Palm Beach Zoo & Conservation Society officials this week unveiled a lush habitat for probably their cutest residents, a trio of tiny golden-fur monkeys and a father-son pair of smiling sloths.
The zoo on Thursday opened the new exhibit to the public, a larger enclosure for golden lion tamarins Blitz, Gabriel, and Rosie, and their habitat-mates, Hoffmann’s two-toed sloths named Dustin and Fern. The habitat is much larger than their previous home in the zoo, giving “some of the most charismatic guys” there ample room to climb and wander, zoo representatives tell New Times.
Both species are native to the dense jungles of Central and South America, so zoo staff designed the new habitat to resemble the cloud forests of Brazil with tall trees and limbs to climb. The tamarins, which are small, furry monkeys about the size of a squirrel, swung about the branches and vines of the enclosure, making high-pitched trills during New Times‘ visit on Wednesday…