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2. Two-toed sloth - Wikipedia

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   The two species of Choloepus (which means "lame foot" in Ancient Greek [5]), Linnaeus's two-toed sloth (Choloepus didactylus) and Hoffmann's two-toed sloth (Choloepus hoffmanni), were formerly believed on the basis of morphological studies to be the only surviving members of the sloth family Megalonychidae, [6] but have now been shown by ...

3. Hoffmann's two-toed sloth - Wikipedia

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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.

4. Linnaeus's two-toed sloth - Wikipedia

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   Linnaeus's two-toed sloth (Choloepus didactylus), also known as the southern two-toed sloth, unau, or Linne's two-toed sloth is a species of sloth from South America, found in Venezuela, Suriname, Guyana, French Guiana, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Brazil north of the Amazon River.

5. The Tragic Loss That Led to a Movement - AOL

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   Studying the Sloth Species. Sloths are native to Central and South America and belong to two families: three-fingered sloths (Bradypus) and two-fingered sloths (Choloepus).

6. Atlanta Zoo ‘Very Excited’ About Birth of Baby Two-Toed Sloth

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7. Sloth - Wikipedia

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   The species of sloths recorded to host arthropods include [29] the pale-throated three-toed sloth, the brown-throated three-toed sloth, and Linnaeus's two-toed sloth. Sloths benefit from their relationship with moths because the moths are responsible for fertilizing algae on the sloth, which provides them with nutrients.

8. When Nature Gets Weird: 50 Odd Facts That May Leave You ... - AOL

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   #32 Sloths Only Poop Once A Week Sloths only go to the ground in two circumstances: to defecate and urinate once every five to seven days or when they cannot move along the canopy due to lack of ...

9. List of mammals of South America - Wikipedia

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   All of these went extinct following the arrival of humans. Extant tree sloths fall into two groups that are not closely related, and which do not form a clade; two-toed sloths are much more closely related to some extinct ground sloths than to three-toed sloths. Suborder: Folivora. Family: Bradypodidae (three-toed sloths) Genus: Bradypus