Two Toed Sloth Facts | Anatomy, Diet, Habitat, Behavior - Animals Time

Our Mammal Encounter of the Month for March is... Choloepus hoffmanni (Hoffmann's Two-toed Sloth)! Sloths spend most of their life up in the canopy of the rainforest. They only descend to the forest floor approximately once a week to defecate, before returning to their leafy home in the treetops. Therefore, to happen to encounter one at this precise moment is a real rarity! This individual was actually encountered by our Herpetofauna Research Team while on survey. While each of our research team

Introducing…Hoffmann’s two-toed sloth (choloepus hoffmanni) Conservation status: Least concern The Hoffmann’s two toed sloth can be found inhabiting tropical forests ranging from sea level up to 3000 meters. There are two separate populations of C. hoffmanni, separated by the Andes. The most northern population ranges from eastern Honduras to western Ecuador, and the southern population ranges from eastern Peru to western Brazil and northern Bolivia. These two populations are thought to have div