In zoology, a folivore is a herbivore that specializes in eating leaves. Mature leaves contain a high proportion of hard-to-digest cellulose, less energy than other types of foods, and often toxic compounds. [1] . For this reason, folivorous animals tend to …

Sloths are a Neotropical group of xenarthran mammals constituting the suborder Folivora, including the extant arboreal tree sloths and extinct terrestrial ground sloths. Noted for their slowness of movement, tree sloths spend most of their lives hanging upside down in the trees of the tropical rainforests of South America and Central America .

In this article we’ll explore different examples of folivores, their diverse characteristics and adaptations, and their importance in the environment. Folivores range from large mammals like elephants, giraffes, sloths, and koalas, to smaller primates …

In zoology, a folivore is a herbivore that specializes in eating leaves. Mature leaves contain a high proportion of hard-to-digest cellulose, less energy than other types of foods, and often toxic compounds. For this reason, folivorous animals tend to …

Folivora: pictures (17) Folivora: specimens (8) Related Taxa. Family Bradypodidae three-toed sloths. Bradypodidae: information (1) Bradypodidae: pictures (8) Bradypodidae: specimens (3) Family Megalonychidae two-toed sloths. Megalonychidae: information (1) Megalonychidae: pictures (9) Megalonychidae: specimens (5)

Los perezosos o folívoros (Folivora, lat. «que come hojas») son un suborden de mamíferos placentarios neotropicales del orden de los pilosos, endémicos de las selvas húmedas de América Central y América del Sur.

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Sloths are a Neotropical group of xenarthran mammals constituting the suborder Folivora, including the extant arboreal tree sloths and extinct terrestrial ground sloths. Noted for their slowness of movement, tree sloths spend most of their lives hanging upside down in the trees of the tropical rainforests of South America and Central America.

Any of various slow-moving, arboreal mammals of the suborder Folivora of South and Central America, having long hooklike claws by which they hang upside down from tree branches, and feeding on leaves, buds, and fruit, especially:

Use of Folivora follows recommendation by Delsuc et al. (2001:1606). McKenna and Bell (1997) used Phyllophaga Owen, 1842, for this suborder.