the southern maned sloth, and the pygmy three-toed sloth. In complete contrast to past morphological studies, which tended to place Bradypus as the sister group to all other folivorans, molecular ...
Sloths—the adorable and lethargic animals living in treetops—depend on the health and survival of Central and South American tropical forests. They spend much of their lives in the canopy, snoozing ...
SWANSEA, United Kingdom — In the lush rainforests of Central and South America, sloths have perfected the art of energy conservation. These slow-moving mammals have evolved to exist on an extremely ...
The study, titled "Sloth Metabolism May Make Survival Untenable Under Climate Change Scenarios," investigates how two-fingered sloths (Choloepus hoffmanni), living in both highland and lowland ...
Sloths are more vulnerable to the rising temperatures associated with climate change than other mammals, due to their unique physiology. In a new study, my colleagues and I found that sloths’ ability ...
Central and South America’s sloth populations may face a dire existential threat from climate change by the end of the century. New research published on September 27 in the journal PeerJ ...