Worlds Oldest Sloth Sets Guinness World Record

This adorable sloth has made it into the Guinness World Records as the oldest of her kind after celebrating her 50th birthday.

Paula has lived in Halle Zoo in the city of Halle, the largest city of the German state of Saxony-Anhalt since 1971 and for the first twenty years of her life keepers believed she was male until an ultrasound scan revealed otherwise.

Paula is a Linne’s two-toed sloth who came to Germany from South America, where she was captured in the wild. After her arrival at Halle Zoo she was estimated to be at least two-years-old.