The brown-throated sloth is the most widespread and common of the three-toed sloths. It is found from Honduras in the north, through Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama into Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia, Brazil and eastern Peru.

The Brown-throated Three-toed Sloth lives in many Central and South American countries including WLT project areas in Brazil and Ecuador. The species was originally also native in Argentina, but is now extinct in this country, with a last sighting there in 1916.

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The brown-throated sloth is the most common and widespread species of sloth. Found in the rainforests of Central and South America, this distinctive mammal spends most of its life motionless, hanging upside-down in the rainforest canopy.

They are the only members of the genus Bradypus (meaning "slow-footed" in Ancient Greek) and the family Bradypodidae. The five living species of three-toed sloths are the brown-throated sloth, the maned sloth, the pale-throated sloth, the southern maned sloth, and the pygmy three-toed sloth.

The brown-throated sloth (Bradypus variegatus) is a three-toed sloth and the most widespread of the four Bradypus species, found across a broad arc of Central and South America from Honduras to northern Argentina.

The brown-throated sloth (Bradypus variegatus) is a medium-sized, slow-moving mammal native to the tropical rainforests of Central and South America, with a wide distribution from Honduras to Bolivia and northern Argentina.

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The brown-throated sloth (or Bradypus variegatus) is an arboreal mammal living in the rainforests of Central and South America. It is pale grey to brown in color, has long gangly limbs, longer arms than legs, and no tail.

Brown-throated sloth (Brown-throated three-toed sloth) Bradypus variegatus SCHINZ, 1825