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Bradypus tridactylus (Pilosa: Bradypodidae) [PDF]

Mammalian Species, 2009
Bradypus tridactylus Linnaeus, 1758, is commonly called the pale-throated sloth. Males have a middorsal speculum. B. tridactylus is endemic to rain forests of northeastern South America. Like other sloths, B. tridactylus is a high-canopy folivore. It has a commensal relationship with the algae and invertebrates that live in its abundant pelage.
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Bradypus variegatus (Pilosa: Bradypodidae) [PDF]

Mammalian Species, 2010
Abstract Bradypus variegatus Schinz, 1825 (the brown-throated three-toed sloth), is 1 of 4 extant three-toed sloths. A high-canopy folivore, B. variegatus is distributed over southern Central America and northern and central South America and is listed as Least Concern by the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources because ...
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Session 1D Conservation of the Pygmy sloth, Bradypus pygmaeus [PDF]

, 2021
The pygmy sloth, endemic to the island of Escudo de Veraguas is significantly understudied in regard to ecological requirements, life history and reproduction. As a result their conservation efforts are at the bare minimum. They are critically endangered
Copcutt, Paige
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Bradypus torquatus (Pilosa: Bradypodidae) [PDF]

Mammalian Species, 2009
Abstract Bradypus torquatus Illiger, 1811 is a three-toed sloth commonly called the maned three-toed sloth. It is endemic to the Atlantic coastal forests of southeastern Brazil. Occasionally placed in its own genus (Scaeopus), the black mane of this three-toed sloth is distinctive. Like other sloths, B.
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A Fauna de Morcegos Fósseis como Ferramenta na Caracterização de Paleoambientes Quaternários. [PDF]

, 2007
This study proposes to reconstruct the paleoenvironment from Quaternary sites of the caves in the sertão baiano and Lagoa Santa region during the Pleistocene.
Alexandre Granhen, Bruno Bret Gil, Débora Gabriel Costa, Gisele Regina Winck, Leonardo Santos Avilla, Vanessa Maria Rodrigues Francisco   +5 more
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New Records ofBradypus torquatus(Pilosa: Bradypodidae) from Southern Sergipe, Brazil [PDF]

Edentata, 2009
One of the main threats to the survival of the endangered maned sloth (Bradypus torquatus) is its relatively restricted geographic range, especially in comparison with the other mainland species of the genus (Aguiar and Fonseca, 2008; Chiarello, 2008). This range is basically restricted to the coastal Atlantic Forest between eastern Rio de Janeiro and ...
Renata Rocha Déda Chagas, João Pedro Souza-Alves, Leandro Jerusalinsky, Stephen F. Ferrari   +3 more
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Atlantic mammal traits: a dataset of morphological traits of mammals in the atlantic forest of south America [PDF]

, 2018
Measures of traits are the basis of functional biological diversity. Numerous works consider mean species-level measures of traits while ignoring individual variance within species.
Agostini, Ilaria, Alvarez, Martín R., Baumgarten, Julio, Beca, Gabrielle, Bello, Carolina, Bernard, Enrico, Bovendorp, Ricardo S., Carvalho, Fernando, Cherem, Jorge J., Costa Pereira, Raul, Costa, Leonora Pires, Cruz-Neto, Ariovaldo P., Cáceres, Nilton, Duarte, José M. B., Faria, Deborah, Fischer, Erich, Goncalves, Fernando Hugo, Graipel, Maurício E., Lamattina, Daniela, Leite, Yuri L. R., Mello, Marco Aurelio Ribeiro, Muylaert, Renata L., Pardini, Renata, Passos, Fernando C., Paviolo, Agustin Javier, Prevedello, Jayme A., Reis Percequillo, Alexandre, Rodarte, Raisa R., Souza, Rafael, Vanderhoeven, Ezequiel Andres, Varzinczak, Luiz H., Vieira, Emerson M., Villar, Nacho   +32 more
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Reconsidering mammal extinctions in the Pernambuco Endemism Center of the Brazilian Atlantic Forest [PDF]

, 2018
Reconsiderando la extinción de mamíferos en el Centro de Endemismo Pernambuco perteneciente al bosque atlántico brasileño Se ha calculado que, en los últimos 500 años, se han extinguido 21 mamíferos en el Centro de Endemismo Pernambuco.
Feijó, A., Fernandes–Ferreira, H., Garbino, G. S. T., Rezende, G. C.   +3 more
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Diversity, abundance and the impact of hunting on large mammals in two contrasting forest sites in northern amazon

Wildlife Biology, Volume 21, Issue 5, Page 234-245, September 2015., 2015
A variety of Amazonian mammals serve as sources of food for its human inhabitants, but hunting can have a strong negative impact on them. Diversity, abundance, biomass, and average group size of medium‐sized and large mammals are compared across two forest areas of the northern Amazon: the Viruá National Park (protected) and the Novo Paraíso settlement
Éverton Renan de Andrade Melo, José Ramon Gadelha, Maria de Nazaré Domingos da Silva, Antonio Paulo da Silva Júnior, Antonio Rossano Mendes Pontes   +4 more
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Morphology, molecular phylogeny, and taxonomic inconsistencies in the study ofBradypussloths (Pilosa: Bradypodidae) [PDF]

Journal of Mammalogy, 2011
This study focuses on morphological and molecular data analyses, misidentifications, and phylogenetic inconsistencies regarding Bradypus variegatus (the brown-throated sloth) and B. tridactylus (the pale-throated sloth). Misidentifications were recorded on 75 of 313 museum specimens of Bradypus.
Nadia de Moraes-Barros, Juliana A. B. Silva, João Stenghel Morgante   +2 more
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