Literature Tidbit
A study by Hansen (1978) of ground sloth dung shows a decrease in favored food and an increase in less palatable food until the animal disappears. This is easy to account for if there was a boom condition squeezing the ground sloth into a narrower and narrower niche until it could no longer sustain life.
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