For its part, Bustamante (2008) documented that the white-lipped peccary, the two-toed sloth (
Choloepus hoffmanni) and the coati (Nasua narica) were the main items found in Golfo Dulce Forest Reserve in the Osa Peninsula.
Use of hands and feet of twotoed sloths (
Choloepus hoffmanni) during climbing and terrestrial locomotion.
The animals analyzed were 18 three-toed sloths (Bradypus tridactylus), one two-toed sloth (
Choloepus didactylus), one black dwarf porcupine (Coendou nycthemera), six southern tamanduas (Tamandua tetradactyla), 25 red-tailed boa (Boa constrictor), one green anaconda (Eunectes murinus), two green iguanas (Iguana iguana), and two Amazon false fer-de-lances (Xenodon severus).
El "perezoso de dos dedos" (
Choloepus didactylus), asi como el "oso melero" o "tamandua" (Tamandua tetradactila) y otros marsupiales y roedores, pueden hospedar Leishmania guyanensis.
Unusual observation of an ocelot (Leopardus pardalis) eating an adult Linnaeus's two-toed sloth (
Choloepus didactylus).
At a site in Costa Rica, researchers vacuumed the fur of strict tree-descenders, the brown-throated three-toed sloths (Bradypus variegatus), and of Hoffmann's two-toed sloths (
Choloepus hoffmanni), which sometimes climb down and sometimes don't bother.
Activity patterns and rates of movement of two-toed and three-toed sloths (
Choloepus hoffmanni and Bradypus infuscatus).
Chucha -- CINGULATA Dasypodidae Dasypus novemcinctus Armadillo 1 PILOSA Megalonychidae
Choloepus hoffmanni Perezoso -- Myrmecophagidae Tamandua mexicana Hormiguero -- CARNIVORA Canidae Canidae sp.
In some locations, ocelots prey heavily on mammals weighing >4 kg, such as howler monkeys (Alouatta; Abreu et al., 2008; Bianchi and Mendes, 2007), sloths (Bradypus variegatus and
Choloepus hoffmanni; Moreno et al., 2006), and pacas (Cuniculus paca; Bianchi et al., 2010).
renale was found in bush dog (Speothos venaticus) (6), southern two-toed sloth (
Choloepus didactylus) (7), crab-eating fox (Cerdocyon thous) (8) and maned wolf (Chrysocyon brachyurus) (9).