Florida ‘slotharium’ shuttered after probe found 31 sloths died in ‘worst conditions possible’

Source: New York Post

The world’s first “slotharium” was slapped with a stop-work order Thursday after a probe alarmingly found 31 sloths had died in the care of the Florida company prior to its grand opening last month. Sloth World Orlando received two shipments of two- and three-toed sloths — one in December 2024 from Guyana and one from Peru in February 2025 — in anticipation of its March 1 opening on the city’s famed International Drive. But 21 of the warm-blooded mammals in the first shipment died from a “cold stun” shortly after arriving in the Sunshine State.