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Three-Toed Sloth

Educational resources on Three-Toed Sloth


Links from educational and academic institutions for Three-Toed Sloth:

Three-Toed Sloth: Three-Toed Sloth. Slow Takes ... permanent link. Three-Toed Sloth : Hosted, but not endorsed, by the Center for the Study of Complex Systems.
http://www.cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/weblog/ 1

Brown Throated three-toed sloth: Brown-throated Three-toed sloth (Bradypus variegatus). ... The arms of the three-toed sloth are also visibly longer than that of the two-toed sloth. ...
http://bss.sfsu.edu/geog/bholzman/courses/fall99projects/sloth.htm 2

Rain Forests: The three-toed sloth has very unusual habits. ... In fact the three-toed sloth sleeps for 19 hours a day hanging up-side down on branches. ...
http://kalama.doe.hawaii.edu/hern95/pt006/G4/C3/jeremyp.html 3

Three-toed Sloth: Three-toed Sloth. By: Lizzy Nash. ... The male three-toed sloth has a distinctive patch of orange hair on it’s back with a brown stripe down the middle. ...
http://www.samford.edu/schools/artsci/biology/peru03/animals/sloth/slothpage.html 4

Three-toed Sloth: Elizabeth Simmons and Sekhar Chivukula visit Gamboa / Three-toed Sloth Tropical Biodiversity and Conservation in Panama 5/25/2004 urquhar5@msu.edu urquhar5@msu ...
http://www.msu.edu/user/dru/Fieldnotes/2004/May25/pages/Three-toed%20Sloth.htm 5

The Life of the Sloth: Final Draft: ...giant ground sloths D. five species of sloths, all in neotropics 1. two species in Costa Rica Bradypus variegatus or the three-toed sloth Choloepus hoffmanni ...
http://jrscience.wcp.muohio.edu/FieldCourses99/TropEcoCostaRicaArticles/TheLifeoftheSloth.FinalDr.html 6

ADW: Bradypus variegatus: Information: Bradypus variegatus (brown-throated three-toed sloth). ... Geographic Range. The three-toed sloth lives in Central and South America. ...
http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/accounts/bradypus/b._variegatus$narrative.html 7

The TWO-TOED* and THREE-TOED SLOTHS**: The unau, or two-toed sloth, has no tail, and only two claws on all the feet. The aï, or three-toed sloth, has a tail, and three claws on all the feet. ...
http://faculty.njcu.edu/fmoran/vol7sloths.htm 8

Recreation Services: 7:15, Phi Sig 1 vs Phi Sig 2, AGD vs Chicas. 8:15, Phi Sig 2 vs Three Toed Sloth, AGD vs ASA. ... 6:15, TKE vs Three Toed Sloth, Country Girls vs Lady Ballers. ...
http://www.mwsc.edu/recreation/volleyball.shtml 9



Links from organizations for Three-Toed Sloth:



Animal Info - Maned Three-toed Sloth: Animal Info - Maned Three-toed Sloth. (Other Names: Ai-Igapo, Ai-Pixuna, Brazilian Three-toed Sloth, Maned Sloth, Preguiça-de-Coleira, Preguiça-Preta). ...
http://www.animalinfo.org/species/bradtorq.htm 1

Maned three-toed sloth - Bradypus torquatus - ARKive: Arkive - Images of Life on Earth. Search. Homepage > Species > Global > Mammals > Maned three-toed sloth. Maned three-toed sloth (Bradypus torquatus). ...
http://www.arkive.org/species/GES/mammals/Bradypus_torquatus/ 2

Maned three-toed sloth - Bradypus torquatus: More Still Images ...: Search. Homepage > Species > Global > Mammals > Maned three-toed sloth > Still Images. Maned three-toed sloth (Bradypus torquatus). ...
http://www.arkive.org/species/GES/mammals/Bradypus_torquatus/more_still_images.html 3

Sloth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: Both types tend to occupy the same forests: in most areas, a particular single species of three-toed sloth and a single species of the larger two-toed type ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sloth 4

three-toed sloth: ...three-toed sloth. From WordNet (r) 2.0. three-toed sloth n : a sloth that has three long claws on each forefoot [syn: ai, Bradypus tridactylus]. ...
http://three-2dtoed.sloth.word.sytes.org/ 5

Sloth - The Mammal.: Linne's Two-Toed Sloth); The Bradypus Genus (Three-Toed Sloths) with species Bradypus variegatus (Brown-Throated Three-Toed Sloth), Bradypus tridactylus (Pale ...
http://www.xenarthra.org/SlothMammal.html 6

Bradypus - Three-Toed Sloth: Bradypus: Pale-throated Three-toed Sloth, Bradypus tridactylus Maned Three-toed Sloth, Bradypus torquatus Three-toed sloth, Bradypus variegatus Pygmy Three ...
http://www.sloth-world.org/Bradypus.html 7

Digimorph - Bradypus variegatus (three-toed sloth): Bradypus variegatus, Three-toed Sloth DigiMorph Staff - The University of Texas at Austin. Bradypus variegatus, Click for help. Java Slice Viewer. inspeCTor. ...
http://digimorph.org/specimens/Bradypus_variegatus/ 8



Links from government agencies for Three-Toed Sloth:

Ventricular fibrillation threshold in the three-toed sloth ...: 1984;34(3):313-22. Ventricular fibrillation threshold in the three-toed sloth (Bradypus tridactylus). Valentinuzzi ME, del Valle Ruiz E, da Costa CP. ...
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=6241785&dopt=Abstract 1

Sleep and waking in the three-toed sloth, Bradypus tridactylus.: Comp Biochem Physiol A. 1983;76(2):345-55. Sleep and waking in the three-toed sloth, Bradypus tridactylus. De Moura Filho AG, Huggins SE, Lines SG. ...
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=6139209&dopt=Abstract 2

ITIS Standard Report Page: Bradypus: Genus, Bradypus Linnaeus, 1758, Direct Children: Species, Bradypus torquatus Illiger, 1811 -- Brazilian three-toed sloth, maned three-toed sloth, ...
http://www.itis.usda.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=624874 3

ITIS Standard Report Page: Bradypus torquatus: Kingdom: Animalia, Taxonomic Rank: Species, Synonym(s): Common Name(s): Brazilian three-toed sloth [English], maned three-toed sloth [English], Taxonomic Status ...
http://www.itis.usda.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=624886 4

LC Subject Headings Weekly List 10 (March 5, 1997): E22 (Zoology) 450 UF Bradypus boliviensis 450 UF Bradypus griseus 450 UF Bradypus infuscatus 450 UF Bradypus variegatus 450 UF Grey three-toed sloth 550 BT ...
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/wls97/awls9710.html 7

EPA: Federal Register: Changes in the List of Species in ...: I..... 7/1/75 Order Xenarthra: Anteaters, Sloths, Armadillos: Bradypus variegatus (=boliviensis Three-toed sloth..... ...
http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-SPECIES/1995/September/Day-29/pr-428.html 9





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