It was a leap of faith that led me to Costa Rica to work with sloths. Little did I know that six sweet and very special creatures…

We all know that wonderful feeling when we arrive at our destination and find the nearest bathroom. Many times, we throw our heads back and give a…

The first time I met Leslie Howle, the founder of Toucan Rescue Ranch, we were at a wildlife conference in San José five years ago. Leslie had…

We here at the Toucan Rescue Ranch receive many baby sloths for a variety of reasons. All of them are orphans who have either lost their mothers…

Last December, we received a call from MINAE informing us that they were bringing us an orphaned sloth. It had been found lying in a stream high…

Long before a teary-eyed Kristen Bellprofessed her love for sloths on daytime television, catapulting the slow-moving creature into Internet superstardom, the sloth may have been one of…

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…

Sloths aren't known for moving fast, but their metabolism is also pretty slow. It can take a sloth up to 30 days to digest one leaf. In…

Did you know that sloths can turn their heads almost all the way around? A sloth can turn its head up to 270 degrees, looking almost completely…