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Signals will greatly decrease if an animal moves into a hole, for example, or behind a large rock or tree. The strength of a signal from a radio-collar is dependent on the distance between the transmitter and receiver and the interference caused by terrain and For the purpose of this paper, clear differences can be seen between three levels of activity: the highly dynamic signals of moving animals, the nearly static signals of resting animals, and the completely static signals from collars on dead individuals. Data are transmitted back to the lab in real-time, so that the death of an animal can be quickly noted by the lack of an individual's activity ( Aliaga-Rossel et al., 2006). It records the strength of signals from six fixed antennae on each tower and the changes in these signals can be used to estimate the activity of an animal ( Cochran et al., 1965 Kjos and Cochran, 1970 Lambert et al., 2009). The ARTS uses automated telemetry receivers mounted on seven above-canopy towers to monitor the location and activity of radio-collared animals through data relayed to the laboratory in real time ( Crofoot et al., 2008). The sloth's radio-collar was monitored by the Automated Radio Telemetry System (ARTS, Crofoot et al., 2008 Lambert et al., 2009). We fixed a radio collar to the adult and immediately released both individuals together back into the forest canopy. We did not separate the baby from the mother, but obtained a weight of the two together (6 kg) and estimated the weight of the mother to be 3.5–4.5 kg. The sloth was an adult female with a young of about four months. We caught a three-toed sloth on 13 March 2006 by climbing a tree using the single rope technique ( Moffett and Lowman, 1995) and securing the sloth with a snare pole ( Montgomery and Sunquist, 1975 Rattenborg et al., 2008). The forest type is mixed, with both extensive second-growth regions as well as old-growth primary forests. The habitat is moist tropical forest ( Tosi, 1971 Leigh, 1999), and annual precipitation is approximately 2,600 mm, with a pronounced dry season ( Windsor, 1990).

The minimum distance between the island and the mainland is 200 m, although small islands break up this gap in some places. BCI is a hilltop that was isolated from the mainland in 1914 when the Chagres River was dammed to create Lake Gatun as part of the Panama Canal. We conducted this work on Barro Colorado Island (BCI), Panama (1,500 ha 9☁0′N, 79★0′W), part of the Barro Colorado Nature Monument (5,500 ha total Leigh, 1999). Here we report the possibility of an exception in the opposite direction, with predation of a large prey by a relatively small predator. The exceptions to this rule have come primarily from large predators eating small, superabundant prey, such as the sloth bear ( Ursus ursinus, Shaw 1791) feeding on colonies of invertebrates ( Carbone et al., 1999). The relationship between the body size of predator and prey is well established across mammalian carnivores (prey mass = 1.19 predator mass Carbone et al., 1999) and predatory birds ( Newton, 1979). Predators are less likely to attack larger prey because they are harder to kill and are more likely to injure the attacking predators when defending themselves. Larger animals have fewer potential predators, with the very largest species, such as adult elephants, facing virtually no predation risk ( Sinclair et al., 2003). Amidst these, body size has been identified as the most important effect on predator-prey interactions. Predation risk has driven a diverse array of adaptations to allow animals to hide from, escape from, or fight against predators ( Endler, 1991).