This beautiful 2 year old earned her name from the slow, deliberate, and cautious way she walked. A vet visit revealed a pelvic fracture—which explained her careful ...

As the Sloth Conservation Foundation writes, Oct. 20 is "more than an excuse to take it easy, it is a day to recognize an important member of tropical ecosystems" Oh hi there! We're just hanging out ...

Sloth Encounters, a Hauppauge business that charges $50 per half-hour to hold, feed and pet sloths, lacks a permit and was operating in violation of the Suffolk sanitary code, a county official said.

A family was visiting an animal center when a sloth suddenly bit a child’s finger, “reaching the bone,” a South Carolina mother said. Candise Gore and her child are suing Charleston Sloth and Exotics ...

CITES, the global wildlife trade regulation, has agreed to implement stricter rules for the trade in two sloth species increasingly targeted by the tourism industry. Thanks to its peaceful and ...

The owner of the pet store claims the teen didn't follow instructions and got too close to the sloth, who he says mistook her arm for an apple. Sloths move about six feet per minute but even these ...

A Suffolk County Supreme Court judge has ordered the Hauppauge-based Sloth Encounters to halt pet sales after finding owner Larry Wallach guilty of violating court orders from March. In a decision ...

A sloth bite injured a child in South Carolina, a lawsuit said. This file photo was taken in New Jersey. SABINA LOUISE PIERCE ASSOCIATED PRESS A family was visiting an animal center when a sloth ...

A sloth bite injured a child in South Carolina, a lawsuit said. This file photo was taken in New Jersey. SABINA LOUISE PIERCE ASSOCIATED PRESS A family was visiting an animal center when a sloth ...