sloth’s home range. We treated available habitat as the
proportion of each habitat type within the Minimum
Convex Polygon (MCP) of all sloths relocations of a given
species (i.e. pooled across individuals). Within the MCP,
we calculated available habitat in two different ways:
(1) as the proportion of all five habitats (cocoa, tropical
forest, pastures, monocultures and human development)
and (2) excluding the least-used habitats (monocultures
and human development). Monocultures and human
development habitats were excluded from the second
analysis as sloths are predominantly observed in cocoa,
tropical forest and cattle pastures, and rarely utilize
monocultures or human development (Vaughan et al.
2007). To test for third-order habitat selection, we
considered used habitat to be the proportion of relocations
that occurred in each habitat. We quantified available