[Answer] What small, tree-hugging animal was once the size of an elephant?

Trivia: What small, tree-hugging animal was once the size of an elephant?

Koala
Sloth
Chameleon
Lemur

The correct answer is Sloth

So why is this answer correct? : Megatherium americanum, literally meaning “great beast from America,” was a species of giant ground sloth from southwestern South America. Megatherium was 10 times the size of modern sloths and weighed up to 4.4 tons — the average weight of an African elephant. Because it could stand and walk on its legs (at a towering 12 feet), Megatherium remains the biggest bipedal mammal that ever lived.

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