A two-toed sloth is coming to the Science Museum of Virginia.
Why it matters: You won’t get to hold it, but you can get up close and personal with the famously slow creature starting next Saturday.
Driving the news: The sloth is part of a touring exhibition called “Survival of the Slowest that will be in town all summer.
- It’s an educational showcase from Little Ray’s Exhibitions about how animals usually seen as lazy or sluggish actually use those traits to stay alive.
- The exhibition will briefly turn the Science Museum into a mini zoo filled with live creatures like a hedgehog, ball python, bearded dragon, box turtle and a Brazilian black tarantula.
- Visitors can even interact with some of them.
Yes, but: The sloth will stay in its enclosure, museum spokesperson Miles McQuiggan tells Axios…