They eat, sleep, mate, and give birth while hanging upside-down—a feat made possible by ... Whatever the details, the ensuing gestation period is between five and six months, and then the female sloth ...

The zoo said the tiny baby came into the world "like all sloths - upside down just as it will eat and sleep". Weighing 340g (12 oz) and measuring about 28 cm (11 in) long, it is not known yet what ...

(Dead sloths have been known to retain their grip and remain suspended from a branch.) Sloths even sleep in trees, and they sleep a lot—some 15 to 20 hours every day. Even when awake they often ...

Zoologist and broadcaster Lucy Cooke, holding a baby sloth I started my investigation ... insouciant turn of the head before going back to sleep (with her head wedged inside a ceiling lamp for ...

In fact, sloths sleep, mate, and even give birth all while hanging upside down on a branch. And, as you might expect, that requires some pretty extreme adaptations. Cliffe: They've got special ...