Honolulu Zoo Sloths Welcome Another Baby
Who says sloths are slow movers?
Photo: Courtesy of Honolulu Zoo
The newborn sloth with its mother.
The Honolulu Zoo welcomed a new baby. Harriet, a Linneaus two-toed sloth, gave birth to another little one this afternoon.
Harriet and father Quando have had a child every year since 2015: Opihi that year, Akala in 2016, Tommy in 2017. That is not common. The zoo says that sloths do not easily breed in zoos.
The zoo has set up a live camera on the sloths. Don’t expect too much action. Sloths sleep up to 18 hours a day.
The new baby, whose gender has not yet been determined, will stay with its mom for nine months to a year.
For more about the sloth, see our 2017 article “New Baby Sloth at the Honolulu Zoo“.
