274 TYPES OF ANIMAL LIFE 



the other : such megatheriods heing the only yet known 

 representatives of the parents of both the sloths and 

 also of the ant-eaters, which we thus know to be the 

 nearest alUes of, although wonderfully different in habits 

 from, that most exceptional and at first most misunder- 

 stood animal, the sloth. 



