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Hoffmann's Two-toed Sloth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hoffmann's Two-toed Sloth ( Choloepus hoffmanni ) is a species of sloth from Central and South America. It is a solitary nocturnal and arboreal animal, found in mature and secondary rainforests and...
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Two-toed sloth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The sloth has a very unusual symbiotic relationship with algae. It has specialized hair that encourages algae growth, which aids in camouflaging the animal. ... The scientific name Choloepus means lame, or maimed, foot. That is a direct reference to the fact that this genus only has two toes on each of its front feet.
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Two-toed Sloth - CHOLOEPUS DIDACTYLUS; ... The Name "Sloth": "Sloth" comes from Middle English "slowthe" which meant "slow." "Didactylus" means "two-toed." ; ... Description: The face of the two-toed sloth is quite flattened and hairless. Its eyes are small, set within black rings, and the ears are almost completely...
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Colding, J., and C. Folke. 1997. The relations among threatened species, their protection, and taboos. Conservation Ecology [online]1(1): 6. ... 68 Cholopeus hoffmani two-toed sloth Achuar of Ecuador/Peru (15) - ... a Blank cells indicate that no popular name in English is specified.
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genus Galictis (alternative name for the genus Grison) ... Choloepus; genus Choloepus (a genus of Megalonychidae consisting of the two-toed sloth)
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As every schoolchild knows, any procedure for doing this, or test, divides the data space into two parts, ... The probability of a miss, as opposed to a false alarm, has no short name in the jargon, but one minus the probability of a miss — the probability of detecting a signal when it's present — is called power.
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