Sloths live out their lives dallying upside down from the branches of trees. If you are a veterinarian called upon to take a sloth's pulse, or check its large teeth and sharp, crescent-moon claws, you let it hang around your office.
"It's not upside down for her. It's normal," said Dr. Paul Calle, putting his stethoscope to the belly of Frankie, a 13-year-old sloth who has lived out her life, slowly and contentedly, at the Bronx Zoo. "It would be stressful for her to be right side up, like a dog."
Calle, 50, of Danbury, is the director of zoological health -- the chief vet -- for the Wildlife Conservation Society and its five New York facilities: the Bronx Zoo, the Central Park Zoo, the Prospect Park Zoo in Brooklyn, the Queens Zoo and the New York Aquarium.
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