Sloths
121mammal — mammallike, adj. /mam euhl/, n. any vertebrate of the class Mammalia, having the body more or less covered with hair, nourishing the young with milk from the mammary glands, and, with the exception of the egg laying monotremes, giving birth to… …
122South America — South American. a continent in the S part of the Western Hemisphere. 271,000,000; ab. 6,900,000 sq. mi. (17,871,000 sq. km). * * * Continent, Western Hemisphere. The world s fourth largest continent, it is bounded by the Caribbean Sea to the… …
123Tertiary Period — Interval of geologic time, 65–1. 8 million years ago. It constitutes the first of the two periods of the Cenozoic Era, the second being the Quaternary. The Tertiary has five subdivisions: (from oldest to youngest) the Paleocene, Eocene, Oligocene …
124community ecology — Introduction study of the organization and functioning of communities (community), which are assemblages of interacting populations of the species living within a particular area or habitat. As populations of species interact with one …
125Mylodon — ▪ extinct mammal genus extinct genus of ground sloth (xenarthran) found as fossils (fossil) in South American deposits of the Pleistocene Epoch (1.8 million to11,800 years ago). Mylodon attained a length of about 3 metres (10 feet). Its… …
126Cryptoses choloepi — Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Class: Inse …
127List of mammals of Brazil — Brazil has the largest mammal diversity in the world, with more than 600 described species and, probably, many yet to be discovered. According to the World Conservation Union sixty six of these species are endangered species and 40% of the… …
128Sloth bear — Temporal range: Late Pliocene to Early Pleistocene – Recent Francois [1] a sloth bear in captivity at the Smithsonian National Zoological Park, Washington …
