How big does a Linnaeus’s two-toed sloth get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:
A grown Linnaeus’s two-toed sloth (Choloepus didactylus) reaches an average size of 69 cm (2′ 4″).
When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). During their lifetime of about 27.75 years, they grow from 364 grams (0.8 lbs) to 6.61 kg (14.57 lbs). A Linnaeus’s two-toed sloth has 1 babies at once. The Linnaeus’s two-toed sloth (genus: Choloepus) is a member of the family Megalonychidae.
As a reference: Humans reach an average body size of 1.65m (5′ 5″) while carrying 62 kg (137 lbs). A human woman is pregnant for 280 days (40 weeks) and on average become 75 years old.
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 with 1 babies per litter
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:
- Günther’s dik-dik with a size of 61.2 cm (2′ 1″)
- Western red colobus with a size of 57.4 cm (1′ 11″)
- Golden snub-nosed monkey with a size of 64.7 cm (2′ 2″)
- Brown dorcopsis with a size of 67.9 cm (2′ 3″)
- Drill (animal) with a size of 70 cm (2′ 4″)
- Kirk’s dik-dik with a size of 65.5 cm (2′ 2″)
- Hose’s palm civet with a size of 60.1 cm (2′ 0″)
- François’ langur with a size of 58.9 cm (2′ 0″)
- Dingiso with a size of 67.4 cm (2′ 3″)
- Moor macaque with a size of 66 cm (2′ 2″)
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:
- Western gorilla
- King colobus
- Defua rat
- Short-eared possum
- Frosted sac-winged bat
- Brown greater galago
- Brown-throated sloth
- Hamlyn’s monkey
- Polar bear
- Little red brocket
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:
- Brown long-eared bat with an average maximal age of 30 years
- Binturong with an average maximal age of 22.67 years
- Bald uakari with an average maximal age of 27 years
- Cacomistle with an average maximal age of 23 years
- South American sea lion with an average maximal age of 24.75 years
- De Brazza’s monkey with an average maximal age of 26.25 years
- Olive baboon with an average maximal age of 25.17 years
- Pacific white-sided dolphin with an average maximal age of 25 years
- Finless porpoise with an average maximal age of 23 years
- Black crested mangabey with an average maximal age of 26.75 years
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:
- Black howler with a weight of 5.58 kilos (12.3 lbs)
- Bolivian red howler with a weight of 6.61 kilos (14.57 lbs)
- Black-spotted cuscus with a weight of 6 kilos (13.23 lbs)
- Pygmy hog with a weight of 7.92 kilos (17.46 lbs)
- Collared mangabey with a weight of 7.29 kilos (16.07 lbs)
- Southern river otter with a weight of 7.5 kilos (16.53 lbs)
- Brown’s pademelon with a weight of 5.48 kilos (12.08 lbs)
- Koala with a weight of 6.55 kilos (14.44 lbs)
- Proserpine rock-wallaby with a weight of 5.6 kilos (12.35 lbs)
- Black crested gibbon with a weight of 6.43 kilos (14.18 lbs)