You find the great sloth-like creature, the 'Megatherium', and the great armadillo, the 'Glyptodon', and so on.

To hell with that,' he said, 'shake the tree and knock the great sloth down on his ass.'

His socio-zoological studies have made him as unshockable, unflappable, benign and tolerant as a Zen master crossed with the great sloth.

Peccaries, now found in Texas, ranged into Michigan and New York, while great sloths from South America reached the middle states.