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The nests are so sturdy that people in Poland used to repurpose them as shoes for children. The maned sloth is a masked animal endemic to Brazil. ©Eduardo Menezes/Shutterstock.com The maned sloth is ...

SAN DIEGO (KGTV) – Two maned wolves have a new home at the San Diego Zoo. Eight-year-old Cora and 9-year-old Rio recently arrived at the Zoo and have been exploring their new habitat in Northern ...

The largest canid in South America, maned wolves have a reddish coat, long, thin legs and large, pointed ears. The San Diego Zoo has welcomed two maned wolves from AZA accredited zoos — 8-year ...

Two near-threatened maned wolves have been brought to San Diego, the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance announced Monday. You can see 8-year-old Cora and 9-year-old Rio digging and sniffing around ...

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In September 2022, researchers announced the naming of a new species of sloth, the southern maned sloth (Bradypus crinitus), which lives in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest and has a head like a coconut.

Mike Bock Maned wolf Elliana (above) gave birth to one of the three pups born this winter at the Zoo’s conservation and research campus in Front Royal, Virginia. Smithsonian/Jessica Kordell In ...

The Louisville Zoo said goodbye to its last remaining maned wolf, Sadie. She was 12 years old.The zoo said Sadie was humanely euthanized after a decline in health related to her age and a long ...

The maned wolf has unique “socks” on each of its legs ... appropriate consistency that convinced early whalers that it had to be sperm. Not only are sloth babies the cutest ever, but the sloth is ...