Walking With Wikis
Don't have an account?
Register
Register
Walking With Wikis
Walking With Wikis
777
pages
in: Omnivores, Sabre Tooth animals, Cenozoic animals,
and 22 more

Changes: Megatherium

Back to page
Sign in to edit
(Adding categories)
(Adding categories)
(42 intermediate revisions by 18 users not shown)
Line 1: Line 1:
  ⚫
{{Infobox creature||name = ''Megatherium americanum''
−
{{Dinoseries|WWB}}{{Infobox_Creature
  
−
|image = [[File:WWBBook Megatherium.jpg|300px]]
 +
|image = [[File:WWB_Megatherium_render.png|thumb]]
  ⚫
|time = Late [[Pliocene]] to late [[Pleistocene]] epoch
⚫
|Scientific name = ''Megatherium americanum''
  
  ⚫
|diet = Omnivore
⚫
|Time period = Late [[Pliocene]] to late [[Pleistocene]] epoch
  
⚫
|Primary diet = Omnivore
  
 
|Fatalities caused = One ''[[Smilodon]]''
  
|Fatalities caused = One ''[[Smilodon]]''
−
|Appearances = ''[[Walking With Beasts]]'' <small>(''[[Sabre Tooth]]'')</small>}}
 +
|appearances = ''[[Walking with Beasts]]'' <small>(''[[Sabre Tooth]]'')</small>}}'''''Megatherium''''' was a very large giant ground sloth of [[Pliocene]] and [[Pleistocene]] [[South America]].
   
⚫
'''''Megatherium''''' was a giant ground sloth, featured on WWB. As big as an elephant, it lived in South America during the Pliocene-Pleistocene periods alongside ''[[Smilodon]], [[Doedicurus]], ''and other South American megafauna.
  
 
==Facts==
  
==Facts==
  ⚫
A member of the [[Edentate|Xenarthran]] family of mammals (along with ''[[Doedicurus]]''), ''Megatherium'' had huge claws, grew to 6–8 meters long from nose to tail, weighed more than an elephant, and usually ate vegetation, but it was also large enough and strong enough to occassionlly supplement its diet with carrion scavenged from predators, and when it wanted to, nothing got in its way
   
  +
[[File:Evi megatherium large.jpg|thumb|''Megatherium'' with ''Macrauchenia'' in the background.]]
⚫
A member of the [[Edentate|Xenarthran]] mammal family (along with ''Doedicurus''), ''Megatherium'' had huge claws, grew to 6-8 meters long from nose to tail, weighed more than an elephant and usually ate plants, but it was also big and strong enough to eat carrion, on occasion, to supplement its diet, not unlike the short-faced bear of North America, and when it wanted to, nothing got in its' way. 
  
  +
  ⚫
As big as an elephant, it lived in [[South America]] during the Pliocene-Pleistocene periods alongside ''[[Smilodon]]'', ''Doedicurus'', and other South American megafauna.
  +
  +
[[File:Megatherium with carrion.jpg|thumb|left|A ''Megatherium'' about to feed on a ''Hippidion'' carcass.]]
  +
  ⚫
''Megatherium'' had armor-plated skin for defense and powerful clawed forelimbs for attack. Regardless of that, ''Megatherium'' died out around 8,000 years ago, during the [[Holocene]] time period.
   
⚫
''Megatherium'' had armor-plated skin for defense and powerful clawed forelimbs for attack. Regardless of that, ''Megatherium'' died out 8000 yrs ago, during the Pleistocene time period. There are rumors that they may've survived in modern times as the ''Mapinguara'' cryptid, but that is unknown.
  
 
==In Walking With... series==
  
==In Walking With... series==
−
===''[[Walking With Beasts]]''===
 +
===''[[Walking with Beasts]]''===
−
====''[[Saber Tooth]]''====
 +
====[[Saber Tooth]]====
  +
[[File:P00bk49n 640 360.jpg|thumb|300px|A giant ground sloth eating plants]]
−
A pair of megatheres is shown feeding on trees, while Half-Tooth the ''Smilodon ''gives them a wide berth. Later on, another ''Megatherium'' kills another ''Smilodon'' in a fight over carrion.[[File:Megatherium.png|thumb|The ''Megatherium'' in ''Walking with Beasts''.]]
 +
A pair of ''Megatherium'' is shown feeding on trees, while [[Half-Tooth]] the ''Smilodon'' gives them a wide berth. Then, another ''Megatherium'' scares a ''[[Macrauchenia]]'' away from Half-Tooth, causing him to fail. Later on, another ''Megatherium'' kills one of the [[The Brothers|''Smilodon'' Brothers]] in a fight over carrion.
  +
  +
[[File:Megatherium.png|thumb|The ''Megatherium'' in ''Walking with Beasts''.]]
   
