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Every Wednesday, local guides and naturalists in Monteverde, Costa Rica post a brief lesson about an animal, plant, or other interesting thing that they saw on a recent trip into the cloud forest.
Guide Center Lesson Archive: See all of the weekly cloud forest guide lessons submitted since the Cloud Forest Alive project began!
Cloud Forest Guide Biographies: Read about the Guides that are helping with the Cloud Forest Alive project. If you are planning a visit to Monteverde, you can use the contact information to schedule a tour ahead of time!

This week's lesson...

Two-toed Sloth (Choloepus hoffmanni)
Submitted: May 07, 2003

By: Wagner López

Two species of sloths can be found in Costa Rica, Two-toed sloths and Three-toed sloths.

Two-toed sloths are found in our preserve, this little baby was without his mom in the Candelaria town. ... Full lesson

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This website was developed to enhance global understanding of the unique and important cloud forests of Central America. Through their impact on water and soil quality, climate patterns, and numerous known and unknown plant and animal species, cloud forests profoundly affect life surrounding them and life around the planet. Current financing and management provided by the Tropical Science Center and Forum One Communications. Past support from the World Bank and the Central American Commission for Environment and Development (CCAD). Contact Wagner Lopez info@cloudforestalive.org with comments or questions.