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A baby Northern two toed sloth (Choloepus hoffmanni) eating tree leaves in Costa Rica

by Erika (WhiteEye2)

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Hoffman's Two-toed Sloth Choloepus hoffmanni

A sloth from Central and South America. They often move slowly through the canopy for about eight hours each night, and spend much of the day sleeping in tangles of lianas. They move only very slowly, typically at around 0.14 m/s (0.46 ft/s), although they can move up to 50% faster when excited.

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Linnaeus's Two-Toed Sloth, photographed by Susan Gerber, (source)

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Linnaeus’s Two-toed Sloth (Choloepus didactylus) - (c) SaritaWolf - please do not repost

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Continuing with #TwoFingeredSloth week, today we'll introduce you the chocolate sloth: Linnaeus's sloth!

Linnaeus’s two-fingered sloth is of similar appearance to C. hoffmanni, but has much darker coloration on the snout, hands, and feet.

Choloepus didactylus, literally “lame-foot” and “two-fingered”, is the scientific name of the Linnaeus two-fingered sloth, named after the very same Carl Linnaeus; the prominent figure of natural biology and father of taxonomy.

This species ranges from Venezuela, the Guyanas, and Colombia to Ecuador, Peru, and Brazil north of the Amazon River. There is some evidence to suggest that they also extend into Bolivia.

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Source: The Sloth Conservation Foundation Facebook Page

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Hoffmann's two-toed sloth (Choloepus hoffmanni)

Photo by Sylvere Corre

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Happy International Sloth Day, world!  It helps that the sloth’s top land speed is roughly 13 feet per minute, because I sure do want to squidge them ‘til they squeal.  [Imagine meeting an extinct megasloth the size of an elephant.]  [And don’t be fooled by the “two-toed” sloth distinction - in fact, all sloths have three toes on their feet; the two-toed sloths have two digits on their hands, as opposed to the three-toed sloths, who have three.]  [Sharp sharp sharp digits.]  [Good for swimming, evidently.]

Stamp details: Top left: Issued on: April 7, 2000 From: Luanda, Angola MC #BL78

Top right: Issued on: February 12, 1960 From: Bogotá, Colombia MC #901

Bottom left: Issued on: November 16, 1990 From: Georgetown, Guyana MC #3410

Bottom right: Issued on: March 4, 2014 From: Budapest, Hungary MC #5675

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Linnaeus's Two-toed Sloth Choloepus didactylus

The largest living sloth species, they are found in northern South America. Two-toed sloths live in ever-wet tropical rainforests that are hot and humid. They tend to live in areas where there is a lot of vine growth so they can easily travel from tree to tree in the canopies of the forests. Similar to other sloth species, have a low rate of metabolism despite their relatively large body mass.

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