baby slotBaby sloths can live on their own after 6-11 months. Depending on the sloth species, a young sloth could already afford to be separated from its mother at around 6- 11Three-toed sloth crossing a road in Costa Rica. Sloths are a Neotropical group of xenarthran mammals constituting the suborder Folivora, including the extant arboreal tree sloths