It's Breakfast Time for Baby Sloth

A baby Linne’s Two-toed Sloth, born on February 3 at the
Minnesota Zoo, is slowly making its public debut. The infant is only the second Sloth born at
the zoo and is a significant achievement for the Sloth breeding program.

The
baby’s gender is not yet known, and it spends most of its time clinging to
mom. The video below captures mom and
baby nibbling a nutritious breakfast of carrots, squash, hard-boiled eggs, and romaine
lettuce, hand-delivered by zoo keepers.
In the wild, Sloths eat leaves, small twigs, berries, flowers, fruit,
and occasionally insects and small prey.

Photo Credits: Minnesota Zoo

Sometimes
called the slowest animals on earth, Sloths live high in the rain forest canopy
of Central America and northern South America.
Their slow movements allow them to conserve energy and avoid detection
from predators like Harpy Eagles and Jaguars.
Sloths sleep, eat, mate,
and give birth hanging upside down in trees. They are also excellent swimmers.