We saw a sloth up in a tree..as we were looking at that sloth we noticed the baby sloth on the ground..the 1 in the tree was maybe a year old and not the mother..we searched everywhere for the mother and could not find..that's when we decided to contact animal rescue..we wanted to ensure no other animals got to the sloth..it was quite an experience..I feel bad it doesn't have it's mother but from what we were told another sloth will accept it into its family and help raise it..thank you for commenting