sloth fever originated from sloths in Trinidad and spreads primarily through mosquito bites and midges, a type of small fly.

The sloth in the video above appears to be an adult pale-throated three-toed sloth, or Bradypus tridactylus. Their native habitat is the canopies of tropical rainforests in Central and South America.

According to a caption for this video from TikTok user sandiegozoo, these sloth bear cubs are very important ... and decided to let the bear puns fly as they struggled not to succumb to cuteness ...