Baloo from “The Jungle Book” was inspired by the sloth bears of India.

Celebrate International Sloth Day with five Odd News stories of the slow-moving species breaking records and getting up to mischief.

While filming Eat, Pray, Love in India, actor Julia Roberts visited the sanctuary and chose the name Odum for the bear, ...

Conservationists were doing field work in Costa Rica when they heard a “faint cry” coming from the trees. Then they found a three-fingered newborn sloth crying after it had been separated from its ...

A baby sloth has been reunited with its mother in Costa Rica after it got separated from her in a coastal forest. Staff at the Jaguar Rescue Center on the Central American country’s Playa Chiquita ...

Crossing the road can be dangerous for the sloths. Fortunately, there are people to help. Christy Fromel, a member of the loosely organized "Citizen Sloth Patrol", searches for sloths on a road not ...

The mother 3-toed sloth climbed down from the tree she was in after hearing her baby's call Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2013, covering pets, animal ...

Sloths carry entire ecosystems in their fur, descend from the canopy to perform rituals that sustain hidden life cycles, and ...