Vasi the sloth bear is using his new limb to dig, climb and play at Bannerghatta Bear Rescue Centre in India Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2013. Her ...

Tiger: This wild animal sleeps a lot to conserve energy for hunting and sleeps for 16 to 20 hours. Python: This crawling creature has low metabolism and can sleep for 18 hours a day. Koala: This cute ...

Elmwood Park Zoo in Norristown, Pennsylvania, just got a whole lot cuter. Zookeepers are celebrating their newest star, a one-month-old sloth born to their beloved resident, Beanie. The adorable new ...

There is a new Beanie Baby in town and fans can see it in public for the first time on Wednesday, Oct. 1. The furry friend, currently known as “Beanie’s Baby,” was born on Aug. 26 at Elmwood Park Zoo ...

Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Reading and a master’s in wildlife documentary production from the University of Salford. Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in ...

The Erie Zoo welcomed a Linneaus’s two-toed sloth named Coconut from the St. Louis Aquarium. Zoo officials believe the Erie Zoo environment will be better suited for Coconut. Coconut arrived earlier ...

Denverites willing to brave the heat and visit the Denver Zoo Conservation Alliance this summer may be able to sneak a peek at a new baby sloth snoozing and snuggling in the treetops of the Tropical ...

Defecating exposes sloths to predators on the jungle floor. An unexpected ally benefits, and returns the favor. A brown-throated three-toed sloth peers over a tree's buttress root while defecating on ...

A wild sloth slowly crawling on the grassy ground in the Peruvian rainforest. Captured during a wildlife exploration in Peru, this rare moment highlights the unique behavior and movement of this ...

Today, sloths are slow-moving, tree-dwelling creatures that live in Central and South America and can grow up to 2.5 feet long. Thousands of years ago, however, some sloths walked along the ground, ...

The sloth family tree once sported a dizzying array of branches, body sizes and lifestyles, from small and limber tree climbers to lumbering bear-sized landlubbers. Why sloth body size was once so ...

A cooling, drying climate turned sloths into giants – before humans potentially drove the huge animals to extinction. Today’s sloths are small, famously sluggish herbivores that move through the ...