Although he is surely missed by his “children” back in San Isidro, Bilbo has served a great purpose by taking on one of the most difficult but rewarding jobs in the world … being a father.
Originally designed to monitor penguins swimming beneath ice, the sloth backpacks — known by zoologists as daily diaries — can track sloths when they are out of reach in the trees.
With their long claws and strong muscles, sloths have a powerful grip.
Their bodies are so conditioned to hanging from branches that dead sloths have been found still suspended from the branch they were climbing on.
