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ArticlePeerJ2023

The behaviour and activity budgets of two sympatric sloths;

Rebecca N Cliffe, Ryan J Haupt, Sarah Kennedy, Cerys Felton, Hannah J Williams, Judy Avey-Arroyo, Rory Wilson

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Article in PeerJ, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

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7 authors.

Rebecca N CliffeThe Sloth Conservation Foundation, Hayfield, Derbyshire, United Kingdom.
Ryan J HauptDepartment of Geology and Geophysics, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, United States of America.
Sarah KennedyThe Sloth Conservation Foundation, Hayfield, Derbyshire, United Kingdom.
Cerys FeltonSwansea Lab for Animal Movement, Biosciences, College of Science, Swansea University, Swansea, United Kingdom.
Hannah J WilliamsSwansea Lab for Animal Movement, Biosciences, College of Science, Swansea University, Swansea, United Kingdom.
Judy Avey-ArroyoThe Sloth Sanctuary of Costa Rica, Limon, Costa Rica.
Rory WilsonSwansea Lab for Animal Movement, Biosciences, College of Science, Swansea University, Swansea, United Kingdom.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

It is usually beneficial for species to restrict activity to a particular phase of the 24-hour cycle as this enables the development of morphological and behavioural adaptations to enhance survival under specific biotic and abiotic conditions. Sloth activity patterns are thought to be strongly related to the environmental conditions due to the metabolic consequences of having a low and highly variable core body temperature. Understanding the drivers of sloth activity and their ability to withstand environmental fluctuations is of growing importance for the development of effective conservation measures, particularly when we consider the vulnerability of tropical ecosystems to climate change and the escalating impacts of anthropogenic activities in South and Central America. Unfortunately, the cryptic nature of sloths makes long term observational research difficult and so there is very little existing literature examining the behavioural ecology of wild sloths. Here, we used micro data loggers to continuously record, for the first time, the behaviour of both

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SlothsAnimalsCentral AmericaCosta RicaEcosystemPredatory BehaviorActivity budgetsBiologgingBradypusCathemeralCholoepusCircadian rhythmSloth

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PMID37273542
PMCPMC10234273

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