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Table of Contents Introduction What is an armadillo? How do armadillos act? The history of armadillos and humans Nine-banded armadillo Northern naked-tailed armadillo Greater fairy armadillo Giant armadillo Screaming hairy armadillo Pink fairy armadillo Conclusion Author Bio Publisher Introduction The armadillo is commonly known in the Southern parts of the United States of America, as well as in Central America. But what many people from this area, especially the United States of America, don't realize is that there are more types and appearances to the armadillo than they think. From tiny to huge, from looking prehistoric to looking cute, to looking like something that couldn't win against a pig in a beauty contest, the armadillo comes in many types. The armadillo is truly a unique creature of the Americas.
This dynamite digger can range in size from hamster size to the size of a golden retriever! Meet the amazing armadillo - one of the world's most unusual animals. Wild Life LOL! introduces young readers to some of the most amazing animals on the planet in a surprising and laugh-out-loud-funny way. Each book is brimming with colorful photos, bite-sized text, wacky facts, jokes, and riddles that will entertain every child who picks it up.
“Chatty, humorous, and sometimes almost hysterically funny . . . Everything, perhaps even more, that you might have wanted to know about armadillos.” —The Quarterly Review of Biology Perhaps no creature has so fired the imagination of a populace as the armadillo, that most ungainly, awkward, and timid little animal. What is it that sets this quizzical little creature apart from the rest of the animal kingdom? Larry L. Smith and Robin W. Doughty ably answer this question in The Amazing Armadillo: Geography of a Folk Critter. This informative book traces the spread of the nine-banded armadillo from its first notice in South Texas late in the 1840s to its current range east to Florida and...
Details the characteristics, habitat, and life cycle of the nine-banded armadillo. Includes photo diagram.
Looks at armadillo burrows and how armadillos use them to stay safe and raise their young.
On a cold winter's morning, Lorimer Black, an insurance adjustor -- young, good-looking, on the rise -- goes to keep a perfectly ordinary appointment only to find a hanged man. His life is about to be turned upside down and in directions he never imagined. The elements at play: A beautiful actress with whom he finds himself falling in love after a quick glimpse of her in a passing taxi ... an odd, new, business associate whose hiring, firing and rehiring make little sense ... a rock musician whose loss -- in this case of his mind -- may be "adjusted" by the insurance company. What ties it all together: a web of fraud in which virtually everyone he knows is somewhat involved, a web in which he finds himself being increasingly entangled.
“Boynton is the absolute master of board books.”—The New York Times Book Review For more than forty years, readers have wondered what happens to the armadillo on the last page of Sandra Boynton’s But Not the Hippopotamus. At last, comes the long-awaited sequel! The armadillo follows the less-traveled road: he picks cranberries, stops and smells the flowers, naps in the meadow, and at day’s end passes an overeager hippo sprinting in the other direction. Told with Boynton’s signature charm and unpredictability, But Not the Armadillo is a worthy companion to But Not the Hippopotamus. Behold the armadillo, with his armadillo nose. That nose can take him anywhere. He follows where it goes.
The word armadillo is Spanish for “little armored one.” This midsize mammal that looks like a walking tank is a source of fascination for many people but a mystery to almost all. Dating back at least eleven million years, the nocturnal, burrowing insectivore was for centuries mistaken for a cross between a hedgehog and a turtle, but it actually belongs to the mammalian superorder Xenarthra that includes sloths and anteaters. Biologists W. J. Loughry and Colleen M. McDonough have studied the nine-banded armadillo (Dasypus novemcinctus) for more than twenty years. Their richly illustrated book offers the first comprehensive review of everything scientists know about this unique animal. Eng...
Armadillo and Hare live with their friends in the Big Forest.Hare loves dancing. Armadillo loves cheese sandwiches.Hare loves playing the tuba. Armadillo loves cheese sandwiches.Hare loves his best friend, Armadillo. Armadillo loves Hare - AND cheese sandwiches!They have quite a mix of friends, including an acrobatic wombat, a know-it-all lobster, a hungry jaguar, and (let's not forget) the invisible stick insect.