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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.
Depending on when in the excretion cycle a sloth is weighed, urine and feces may account for up to 30% of the animal's body weight. [25] They get most of their fluids from water in the leaves that they eat but sloths have also been observed drinking directly from rivers. [citation needed]
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Sloths eat and digest food very slowly; it can take them 30 days to digest just one leaf! Because of their slow metabolism, sloths can starve to death even with a full belly.
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Sloths are solitary animals that rarely interact with one another except during breeding season, [39] though female sloths do sometimes congregate, more so than do males. [40] Sloths descend about once every eight days to defecate on the ground. The reason and mechanism behind this behavior have long been debated among scientists.
Family †Megalonychidae: megalonychid ground sloths; Family †Megatheriidae: megatheriid ground sloths; Family †Nothrotheriidae: nothrotheriid ground sloths and aquatic sloths; Family Choloepodidae: two-toed sloths Hoffman's two-toed sloth, Choloepus hoffmanni; Linnaeus's two-toed sloth or southern two-toed sloth, Choloepus didactylus
Endotrypanum schaudinni is a parasite found only in Hoffmann's two-toed sloth (Choloepus hoffmanni). This sloth is found throughout South America in forested areas and this parasite is found throughout the population. Hoffman’s two-toed sloth is the only host species so it is of little economic or medical importance in humans. [1]