Xenarthra in mixed species exhibits.

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Yes, two of the species were mixed. They have breeding groups of Three-banded Armadillos and Screaming Hairy Armadillos, and a single male Six-banded Armadillo. The Six-banded Armadillo is mixed with one of the other two species but I don't recall which.

The sloths and one species of Douroucouli each are mixed in both exhibits.
 
Giant Anteaters lived with Capybaras at Fresno Chaffee Zoo when I was last there this past summer.

I have seen Sloths with Saki Monkeys before but I have also heard a confrimed incident from a zoo (source declined to name where) where a sloth actually managed to kill a tamarin it was sharing an enclosure with.
 
Randers Tropical Zoo, Odense Zoo and Copenhagen Zoo, Denmark: These three zoos all have sloths free-ranging in a tropical hall with lots of birds and in Odense and Randers' case, also marmosets and tamarins.
Aalborg Zoo: Have a pampas exhibit with Patagonian cavies, capybaras and giant anteaters.
That's for Denmark.
Anyways, aren't sloths usually kept in tropical walk-through exhibits, or do I just happen to have visited the places that are different from the standard? And I believe that giant anteaters are quite a popular choice for pampas exhibits, too.
 
For the Philadlphia Zoo:

Two toed sloth: Currently mixed with agouti; successful for the most part. The agoutis can climb somewhat and, if you give them easy access,

they can climb up and eat the sloth food. You have to be sure to hang the sloths’ feeders in an area inaccessible to the agoutis.

They also have a single male sloth mixed with Goeldi’s monkeys; works well but feeding must also be done with care to make sure that the Goeldis don’t eat all of the sloth food. They had a sloth mixed with white-faced sakis in the past, and it was successful.



Giant anteater: In the past they were mixed with Cabybara and Patagonian cavies. Very successful; no interaction at all between the species.
 
Artis Amsterdam keeps their Anteaters together with vicuna, capybara, mara, rhea and swans. They also keep ninebanded armadillo's with night monkeys, and another armadillo species together with potto's and ground cuscus. The sloths are mixed with different species of small south american monkeys and lesser chevrotain.

Antwerpen keeps his tamandua with some armadillo's and sugar gliders.

Vienna Zoo kept their giant anteaters together with visacha, hutiaconga, seriema and a stork species. Now the anteaters are mixed with the vicuna's tapirs etc.

Duisburg keeps their anteaters together with tapirs and capybara's

Halle mixes their anteaters with marabu's

Munich, anteaters together with vicuna's, mara, capybara, rhea and ducks

Bratislava mixes their sloths with armadillo's

Aschersleben, a smaller armadillo species with squirrel monkeys.
 
From the Jacksonville Zoo:

They do have three-banded armadillos housed together with Hoffmann’s two-toed sloth. They have not had any problems between the two species although they occupy different niches and do not really interact at all. They have giant anteaters in a mixed species exhibit with black howler monkeys and a female capybara. All do well together. The capybara and howler monkeys are pretty respectful of the anteaters and will interact, but are quick to move out of the way with any sign of potential aggressive behavior. In the past it was not uncommon for our female anteater to be observed grooming the capybara’s ear with her tongue for extended periods of time. Hope that is helpful.
 
Hello Al, as You said the aim of this project is basically to find out which combination works and which doesn't I am trying to share some information from this aspect.

Many interesting ethological reports origin from the mixing of Giant Anteater. Almost all of the mixed species exhibits with them worked without major problems and especially the Anteaters are the active initiators of interspecific and friendly contacts. There were many close social contacts between Anteaters, Capybaras and South American Tapirs, whereby those were intensively licked on the ears, anogenital region and on the skin, and the recipients obviously enjoyed it. One of the closest contacts were observed in Dortmund Zoo where an Anteater was drinking milk from a lactating female Tapir. Despite all that, Copenhagen Zoo reported a „hunting behaviour” of the Giant Anteater: more than once young Patagonian Cavies which were not quick enough to hide in their burrows were caught by the Anteaters. The same situation were observed in Tiergarten Schönbrunn and Munich Zoo, where the Anteaters learnt how to dig the young Patagonian Cavies from their burrows.

Many combination develeoped with them in zoos so far, some of these which have not been mentioned yet: with Brocket Deer and with Pudu, or with an other Anteater species, like Tamandua sp.

One of the interesting combinations developed with Sloths in Tiergarten Nürnberg, where kept them together with Manatees. Sloths mostly ignore other animals. Keeping them together with various species of monkeys can be a problem, as the primates always trying to steel the sloths’ food. At the moment we keep our Sloth together with Red-bellied Tamarins and with a Six-banded Armadillo. The Armadillo brings up a hygienel problem, as it loves to dig the faeces (its own and from the sloths’ as well). Sloths can be kept together with various species of birds. Halle reported a problem keeping Sloths together with Finches: the birds did want the long hair for nesting. Halle has had an other mixing in the past, Hoffmann’s Two-toed Sloths together with Mountain Viscacha.
 
Zoo of the University of Mato Grosso of Cuiabá, Brazil, successfully kept together White-nosed Coatis with Six-banded Armadillos in the late 1990's, and maybe after that period as well ...
 
Toronto has their two toed sloth mixed in with their Saki monkeys. I saw a Saki swat at a sloth that ventured too close but other than that they seemed to respect each other.
 
Cleveland Metroparks Zoo

Cleveland-
Sloth with white-faced saki (PCA)
Sloth with golden lion tamarin and with porcupine/agouti (Rainforest upper level)
 
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