Linnaeus’s two-toed sloth

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Linnaeus’s two-toed sloth

mammal

Also known as: Choloepus didactylus, Linnaeus’s sloth

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In sloth: Two-toed sloths
Linnaeus’s two-toed sloth (C. didactylus) lives in northern South America east of the Andes and south to the central Amazon basin. Hoffmann’s two-toed sloth (C. hoffmanni) is found in Central and South America from Nicaragua to Peru and western Brazil. The two species can be…
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