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with their armament of claws must have been used to loosen 

 the soil from around the roots of trees. Then, rearing on its 

 hind limbs, the enormous grasping power of the arms could be 

 used to bring the undermined tree to the ground. The hind 



Fig. 15. 



Fig. 15. Kestoration of Mylodon hay^lani and modern sloth Choloepus 

 hoffmanni (after Flower and Lydekker), drawn to scale. Compare with fig. 

 3, wherein the relative cranial capacity is shown. One twenty-fourth nat. 

 size. 



limbs, loins, and tail were immensely muscular and abundantly 

 innervated and formed an entirely adequate support for the 

 creature's fore quarters when engaged in this herculean task. 



