Sloths

Linne’s Two-toed sloths, Flo and Reggie, welcomed their second offspring two weeks ago and keepers are now busy thinking of a name for the newest arrival.

Unlike most other arboreal species, sloths also will go down to the ground about once a week to defecate or urinate, rather then just letting their waste drop down from above.

You can see tropical birds, frogs and insects, monkeys, sloths, and even jungle cats.

In fact, the article revealed that sloths were “often missing fingers and toes, sometimes the entire lower arm would be missing, sometimes the entire limb.

Time travelers visiting the continent tens of thousands of years ago might have come face-to-face with animals towering sloths and even a cheetah.

But let’s give a little love to the two-fingered sloths.

Other megafaunal species such as giant ground sloths and pampatheres - another armored armadillo-like animal - died out at this time.

Visit our Facebook page to hear Miss Pat read “Sloths Don’t Run” by Tori McGee.

Come join us and do yoga with REAL sloths from the Columbus Zoo before midterms and finals!

Here are some pictures of sloths.

You got to hold the sloths.

As the 2017-2018 high season continues, those leafy branches will shade monkeys, sloths, birds, and plenty of human visitors as well.

There will be an ugly sweater contest for the chance to win a behind the scenes tour with our sloths.

When sloths leave the safety of their mother, they adopt part of their parent's home range, through frequent calls, according to the WWF.

Evolutionary relationships among extinct and extant sloths: the evidence of mitogenomes and retroviruses.

Islands began to form between South and North America in the Late Miocene, allowing ground sloths like Thinobadistes to island-hop to North America.