Sloths of the Atlantic Forest in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries

ABSTRACT Sloths were a curiosity item for Europeans in the 16th and 17th centuries, and several descriptions of them exist in bestiaries and texts of that time. Here, we assemble the descriptions and drawings of sloths from the travellers and naturalists of those centuries in the Brazilian Atlantic...

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Autor principal: MOREIRA,DANIELLE O. (author)
Outros Autores: MENDES,SÉRGIO L. (author)
Formato: article
Idioma:eng
Publicado em: 2016
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Texto completo:http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0001-37652016000501799
País:Brasil
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