it had been separated from its ...

The Central Florida Zoo shared heartfelt news on Facebook that Habanero, the sloth, sadly passed away Sunday morning after his condition worsened rapidly. According to the post, he was one of the most ...

Rescuers in Venezuela recently saved a sloth trapped on electrical lines, a scene that played out on social media and drew attention to a wider problem plaguing wildlife in the region. The animal, ...

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 ...

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