With the help of a special teddy bear, Kelly-Anne Kelleher, a zookeeper at the ZSL London Zoo, has become this 7-week-old sloth’s surrogate mom. When the baby’s mom stopped producing milk, she was unable to care for the baby, which still had a long way to go before being able to look after himself.
The zoo decided to use a teddy bear from the gift shop to help build up the muscles that the sloth would normally have developed from holding on to his mom.
Because of his impressive claws, the zoo’s keepers named the baby sloth Edward after Johnny Depp’s famous character, Edward Scissorhands.
The ZSL London Zoo is hand-rearing this adorable baby, and strictly monitor his feeding and sleeping schedule.
Watch the entire video below to see just how this teddy bear is helping to raise Edward.
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[Featured image credit: ZSL – Zoological Society of London]