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Opossums probably diverged from the basic South American marsupials in the late Cretaceous or early Paleocene. They are small to medium-sized marsupials, about the size of a large house cat, with a long snout and prehensile tail. Family: Didelphidae (American opossums) Subfamily: Caluromyinae. Genus: Caluromys. Derby's woolly opossum, Caluromys ...
In addition to the Greater Antillean sloths, some other pilosans are still extant on islands close to the Central and South American mainland. This includes several anteaters and a member of the other extant sloth family, that of the three-toed sloths , restricted to a small island in Panama. [ 10 ]
Central America and northern South America: Size: 42–80 cm (17–31 in) long, plus 2–9 cm (1–4 in) tail [5] Habitat: Forest [6] Diet: Leaves, flowers, and fruit of Cecropia trees [7] LC Unknown [6] Maned sloth. B. torquatus Illiger, 1811: Eastern South America: Size: 45–50 cm (18–20 in) long, plus 4–5 cm (2 in) tail [8] Habitat ...
The brown-throated three-toed sloth (Bradypus variegatus) is the most common of the extant species of sloth, which inhabits the Neotropical realm [1] [9] in the forests of South and Central America. The pale-throated three-toed sloth (Bradypus tridactylus), which inhabits tropical rainforests in northern South America. It is similar in ...
South America's 20 genera of nonhuman primates compares with 6 in Central America, 15 in Madagascar, 23 in Africa and 19 in Asia. All South American monkeys are believed to be descended from ancestors that rafted over from Africa about 25 million years ago in a single dispersal event. Suborder: Haplorrhini. Infraorder: Simiiformes
A number of sloths were also formerly present on the Antilles, which they reached from South America by some combination of rafting or floating with the prevailing currents. Together with the armadillos , which are in the order Cingulata, pilosans are part of the larger superorder Xenarthra , a defining characteristic of which is the presence ...
Hoffmann's two-toed sloth climbing in a cage at Ueno Zoo (video) The Hoffmann's two-toed sloth (Choloepus hoffmanni), also known as the northern two-toed sloth, is a species of sloth from Central and South America. It is a solitary, largely nocturnal and arboreal animal, found in mature and secondary rainforests and deciduous forests.
Pale-throated sloth: Part of northern South America, including Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, eastern Venezuela and Brazil north of the Amazon River B. variegatus: Brown-throated sloth: Central America and much of north and central South America, from Honduras through Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, eastern Peru, Bolivia and Brazil B. crinitus