  +
==Trivia==
  +
*The ''Megatherium'''s call was produced by lowering the pitch on recordings of goat bleats.
  +
*The character of Sid the sloth from the Ice Age franchise is a Megatherium. Unlike, in Walking With Beasts, Megatherium in Ice Age are portrayed as stupid idiots the height of a wolf that can be bullied by anybody.
   
  +
==Gallery==
−
{{Walking With Beasts Creatures}}
  
  +
<gallery>
⚫
[[Category:Herbivores]]
  
  +
Tnt24.info Walking with - Monsters Dinosaurs Beasts Cavemen Eng Subtitles include .6841 438159.jpeg
⚫
[[Category:Carnivores]]
  
  +
</gallery>
 
[[Category:Omnivores]]
  
[[Category:Omnivores]]
 
[[Category:Sabre Tooth animals]]
  
[[Category:Sabre Tooth animals]]
Line 30: Line 41:
 
[[Category:Pleistocene animals]]
  
[[Category:Pleistocene animals]]
 
[[Category:Animals from South America]]
  
[[Category:Animals from South America]]
  ⚫
[[Category:Mammals]]
  +
[[Category:Solitary animals]]
  ⚫
[[Category:Scavengers]]
  +
[[Category:Quadrupedal animals]]
  +
[[Category:Bipedal animals]]
  +
[[Category:Viviparous animals]]
  +
[[Category:Omnivorous Animals]]
  +
[[Category:Pleistocene Animals]]
  +
[[Category:Group animals]]
  +
[[Category:Social animals]]
  +
[[Category:Prehistoric creatures]]
  +
[[Category:Creatures]]
  +
[[Category:Walking with Beasts Animals]]
  +
[[Category:Animals]]
  +
[[Category:Elephants]]
  +
[[Category:GIRAFFES AND ANTELOPES]]
  +
[[Category:Prehistoric Creatures described in 1796]]

Revision as of 02:56, 29 June 2020

       Megatherium was a very large giant ground sloth of Pliocene and Pleistocene South America.

Facts

A member of the Xenarthran family of mammals (along with Doedicurus), Megatherium had huge claws, grew to 6–8 meters long from nose to tail, weighed more than an elephant, and usually ate vegetation, but it was also large enough and strong enough to occassionlly supplement its diet with carrion scavenged from predators, and when it wanted to, nothing got in its way

Evi megatherium large

Megatherium with Macrauchenia in the background.

As big as an elephant, it lived in South America during the Pliocene-Pleistocene periods alongside Smilodon, Doedicurus, and other South American megafauna.

Megatherium with carrion

A Megatherium about to feed on a Hippidion carcass.

Megatherium had armor-plated skin for defense and powerful clawed forelimbs for attack. Regardless of that, Megatherium died out around 8,000 years ago, during the Holocene time period.

In Walking With... series

Walking with Beasts

Saber Tooth

P00bk49n 640 360

A giant ground sloth eating plants

A pair of Megatherium is shown feeding on trees, while Half-Tooth the Smilodon gives them a wide berth. Then, another Megatherium scares a Macrauchenia away from Half-Tooth, causing him to fail. Later on, another Megatherium kills one of the Smilodon Brothers in a fight over carrion.

Megatherium

The Megatherium in Walking with Beasts.

Trivia

  • The Megatherium's call was produced by lowering the pitch on recordings of goat bleats.
  • The character of Sid the sloth from the Ice Age franchise is a Megatherium. Unlike, in Walking With Beasts, Megatherium in Ice Age are portrayed as stupid idiots the height of a wolf that can be bullied by anybody.

Gallery

Community content is available under CC-BY-SA unless otherwise noted.