The sloth in the video above appears to be an adult pale-throated three-toed sloth, or Bradypus tridactylus. Their native habitat is the canopies of tropical rainforests in Central and South America.

To mark the BBC Radio 4 documentary The Power of Sloth, zoologist and author of Life in the Sloth Lane, Lucy Cooke, unleashes her inner sloth to discover why being lazy could actually be the ...

The Hoffman's two-toed sloth is one of the world's slowest mammals—so sedentary that algae grows on its furry coat. The plant gives it a greenish tint that is useful camouflage in the trees of ...