They eat animal matter like bird eggs, nestlings and a wide variety of insects, lizards and carrion. In the zoo, they eat carrots, yams, corn on the cob, spinach, bananas, seasonal fruits, omnivore biscuits, marmoset diet and monkey biscuits. In the wild they hang most of their lives with their faces turned up and back facing down. They spend most of their days sleeping. They eat sleep and mate and give birth upside down.
Sloths only come down on the ground about once a week to defecate and urinate.
They don't stay on the ground long because they have a lot of difficulty moving, which makes them very vulnerable to predators. At the Brandywine Zoo there are two sloths, a male and a female. The male's name is Speedy. The female whose name is Cali was born on October 25, 1999. She came from the Virginia Zoological Park in Norfolk, Virginia.