Introducing the world's smallest, rarest, and perhaps strangest species of sloth—the critically endangered pygmy sloth! Known scientifically as Bradypus pygmaeus, this dwarf species can only be found the tiny, remote island of Escudo de Veraguas, which lies 17km off the east coast of Panama.🏝🦥 Pygmy sloths live in the island’s forests and mangrove swamps, and are thought to feed mainly on the leaves of red mangrove trees. They’re 40% smaller than their closest mainland cousin, the brown-throat

More Endangered Pygmy Sloths in Panama Than Previously Estimated

Echoes of the Wild A Question, Unanswered My Pygmy 3 Toed Sloth is now named. He's been made with an arm reaching out, but what for? Help? Love, food, survival? The pygmy three-toed sloth status is Critically Endangered by the @iucnred_list, facing extreme threats due to its extremely limited range on the tiny Isla Escudo de Veraguas, Panama, with major dangers including habitat loss from mangrove destruction, tourism, and potential illegal capture, despite being a protected species. "'Shaped by