“Most sloths are found high in the treetops of the RAIN FORESTS in CENTRAL and SOUTH AMERICA.”
National Geographic Kids, 5,000 Awesome Facts, fact #3
There are about 1500 sloths, according to World Wild Life fund, left in the world. In Central America, many of these are concentrated in Costa Rica, at Manuel Antonio Beach. Most the time people will not recognize that they just walked by a tree with a sloth hanging just above them. They blend right in with the foliage and with their slow movements make them very hard to detect.
In South America they are located in the tropical forest in the Amazon and can be found in Peru as well. They also reside sometimes in cacao plantations.
They are allowed to be kept as pets after paying $6-10 thousand dollars for a captive bred sloth. The states that allow sloths as personal pets without a permit are as followed;
“… include Alabama, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, South Carolina, Texas, Washington, West Virginia, and Wisconsin. In these states, people are free to own a two-toed pet sloth.”
They are illegal in these states;
Arizona, California, Colorado, Georgia, Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Utah and Vermont.
Must have a permit in the following;
North Dakota, Wyoming, Idaho, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware and New Jersey.
They don’t like to be petted or cleaned, and it is hard to get the kind of leaves South and Central America have that they live on, so they aren’t good for the inexperienced or new pet owner.
http://worldpopulationreview.com
CHARLEY WAFFLE 