Lumberjack

A lumberjack is a species of giant chalicothere native to South America. They are descended from a group of chalicotheriums that have spread into South America from North America after spreading from their ancient homelands of Eurasia, and after outcompeting native mainland small and medium-sized ground sloths to extinction, over time, due to abundance of food in some areas, these chalicotheriums grew much larger and more elephantine in build, and while gigantic species of ground sloths such as megatheriums becoming extinct in the last Ice Age, the newly evolved lumberjacks have spread into areas where gigantic ground sloths once lived in, finding more food for them. Lumberjacks are mostly herbivorous, mainly on fruits, nuts, leaves, and in some species, roots and tubers, but they also feed on honey (from beehives), insects, and carrion of large animals. Due to their large size and thick skin, they are almost completely immune to bee stings (even ones from invasive Africanized bees), wasp/hornet stings, etc and bitting insects, so they can feed on hives with no harm. Depending on a species, lumberjacks range from the size of a large Gigantopithecus to the size of an Paraceratherium, making lumberjacks among the largest land mammals on Earth, surpassed only by a prehistoric elephant, palaeoloxodon namadicus. There are more than 43 species of lumberjacks of South America. Like most species of chalicotheres, lumberjacks are mostly quadrupedal, walking on all fours, only to rear up to reach for taller branches or to scare off potential predators, but if this doesn't scare off predators, they swing their massive claws to fight back, often harming or killing the predators that intrude their territory, predators that try to kill them, or if the lumberjacks themselves are trying to steal kills from predators.