Tioman Para-primate

Very impressive pics, Graham, and sharp too! I think it was fortunate that it was a slow moving subject.

I took the liberty of linking your post to a mammal thread on BirdForum here and expert opinion has come to your rescue:

it is a two-toed sloth (very different facial structure to three-toed sloths so easy to tell apart even if you can't count their claws). The species that occurs in Santerem should be the Linnaeus' two-toed sloth Choloepus didactylus

(thanks Chlidonias)

So there's your tick - Linnaeus' two-toed sloth. That's typical of you to go back to first principles and start your list with a Linnaeus...

How can I respond to this beclawed arboreal challenge? Well, how about this highly cropped and fuzzy pic of what looks like a small deer shoved into a sack and suspended in a tree. Yes its that Sunda Flying Lemur or Malayan Colugo that I spotted on Pulau Tioman a few years ago. Since then the colugos have been placed in the same evolutionary cluster as primates you'll be relieved to hear - so maybe this form would be best known as the Tioman Para-primate.



So, by my reckoning that makes the scores

• Geoff: 4
  
• Graham: 1(+736 sheep)