Why do sloths climb down from their trees to defecate?
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July 29, 2015
Like all creatures in the animal kingdom, sloths have to excrete metabolic waste in order to keep their bodily functions working properly. In other...Read more
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The question most often asked at the Biodôme: Where’s the sloth?
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June 18, 2015
Another beautiful day begins in the Biodôme’s hot, humid tropical rainforest . I’m already scanning the canopy, looking for a popular, but hard to...Read more
Adventure under the canopy
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October 1, 2014
Once upon a time there was a little female sloth whose lively curiosity about her environment got her into trouble. Her taste for exploration and...Read more
Living in the canopy
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June 13, 2014
Truly lazy? Not at all! The sloth is actually a mammal that’s remarkably well adapted to its arboreal way of life. It’s in this environment, the...Read more
The laid-back life of a sloth
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May 20, 2011
The afternoon draws to a close. Night falls. He awakes. He was curled up asleep, in the highest branches of a tree. Feeling the gnaw of hunger, he...Read more
