It is hard to guess what a Linnaeus’s two-toed sloth weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Linnaeus’s two-toed sloth (Choloepus didactylus) on average weights 6.61 kg (14.57 lbs).
The Linnaeus’s two-toed sloth is from the family Megalonychidae (genus: Choloepus). It is usually born with about 364 grams (0.8 lbs). They can live for up to 27.75 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 69 cm (2′ 4″). Usually, Linnaeus’s two-toed sloths have 1 babies per litter.
As a reference: An average human weights in at 62 kg (137 lbs) and reaches an average size of 1.65m (5′ 5″). Humans spend 280 days (40 weeks) in the womb of their mother and reach around 75 years of age.
Linnaeus’s two-toed sloth (Choloepus didactylus), also known as the southern two-toed sloth, unau, or Linne’s two-toed sloth is a species of sloth from South America, found in Venezuela, the Guyanas, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Brazil north of the Amazon River. There is now evidence suggesting the species’ range expands into Bolivia.
Animals of the same family as a Linnaeus’s two-toed sloth
We found other animals of the Megalonychidae family:
- Hoffmann’s two-toed sloth bringing 5.7 kilos (12.57 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Linnaeus’s two-toed sloth
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Choloepus didactylus:
- Mantled howler with a weight of 6.58 kilos (14.51 lbs)
- Bolivian red howler with a weight of 6.61 kilos (14.57 lbs)
- Tasmanian pademelon with a weight of 5.85 kilos (12.9 lbs)
- Raffles’ banded langur with a weight of 7.02 kilos (15.48 lbs)
- Crab-eating fox with a weight of 5.74 kilos (12.65 lbs)
- Suni with a weight of 5.63 kilos (12.41 lbs)
- Celebes crested macaque with a weight of 7.37 kilos (16.25 lbs)
- Proserpine rock-wallaby with a weight of 5.6 kilos (12.35 lbs)
- Tana River mangabey with a weight of 7.08 kilos (15.61 lbs)
- Brush-tailed rock-wallaby with a weight of 6.94 kilos (15.3 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Linnaeus’s two-toed sloth
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Linnaeus’s two-toed sloth:
- Drill (animal) with a size of 70 cm (2′ 4″)
- Moor macaque with a size of 66 cm (2′ 2″)
- Hoary fox with a size of 60.3 cm (2′ 0″)
- Preuss’s red colobus with a size of 57.9 cm (1′ 11″)
- Tayra with a size of 61.4 cm (2′ 1″)
- Culpeo with a size of 72 cm (2′ 5″)
- Patagonian mara with a size of 66.4 cm (2′ 3″)
- Aardwolf with a size of 69.7 cm (2′ 4″)
- Southern muriqui with a size of 57.8 cm (1′ 11″)
- Blue duiker with a size of 69.3 cm (2′ 4″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Linnaeus’s two-toed sloth
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Linnaeus’s two-toed sloth:
- White-bellied free-tailed bat
- Bornean orangutan
- Tamaraw
- Calabar angwantibo
- Long-fingered triok
- Striped bandicoot
- Feather-tailed possum
- Pygmy ringtail possum
- Brazilian shrew mouse
- Squirrel glider
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Linnaeus’s two-toed sloth
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Linnaeus’s two-toed sloth:
- Three-striped night monkey with an average maximal age of 25.25 years
- Sika deer with an average maximal age of 25.42 years
- Lion with an average maximal age of 30 years
- Red-tailed monkey with an average maximal age of 28.25 years
- Guianan squirrel monkey with an average maximal age of 27 years
- Red kangaroo with an average maximal age of 30 years
- Bobcat with an average maximal age of 32.33 years
- Pacific white-sided dolphin with an average maximal age of 25 years
- Sooty mangabey with an average maximal age of 26.75 years
- Grivet with an average maximal age of 31.58 years