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Tree sloths: Medium-sized folivores specialized for life hanging upside-down in trees; Ground sloths: Medium to very large ground-living herbivores (and possibly omnivores) Aquatic sloths: Thalassocnus, a medium-sized herbivore, is the only known aquatic sloth
The common name derives from kuntur, via Spanish. [16] [17] Camas : asparagid: Nez Perce: From qémĚ“es ("sweet") Canihua (Chenopodium pallidicaule) amaranth: Quechua: From qañiwa / qañawa / qañawi [27] [46] Caribou (Rangifer tarandus) deer: Mi'kmaq: From qalipu ("snow shoveler"), referring to its habit of pawing through the snow for food ...
Ground sloths are a diverse group of extinct sloths in the mammalian superorder Xenarthra. They varied widely in size with the largest, belonging to genera Lestodon, Eremotherium and Megatherium, being around the size of elephants. Ground sloths represent a paraphyletic group, as living tree sloths are thought to have evolved from ground sloth ...
Sloths are a Neotropical group of xenarthran mammals constituting the suborder Folivora, including the extant arboreal tree sloths and extinct terrestrial ground sloths. Noted for their slowness of movement, tree sloths spend most of their lives hanging upside down in the trees of the tropical rainforests of South America and Central America .
Herbivory is of extreme ecological importance and prevalence among insects.Perhaps one third (or 500,000) of all described species are herbivores. [4] Herbivorous insects are by far the most important animal pollinators, and constitute significant prey items for predatory animals, as well as acting as major parasites and predators of plants; parasitic species often induce the formation of galls.
The latter results indicate that Choloepodidae is closer to Mylodontidae than Scelidotheriidae is. The only other living sloth family, Bradypodidae (three-toed sloths), belongs to a different sloth radiation, Megatherioidea. [5] [6] The mylodontoids form one of three major radiations of sloths.
Megalonyx appears to be the rarest of the three La Brea ground sloths. Although more closely related to Nothrotheriops, it approached Paramylodon in size. It was a browsing animal preferring woodland and forest. † Shasta ground sloth [65] [67] [69] [70] [11] † Nothrotheriops shastensis: A solitary ground sloth species roughly the size of a ...
Binomial name † Orophodon ... Ameghino, 1894. Orophodon is an extinct genus of ground sloth of the family ... O. hapaloides was a generalist herbivore able to feed ...