VIDEO: Drusillas sloths celebrate Pancake Day

Tossing aside the conventional recipe, the savoury style crepes were created from sweet potato topped with a sprinkling of sweetcorn, and served to Flash and Gordon in a frying pan by deputy head keeper, Sophie Leadbitter.

Sweet potato is a sloth favourite, and provides vital nutrients to these wonderfully lazy animals. The platter was cleared in surprising speed for a sloth, proving that this was one pancake treat that did not fall flat.

Head Keeper, Mark Kenward, said, “As we are a fruit-free zoo, something like sweet potato makes the perfect treat for our animals. All fruit items have been removed from our plant-eater’s diets completely and replaced by vegetable alternatives.