How To Use Armadillo In A Sentence

This procedure confers on the armadillo enough additional buoyancy to enable it to float.
To the insatiable bloody appetite of this creature nothing comes amiss; he takes the male ostrich by surprise, and slays that wariest of wild things on his nest; He captures little birds with the dexterity of a cat, and hunts for diurnal armadillos; he comes unawares upon the deer and huanaco, and, springing like lightning on them, dislocates their necks before their bodies touch the earth. The Naturalist in La Plata
They behave to one another as they do to a foreign armadillo, in spite of their genetic similarity.
Most placental mammals have teeth that are capped with enamel, but there are also lineages without teeth, such as anteaters, pangolins and baleen whales, or with enamelless teeth, such as armadillos, sloths, aardvarks and pygmy and sperm whales. ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science
The armadillo is the only animal that we know of in history when leprosy was prevalent that carried leprosy. CNN Transcript Dec 24, 2009

If you give an armadillo a fright, he'll stop, and drop, and roll up tight.
Molluscs, barnacles, mussels, oysters, tortoises, hedgehogs, armadillos, porcupines, rhinos all grow their own.
In his first article he mistakes a species of the myriapod genus Glomeris for the isopod genus Armadillo. Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution His Life and Work
There are more than 250 species of birds, in an island just 26 miles long and seven miles wide, and animals from armadillos and agoutis to racoons and opossums.
In Florida's Marion County, Interstate 75 cuts right through a state-long swath of greenway that's habitat for bobcats, opossums, and armadillos.
Armadillos range from South America to the southern part of the US.
It may be mentioned that they are subdivided into a number of genera, as the sloths, etcetera; and here, again, without any very sufficient reason, since they all possess the scaly armour -- from which the name armadillo is derived -- and their habits are nearly identical. Quadrupeds, What They Are and Where Found A Book of Zoology for Boys
The armadillo is found in the American South and in Central America.
The common armadillo, or the poyou, is about twenty inches in length, including the tail. The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America
The bony plates on the armadillos' back serves as protective armour from predators.
There are more than 250 species of birds, in an island just 26 miles long and seven miles wide, and animals from armadillos and agoutis to racoons and opossums.
Emiliana Isasi-Catala wades through a creek and moves nimbly through the foliage, scanning the dark earth covered with fallen leaves for the distinctive round toes of jaguar tracks and the faint trails of smaller animals they prey on: agoutis, tapirs, peccaries and armadillos. Jaguars Studied With Motion-Sensing Cameras In Venezuela
Every time he came up to our place for a visit, all I would hear was ‘my armadillo this’ and ‘my armadillo that.’
ballute recovery system meant that the vehicle's Global Positioning System driven steerable main parachute could not be deployed as intended, Armadillo officials stated. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
The armadillo, ground sloth, opposums, and phorusrhacid birds were among the animals that migrated North from South America.
This endangered tropical savanna features an unusual trio of rare mammals the giant anteater, giant armadillo, and maned wolf.
There are a few others who aren't quite weird enough, such as Cantor's Giant Soft-Shelled Turtle, the Long-eared jerboa, or Pink fairy Armadillos, but they're definitely strange. Archive 2008-08-01
Interestingly, armadillos always give birth to identical quintuplets.
In South America, he discovered the bony plates of glyptodonts - creatures reminiscent of armadillos, but much larger - and (at a separate site) the fossil bones of giant ground sloths.
We are more surprised by finding such gigantic proportions in an animal called the megatherium, which ranks in an order now assuming much humbler forms -- the edentata -- to which the sloth, ant-eater, and armadillo belong. Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation
Termites are an important part of the diet of the nine - banded armadillo.
Many smaller animals have also joined the collection: siamang gibbons, provost squirrels, howler monkey, armadillo and the elusive mona monkeys.
The placental mammals include such diverse forms as whales, bats, elephants, shrews, and armadillos.
[1] The glyptodon and armadillo are mammalian; the tortoise is a chelonian, a reptile, distinct classes of the animal kingdom; therefore the latter cannot be a representative of the former. Journey to the Interior of the Earth
On arriving in Texas, he spent most of his research efforts studying polyembryony, first in the armadillo, and then in various parasitic wasps.
My mother said, "I watched a fascinating show on the influx of nutria and armadillos down in Louisiana, which made me think of your fucking father, which made me think of you.
Note 3: armadillo, any of a family (Dasypodidae) of burrowing edentate mammals found from the southern U.S. to Argentina and having the body and head encased in an armor of small bony plates. Albert Collins Lyrics
The island is a natural habitat for abundant wildlife, with alligators (look for them lazing in the sun in Myrtle Pond), fallow deer, river otter, and armadillos.
In Florida's Marion County, Interstate 75 cuts right through a state-long swath of greenway that's habitat for bobcats, opossums, and armadillos.
