<strong>Edentata</strong>The Newsletter of the IUCN/SSC <strong>Anteater</strong>, <strong>Sloth</strong> and <strong>Armadillo</strong> <strong>Specialist</strong> <strong>Group</strong>ISSN 1413-4411Editors:Mariella Superina, IMBECU, CCT CONICET Mendoza, Mendoza, Argentina.Flávia Miranda, Projeto Tamanduá and Wildlife Conservation Society, São Paulo, Brazil.Roberto Aguilar, Cape Wildlife Center – Humane Society of the US, Barnstable, MA.John M. AguiarAssistant Editor:Agustín M. Abba, División Zoología Vertebrados, Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo, UNLP, La Plata,ArgentinaIUCN/SSC <strong>Anteater</strong>, <strong>Sloth</strong> and <strong>Armadillo</strong> <strong>Specialist</strong> <strong>Group</strong> ChairMariella SuperinaIUCN/SSC <strong>Anteater</strong>, <strong>Sloth</strong> and <strong>Armadillo</strong> <strong>Specialist</strong> <strong>Group</strong> Deputy ChairFlávia MirandaLayoutKim Meek, Washington, DC, e-mail: .The editors wish to thank the following reviewers for their collaboration:Teresa Cristina Da Silveira Anacleto, Adriano Chiarello, Erika Cuéllar, Jim Loughry, Nadia de Moraes-Barros,Miriam Plaza Pinto, Miguel Saggese, and Carly VynneFront Cover PhotoGiant armadillo (Priodontes maximus). Photo: Carly Vynne.Please direct all submissions and other editorial correspondence to Mariella Superina, IMBECU - CCTCONICET Mendoza, Casilla de Correos 855, Mendoza (5500), Argentina. Tel. +54-261-5244160,Fax +54-261-5244001, e-mail: .IUCN/SSC <strong>Anteater</strong>, <strong>Sloth</strong> and <strong>Armadillo</strong> <strong>Specialist</strong> <strong>Group</strong> logo courtesy of Stephen D. Nash, 2009.This issue of <strong>Edentata</strong> was kindly supported by the Center for Applied Biodiversity Science, ConservationInternational, 2011 Crystal Drive, #500, Arlington, VA 22202 USA.
TABLE OF CONTENTSiLetter from the Editorii IUCN/SSC <strong>Anteater</strong>, <strong>Sloth</strong> and <strong>Armadillo</strong> <strong>Specialist</strong> <strong>Group</strong> Members 2009–20121 Food Habits of Wild Silky <strong>Anteater</strong>s (Cyclopes didactylus) of São Luis do Maranhão, BrazilFlávia Miranda, Roberto Veloso, Mariella Superina, Fernando José Zara6 Observations of Intraspecific Aggression in Giant <strong>Anteater</strong>s (Myrmecophaga tridactyla)Kolja Kreutz, Frauke Fischer, K. Eduard Linsenmair8 Contribución al Conocimiento de la Distribución del Oso Hormiguero Gigante (Myrmecophaga tridactyla)en ArgentinaGuillermo Pérez Jimeno, Lucía Llarín Amaya13 Scat-Detection Dogs Seek Out New Locations of Priodontes maximus and Myrmecophaga tridactyla inCentral BrazilCarly Vynne, Ricardo B. Machado, Jader Marinho-Filho, Samuel K. Wasser15 Evidence for Three-Toed <strong>Sloth</strong> (Bradypus variegatus) Predation by Spectacled Owl (Pulsatrixperspicillata)James Bryson Voirin, Roland Kays, Margaret D. Lowman, Martin Wikelski21 New Records of Bradypus torquatus (Pilosa: Bradypodidae) from Southern Sergipe, BrazilRenata Rocha Déda Chagas, João Pedro Souza-Alves, Leandro Jerusalinsky, Stephen F. Ferrari25 Ecology of the Giant <strong>Armadillo</strong> (Priodontes maximus) in the Grasslands of Central BrazilLeandro Silveira, Anah Tereza de Almeida Jácomo, Mariana Malzoni Furtado, Natália Mundim Torres,Rahel Sollmann, Carly Vynne35 Morfometria de Tatu-Peba, Euphractus sexcinctus (Linnaeus, 1758), no Pantanal da Nhecolândia, MSÍsis Meri Medri, Guilherme Mourão, Jader Marinho-Filho41 Eto-Ecología y Conservación de Tres Especies de <strong>Armadillo</strong>s (Dasypus hybridus, Chaetophractus villosusy C. vellerosus) en el Noreste de la Provincia de Buenos Aires, ArgentinaAgustín M. Abba, Sergio F. Vizcaíno, Marcelo H. Cassini48 Ecologia de População e Área de Vida do Tatu-Mirim (Dasypus septemcinctus) em um Cerrado no BrasilCentralKena F. M. da Silva , Raimundo Paulo Barros Henriques54 Nine-Banded <strong>Armadillo</strong> (Dasypus novemcinctus) Records in New Mexico, USAJennifer K. Frey, James N. Stuart56 Presencia de Cabassous chacoensis en el Parque Nacional Talampaya, La Rioja, ArgentinaJulio C. Monguillot, Rodolfo Miatello58 Ocorrência de Euphractus sexcinctus (Xenarthra: Dasypodidae) na Região do Médio Rio AmazonasEldianne Moreira de Lima, Izaura da Conceição Magalhães Muniz, José Abílio Barros Ohana,José de Sousa e Silva Júnior61 News<strong>Edentata</strong> no. 8–<strong>10</strong> • 2009
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