It is with a very heavy heart that we announce the passing of Buttercup on Friday, June 28, 2019. She died peacefully in her sleep at age 27, the oldest captive-living Bradypus in the world. She symbolized everything the Sloth Sanctuary set out to achieve: to care for injured, orphaned and abandoned sloths. Buttercup was catapulted to international recognition from the wildly popular Animal Planet series “Meet the Sloths” enjoyed by all ages around the world. But we knew her as the first sloth w
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We posted a question sticker on our story this morning and this was the most asked question! 🦥 The only way to accurately age a wild sloth is through telomeric analysis, and in-depth studies of this kind have not yet been done! Captive two-fingered (Choloepus) sloths are known to reach 40-50 years old, however, sloths were not bred in captivity until 50 years ago and so there has been little chance for any individual to exceed this figure. While the oldest known three-fingered sloth, Buttercup,
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