Baby Sloths Speak with Sloth Squeaks

As Lucy Cooke, the creator of the website Slothville.com puts it, the sqeaks that a baby sloth makes “goes straight for your ovaries and makes you want to protect the baby sloths.” For those of us who don’t have ovaries, I would have to say it still brings out the deep natural drive to nurture a helpless creature.

In this National Geographic interview, Lucy talks about why the baby sloths squeak like this and also mentions an important tropical forest study that was conducted in Panama that suggests that sloths are one of the most successful mammals in the rainforest. (more…)