The large intact grasslands of the savanna and surrounding habitats support diverse mammal populations which include giant anteater Myrmecophaga tridactyla (VU), giant armadillo Priodontes maximus (EN), jaguar Panthera onca, puma Puma concolor and Brazilian tapir Tapirus terrestris (VU). Canaima National Park, Venezuela
But despite the ballute failure, Armadillo Aerospace officials said the STIG A-3 rocket launch accomplished its primary mission, which was to determine the booster's maximum performance capability to test several modifications that had been made since an earlier December flight of the same vehicle. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
She herself rode a great deal at this time, but it was to hunting - and shooting-parties, from which she would return with her "bag" hanging from a sort of little pole fixed to her saddle; and I remember that one day she brought a strange beast that none of us ever saw in Brittany again, a species of armadillo (tatou) that her horse had trodden upon and killed. A Childhood in Brittany Eighty Years Ago
Body colors are mostly gray or brown; pink fairy armadillos have a pinkish shell and pure white, dense fur on their sides and venters.
My neighbors include a family of armadillos, a crafty old opossum and a resourceful raccoon.
EDENTATA, an armadillo, a sort of tatou, covered with a hard bony shell, in movable pieces, and measuring a foot and a half long. In Search of the Castaways
South America was also home to living species of armadillos and sloths.
Nobody with more brains than God gave a dead armadillo is surprised by the balky nature of the Democratic “majority”. Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » Things Will Burn
The wrist bones (or carpals) of armadillos are weird, because the scaphoid is small while the lunate and unciform are particularly big. ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science
As is the case with plants, the hotspot also holds a number of more widespread mammal species, including the jaguar (Panthera onca), Baird's tapir (Tapirus bairdii, EN), the nine-banded armadillo (Dasypus novemcinctus), and the olingo (Bassaricyon gabbii). Biological diversity in Tumbes-Chocó-Magdalena
Farther along we saw a feral hog that was foraging within ten feet of the road - and so many armadillos we quit counting.
Originally, the soundbox of the charango was made from the shell of an armadillo, which gave it a unique sound and appearance.
Seabiscuit helps in an auditioner who is wearing a seven-foot armadillo costume. 'American Idol': Season 10, episode 5 (Austin auditions) UPDATED
The living armadillos of South America bore a striking resemblance to fossil glyptodonts, extinct armored mammals whose fossils occurred in the same area.
Armadillo's rocket concept makes use of a hydrogen peroxide monopropellant.
Living at the same time as Utahraptor was a dinosaur that belonged to the tanklike armadillo shaped ankylosaurs called Gastonia.
Armadillos lack canines, and most have no incisors.
The sloths and armadillos are rather odd mammals characteristic of South America.
My mother said, "I watched a fascinating show on the influx of nutria and armadillos down in Louisiana, which made me think of your fucking father, which made me think of you.
Raccoons, bob cats and armadillos roam the land and gentle manatees (sea cows) swim in the waters of the Indian River.
The living armadillos of South America bore a striking resemblance to fossil glyptodonts, extinct armored mammals whose fossils occurred in the same area.
Janet and I have got the FG2SB minisite in pretty good shape, and will make it live in a few days. wheatland_press has asked for about a dozen copies for ArmadilloCon, and with any luck, we'll get those to her in time as well. House, safe as
‘Some looked like reptilian armadillos or cats, and others looked like little dinosaurs,’ Nesbitt said.
The most impressive of all the armadillo species, when responding to attack, is the three-banded.
South America is the home of a peculiar order of mammalia -- of the edentata, to which belong the sloth, the armadillo, and the like. The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality
In South America, a group known as the Xenarthrans developed, today represented by the anteaters, sloths and armadillos.
Accessible only by boat, the island provides a natural habitat for a diverse community of wildlife including alligators, fallow deer, dolphins, river otters, and armadillos.
The Tatoo helmet (that comes from the french 'tatou' which means armadillo) is made out of flexible (and recyclable!) interconnected polypropylene that unsnaps from itself and packs flat for storage. Original Signal - Transmitting Gadgets
Arlo the armadillo is an engaging character who kids will love. Literacy News – 904th Edition « News « Literacy News
Peccaries, tapirs, anteaters, armadillos, sloths, coatis, and others are around but hard to see.
Americans would indignantly object if anyone said that armadillos and gophers were deformed and grotesque.
You're probably used to seeing the American armadillo, sometimes called the midget armadillo, which only grows to be about yay big.
Several years ago there was a fine armadillo whose body consisted of automobile tires of various sizes.
A longhorn steer attended, as did an armadillo named Scooter.
The group currently includes armadillos, 2-toed sloths, 3-toed sloths, and anteaters, placed in four families containing 29 species.
Living xenarthrans are represented by three morphologically distinct lineages: armored armadillos, toothless anteaters, and phyllophagous tree-sloths.
Among armadillos, some groups reduced their dentition in response to myrmecophagy and some acquired lobate teeth and accentuated differences in hardness of dentine types.
One authority recommends armadillo sausages, well flavoured with coriander seed, basil and bay leaves, garlic, and nutmeg.
South America was also home to living species of armadillos and sloths.
