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Also known as sloths
alt=Sloth |thumb|Three-toed sloth crossing a road in Costa Rica 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. Sloths are considered to be most closely related to anteaters, together making up the xenarthran order Pilosa.
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Sloths are slow-moving mammals from Central and South America that spend most of their lives hanging upside down in tropical rainforest trees, and they are closely related to anteaters within a larger group of mammals called xenarthrans. They matter as part of the diverse wildlife of tropical ecosystems and represent an interesting example of how animals can evolve specialized behaviors and body structures suited to their environment.
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Research
1,195 papers- Sloth.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 1996McCormick JDOI: 10.1136/bmj.313.7072.1596
- Palaeoproteomics resolves sloth relationships.Nature ecology & evolution · 2019Presslee S, Slater GJ, Pujos F et al.DOI: 10.1038/s41559-019-0909-z
- Sloth ornaments trace the first Americans.Nature ecology & evolution · 2023Nic Eoin LDOI: 10.1038/s41559-023-02168-9
- Sloth metabolism may make survival untenable under climate change scenarios.PeerJ · 2024Cliffe RN, Ewart HE, Scantlebury DM et al.DOI: 10.7717/peerj.18168
- Sloth biology: an update on their physiological ecology, behavior and role as vectors of arthropods and arboviruses.