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ground sloths

Portuguese translation: preguiças-gigantes


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English term or phrase:ground sloths
Portuguese translation:preguiças-gigantes
Entered by: Alexandre Reis
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01:48 Feb 26, 2009
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Science - Zoology
English term or phrase: ground sloths
Qual é o termo correspondente para ground sloths? Muito obrigado desde já.

Included in the cache of fossils were some 700 specimens, including a large prehistoric American Lion skull, lion bones, bones from dire wolves, saber-toothed cats, juvenile horse and bison, teratorn, coyotes, lynx and ground sloths.
Alexandre Reis
Brazil
Local time: 17:17
preguiças-gigantes
Explanation:
As preguiças gigantes são animais extintos que, ao contrário das preguiças atuais que são arborícolas, eram terrícolas.

Provavelmente daí vem a denominação em inglês de "ground" sloths.
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imatahan
Brazil
Local time: 17:17
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5 +2preguiças-gigantes
imatahan
5 +2preguiça-gigante
Marlene Curtis
4 +1preguiças terrestresLuciano Eduardo de Oliveira


  

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preguiças terrestres


Explanation:
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Luciano Eduardo de Oliveira
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 20

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agree  Lúcia Leitão
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preguiça-gigante


Explanation:
http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preguiça-gigante

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground_sloth

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PREGUIÇAS-GIGANTES

Marlene Curtis
United States
Local time: 16:17
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agree  Floriana Leary
7 hrs
  -> Grata Floriana!

agree  Isabel Maria Almeida
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  -> Obrigada Isabel Maria!
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +2
preguiças-gigantes


Explanation:
As preguiças gigantes são animais extintos que, ao contrário das preguiças atuais que são arborícolas, eram terrícolas.

Provavelmente daí vem a denominação em inglês de "ground" sloths.


    Reference: http://www.ufac.br/ensino/laboratorios/Paleontologia/preguis...
    Reference: http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/wildfacts/factfiles/3002.shtml
imatahan
Brazil
Local time: 17:17
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 16

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agree  Marcelo Lino: Megatérios e outras.
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agree  rhandler
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