Have you heard about the sloths strange bathroom habits? Well... they only poop once a week, they will only do it on the ground and they can lose up to 30% of their body weight at once! Not only this, but they also perform a ritual known as the "poop dance" - this essentially involves wiggling around at the base of a tree to create a hole in which to defecate. Some sloths do this very quickly, while others take several minutes of dancing before they are fully satisfied with their efforts! You ca

How pups and poop can help sloths? Join our sloth scat detection dog Keysha on a day at work. Both sloth species in Costa Rica are classified by the IUCN as 'Least Concern.' However, we know sloth populations are in decline based on our observations, and recently, the Costa Rican authorities declared sloths as threatened. The Great Sloth Census is a research project aimed at determining how many sloths there are and how many there should be, to assess the IUCN classification. Why is this importa

A three-fingered baby sloth that fell out of a tree was reunited with its mom after staff members at the Jaguar Rescue Center in Costa Rica played back a recording of the sound of its cries. | CNN