giant anteaters

“About that time, also from the Americas, the first report of a hummingbird reached Europe; the first accurate report of an armadillo; the first report of a toucan; the first reports of giant anteaters and sloths and vicunas and one useful bird that was quickly welcomed to the Old World as a domestic, the turkey; the first report of the American bison, a giant-headed animal almost too majestic to be real.”

Simon & Schuster: The Song of The Dodo