Because of the sloth’s slow nature and the many hours it spends sleeping in the tree canopy, organisms have a chance to not only land on the sloth’s fur, but also to make it their home.

Sloths have one of the slowest metabolisms in the animal kingdom – and it shows. In this episode, we explain how their ...

Discover the new sloth at Woodland Park Zoo’s tropical aviary, enriching the experience for visitors and wildlife lovers ...

Their fur is crawling with critters Sloth fur is long and coarse, and it features grooves and cracks that make a delightful home for things like beetles, moths, fungi, and (barf) cockroaches.

Why Sloth Fur is Perfect for an Upside-Down Life In mammals, hair parts grow along the spine and flow down the back to the belly. Because sloths spend most of their life upside-down in the trees ...

Sampling the fur of captive animals from The Sloth Sanctuary, co-author Max Chavarría and fellow University of Costa Rica researchers found a range of organisms that have the potential to keep ...

The researchers found that three-toed sloths can harbor more phoretic moths than their two-toed counterparts because of greater concentrations of inorganic nitrogen and higher algal biomass in their ...

Sloth fur, research has found, hosts bustling communities of insects, algae, fungi and bacteria, among other microbes, some of which could pose disease risk.