Look closely up in the trees of a shade-grown cacao plantation in eastern Costa Rica, and you’ll see an array of small furry faces peering back at you. Those are three-toed sloths that make their ...

The three-toed sloth is the slowest mammal in the world, known for its incredibly slow movement, low metabolism.

Footage of one of STRI's Bocas del Toro Research Station's resident sloths climbing the trees at the Station. The star of this video is a female Three-toed sloth (Bradypus variegatus). Video by: J.P.

Two-Toed and Three-Toed Sloths Aren’t That Closely Related Credit: Getty Images Despite their similar names, the two types of sloths belong to different families and have different evolutionary ...