This unique locking mechanism is also how sloths are able to sleep while hanging from a tree branch ... in sloth fur have been found to be active against certain strains of bacteria, cancer ...

(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 ...

As the video from the Cincinnati Zoo's TikTok page shows, Juno was still hanging from a tree branch (upside down ... Most of us believe that sloths sleep a little more than humans do.

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

and that's especially useful when you spend nearly all of your time motionless in a tree. In fact, sloths sleep, mate, and even give birth all while hanging upside down on a branch. And ...

Sloths like to sleep in trees. So let's start by climbing a tree so that our sloth can go to sleep. Slowly, really slowly. Let's begin to climb. Sometimes we can feel tired and that's okay.