Ground Sloth - in Cryptozoology

In Cryptozoology

Cryptozoologists often identify the mapinguari, a mythical forest creature of the upper Amazon basin, with a surviving tropical ground sloth or folk memory of these animals. This despite the fact that the mapinguari is usually stated to be tailless. There is a possible confusion between the mapinguari with another type of reported cryptid, the Lobo-Toro or Capelobo, literally the Bull-Wearing-the-Skin-of-a-Wolf, thought to be a description of the groundsloth as a creature the size of a bull but with the coarse pelt and long thick tail of a wolf.