Atlantic Forest

The Atlantic Forest (Portuguese: Mata Atlântica) is a moist broadleaf forest that extends along the Atlantic coast of Brazil from Rio Grande do Norte state in the northeast to Rio Grande do Sul state in the south and inland as far as Paraguay and the Misiones Province of Argentina, where it is known as the Missionary rainforest (Spanish: Selva Misionera).

By the time of European colonization circa 1500 CE, the Atlantic Forest stretched approximately 1,300,000 km2 (500,000 sq mi).

Cougars in the Atlantic Forest were active throughout the day but displayed peak activity during early mornings in protected areas and crepuscular and nocturnal activity in less protected areas.

The seven recognized subspecies of the brown-throated sloth, although these are not all readily distinguishable, are: B. v. boliviensis Gray, 1871 Western Amazon B. v. brasiliensis Blainville, 1840 Southern Atlantic Forest in coastal Brazil B. v. ephippiger Philippi, 1870 The Trans-Andean regions of Central America B. v. gorgon Thomas, 1926 Gorgona Island, off the Pacific coast

In the Atlantic Forest in northeastern Argentina, it is affected by logging and poaching of prey species.

The remaining species are restricted to Atlantic Forest of Argentina, Paraguay, and Brazil, including forest fragments in the Cerrado savanna.

In a detailed 2024 study, researchers collected 16 mothers of the species Siphonops annulatus from cacao plantations in Brazil's Atlantic Forest and filmed them with their altricial hatchlings in the lab.

Kinkajous range from east and south of the Sierra Madre in Mexico, throughout Central America to Bolivia east of the Andes and the Atlantic Forest of southeastern Brazil.

Coastal Atlantic Forest, liana forest, semi-deciduous forest, scleromorphic cerrado woodland or cerrado savanna forest

This diurnal species is endemic to southeastern Brazil where it is found among leaf litter on the floor of Atlantic rainforests at an altitude of 200-1,250 m (660-4,100 ft).