Two-toed Sloth Baby Hand-raised by Zoo

Central Florida Zoo staff are one of a few U.S. facilities to hand-raise a two-toed sloth baby. After a normal birth early May, the infant had failed to nurse naturally with its mother. The baby became weak from dehydration and fell off its mother, so zookeepers intervened. Central Florida Zoo staff report that the baby is doing well.
Sloths are the world's slowest-moving mammals. Two-toed sloths thrive in Central and South America. But some types of three-toed sloths, which are more sluggish than their two-toed cousins, are endangered due to hunting, habitat loss and attacks by pet dogs. Also, the creatures turn up as accidental road kill. All sloths are treedwellers after their ground forefathers went extinct 10,000 years ago
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