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Habitat
Location: Atlantic coastal rainforest of Brazil
Rainfall: wet season is October-April, annual rainfall of at least 1,200 mm
Plants: ferns, mosses, and orchids
Animals: golden lion tamarin, wooly spider monkey, red-tailed parrot, and the maned sloth
Temperature: 33 degree day and 22 degrees at night
Terrain: prefers to live in evergreen forests, they can also inhabit the semi-deciduous and secondary forest
Distribution
Continents: South America
Invasive?: Maned sloths are not an invasive species.
They are considered vulnerable.
Diet
Food: tree leaves
How often they eat: the food digests slowly, a meal may take up to a week to process
How they get food: the sloths get their food from trees
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