Habitat selection
respectively.
Both species of sloth exhibited second-order habitat
selection for tropical forests and avoided monocultures
and human development (Figure 3a). However, the twotoed
sloth also selected pastures, while the three-toed
sloth avoided this habitat type. When we excluded rarely
used monocultures and human development from our
analyses, the two-toed sloth selected for tropical forest but
avoided cocoa; the three-toed sloth selected for tropical
forest, and avoided both cocoa and pastures (Figure 3b).
Within home ranges (i.e. third-order habitat selection)
both the two- and the three-toed sloth selected for tropical
forest (Figure 3c), while the three-toed sloth avoided
cocoa and strongly avoided pastures (Figure 3c).