Habitat selectionAt the landscape scale, the studied sloths predominantly usedmore than one habitat type. Similarly, Vaughan et al. (2007)reported that, in a diverse landscape within Central America, B.variegatus and Choloepus hoffmanni commonly had two or threedistinct habitats, such as cacao agroforests, living-fence rows, openareas, and riparian forest strips. This suggests that sloths require amosaic of habitats to fulfill their basic living requirements.Our results indicated that maned sloths preferred shaded cacaoplantations and early secondary forests among their available habi-tats to establish a home range. The floristic composition of theseareas likely makes their vegetation types attractive to sloths despitethe fact that these structurally simplified habitats may increaseexposure to potential predators. Shaded cacao plantations and earlysecondary forests harbor high abundances of pioneer tree species,such as Ficus, Tapirira, and Ocotea, which are commonly consumedby sloths (Mariano-Neto, 2004; Sambuichi, 2006; Cassano et al.,2011). The preference of the sloths for shaded cacao plantationsand early secondary forests was observed even for those that weretranslocated to the interior of late secondary forests. Thus, at thisscale (Johnson’s second order), the composition and abundanceof tree species seemed to be more important in determining amaned sloth’s home range than the high structural complexity ofthe forested habitat.At the home range scale (Johnson’s third order), the varioustypes of forested habitats did not appear to influence the move-ment of the maned sloths. The sloths appeared to be capable ofadapting their diets according to differences in the composition andabundance of consumed plant species available in a given habi-tat, feeding mostly on shade-tolerant species in forest remnantsand predominantly on shade-intolerant plants present at shadedcacao plantations (Cassano et al., 2011). Such adaptation indicates