Ecuadorean Ground Sloth
Ecuadorean Ground Sloth : Sloth-like mammal of South America.
Physical description:
Length, 10 feet. Long hair. Long, horselike snout.
Behaviour:
Can stand on hind legs but walks on all fours.
Habitat:
Caves. Browses on vegetation.
Distribution:
Ecuador.
Present status:
Only one report from Ecuador in the 1980s.
Possible explanation:
A surviving Giant ground sloth (Megatherium), which could walk either bipedally or quadrupedally. This sloth was a large-bodied browser that lived in South America from the Late Pliocene to the Pleistocene, 1.9 million–8,000 years ago.
Source:
- “Giant Ground Sloth Survival Proposed Anew,” ISC Newsletter 12, no. 1 (1993– 1996): 1–5.
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SOURCE:
Mysterious Creatures – A Guide to Cryptozoology written by George M. Eberhart – Copyright © 2002 by George M. Eberhart