Sloths: Effects of Habitat Loss

This discussion topic submitted by Leanna O'Grady ( leogrady@hotmail.com) at 4:26 pm on 3/20/01. Additions were last made on Wednesday, November 13, 2002.


I. Types of Sloths
A. Brown-throated Three-toed Sloth
B. Pale-Throated Three-toed Sloth
C. Caned Three-toed Sloth
D. Hoffman's Two-toed Sloth
E. Southern Two-toed Sloth
II. Habitat needs
A. Food
B. Shelter
III. General Life Cycle
IV. A day in the life of a sloth
V. How habitat loss has effected the sloth in Costa Rica
A. Changes in Food sources
B. Changes in habitat
C. Changes in reproduction
VI. Other human effects on sloths
VII. What has been done and what can be done

I am interested in learning more about the sloth in general. The focus of my paper is a general background on sloths and then a look at how habitat loss and human impacts have effected the sloth population in Costa Rica.

Sources:

Emmons, Louise H. Neotropical Rainforest Mammals: A Field Guide, Second Edition. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. 1997.

Chiarello AG. "Effects of fragmentation of the Atlantic forest on mammal communities in south-eastern Brazil." BIOL CONSERV 89: (1) 71-82 JUL 1999.

Chaiarello AG. "Activity budgets and ranging patterns of the Atlantic forest maned sloth Bradypusorquatus (Xenarthra:Bradypodidae") JZOOL 246: 1-10 Part 1 SEP 1998.

Long A, Martin PS, Lagiglia HA. "Ground sloth extinction and human occupation at Gruta del Indio, Argentina" RADIOCARBON 40: (2)693-700 Part 2 SP. Iss. SI 1998.

Premtice A. "Sloth." NEW SCI 157: (2127) 36-37 MAR 28 1998.


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