{"id":506795,"date":"2026-10-24T18:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T18:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/506795\/"},"modified":"2026-10-24T18:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T18:30:08","slug":"san-diego-zoo-welcomes-newborn-sloth-in-adorable-video-on-national-sloth-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/506795\/","title":{"rendered":"San Diego Zoo welcomes newborn sloth in adorable video on National Sloth Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A baby sloth was born at the San Diego Zoo \u2014 right in time for National Sloth Day. <\/p>\n<p>The San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance\u00a0announced the arrival of the Linnaeus\u2019s two-toed sloth pup \u2014 complete with an adorable video of the newborn \u2014 on Oct. 20 to mark the holiday.<\/p>\n<p>The little one was welcomed on Aug. 16 by its mother, Xena, who is a wildlife ambassador at the zoo, meaning she participates in presentations, so guests will be able to see the pair in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n<p>The zoo, which spans 100 acres and is home to over 12,000 animals, has not yet announced the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/10\/04\/us-news\/adorable-newborn-sloth-named-beanies-baby-makes-its-public-debut-at-pa-zoo\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">newborn\u2019s name<\/a> \u2014 but its Instagram video of the baby snuggled up to its mother and eating lettuce sparked heartwarming comments.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cXena\u2019s pup peeking out of all that fluff made my whole morning. I love that she\u2019s raising her baby while ambassading for <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/06\/10\/baby-two-toed-sloth-the-first-of-its-species-to-be-born-at-ohio-zoo\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">two-toed sloth<\/a>,\u201d one wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOh my gawwwwssshhhhh \ud83d\ude0d That sweet little face. Welcome to the world little one,\u201d another added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy spirit animal,\u201d someone else added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A baby sloth was born at the San Diego Zoo \u2014 right in time for National Sloth Day.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":506796,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[2113,115434,7644,971,74,76,75,3343],"class_list":["post-506795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-animals","tag-cute-animals","tag-instagram","tag-lifestyle","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-zoos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=506795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/506796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}