Anteaters, pangolins, and some armadillos use hook-and-pull digging with the enlarged claw of a single, enlarged manual digit to open termite or ant nests made of hard dirt.
The bony plates on the armadillos' back serves as protective armour from predators.
The lutrine opossum Lutreolina crassicaudata, giant anteater and giant armadillo are found there, also bush dog, crab-eating fox Cerdocyon thous, long-tailed weasel Mustela frenata, jaguarundi Herpailurus yagouaroundi, jaguar, puma, oncilla Leopardus tigrinus and margay L. weidii. Canaima National Park, Venezuela
Almost everybody from Mexico to the Argentine eats armadillo.
The charango, a 10-string armadillo shell guitar, an accordion, a guitar, and a quena or bamboo flute add to their lively presentation at 4 p.m., each day. Sedona, Arizona, Events, News and Press
Sir Norman Foster's design for the Clyde Auditorium is universally known as the Armadillo.
I remember him in Zoo Quest bringing down a fleeing armadillo with a rugby tackle.
The fossils they found included mastodons - early relatives of the elephant - primitive horses, rhino and even early camels, as well as crocodiles, giant armadillos, turtles and ground sloths long since extinct.
Then, at the end of the year, I'll be playing a few venues up and down the country, such as the Armadillo in Glasgow.
The bumbling nature of armoured animals is neatly summed up by an anecdote concerning a family of three-banded armadillos.
On a hunt for fossils in Mexico, Warren Stortroen, a former insurance-claims manager, led a paleontologist and fellow diggers to the remains of a giant glyptodont, a three-million-year-old ancestor of the armadillo that's the size of a Volkswagen Beetle. Back to School
The armadillo has a protective shell of bony plates.
The placental mammals include such diverse forms as whales, bats, elephants, shrews, and armadillos.
The land bridge allowed the South American armadillo, porcupine, opossum, and ground sloths to colonize the north, as well as the unique South American notoungulates.
This category includes three very different groups of animals: the armadillos, the ant-eaters, and the sloths.
I remember him in Zoo Quest bringing down a fleeing armadillo with a rugby tackle.
The bony plates on the armadillos' back serves as protective armour from predators.
The glyptodon has if anything replaced the mylodon in my affections—there are about 6 whole ones in the Museum of La Plata—an enormous armadillo up to 9-10 feet long, each scale of its armour looking like a Japanese chrysthanthemum. The News From Everywhere
The land bridge allowed the South American armadillo, porcupine, opossum, and ground sloths to colonize the north, as well as the unique South American notoungulates.
Many smaller animals have also joined the collection: siamang gibbons, provost squirrels, howler monkey, armadillo and the elusive mona monkeys.
While drifting down the river, it is not uncommon to see all types of wildlife like goats, deer, armadillos, foxes and even a rare glimpse of a Bald Eagle.
Originally known only from central and southern Texas, 9-banded armadillos have recently been found as far north as Nebraska.
The armadillo has a protective shell of bony plates.
The edentates, including the sloths, ant-eaters and armadillos, were originally part of a larger group which included aardvarks and pangolins - all had unique extra movable parts between vertebrae in the lower back.
He must distinguish snakes from eels, tortoises from armadillos, on the basis of the bones presented to him.
I dedicate Towel Day, Armadillo Day, No Socks Day, and Juggling Day to my mom.
And from what I think I understand, it's not easy to get into ArmadilloCon as a "newish" writer. Oh, CRAP! But GOOD Crap...
Terborgh found that predators such as pumas, jaguars, anacondas, eagles, armadillos, and some weasels were not able to persist on islands smaller than 37 acres.
Other species include giant armadillo Priodontes maximuss (EN), paca Cuniculus paca and prehensile-tailed porcupine Coendou bicolor. Rio Abiseo National Park, Peru
The Armadillos were as shadows of a dark, machinated dream. Oberheim (Voices)
The rocket body, nose cone and ballute were all recovered on Spaceport America property, Armadillo officials said in a Feb. 1 statement. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
There are more than 250 species of birds, in an island just 26 miles long and seven miles wide, and animals from armadillos and agoutis to racoons and opossums.
In South America, a group known as the Xenarthrans developed, today represented by the anteaters, sloths and armadillos.
I'd imagine it was Steve answering all the letters, sometimes as himself, sometimes as an "armadillo" -- apparently he was famous for that. Steve Gerber, the Son of Satan, and Evil | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources
The armadillo-like glyptodont, for example, was the size of a small car, covered in plates of body armor, and equipped with a hefty tail club.
Originally, the soundbox of the charango was made from the shell of an armadillo, which gave it a unique sound and appearance.
He remembered his own hardscrabble youth in Texas and vowed that the poor armadillos he grew up with would have a fighting chance at the American Dream if he could have any say in the matter.
The sloths and armadillos are rather odd mammals characteristic of South America.
Anteaters, pangolins, and some armadillos use hook-and-pull digging with the enlarged claw of a single, enlarged manual digit to open termite or ant nests made of hard dirt.
Most serious parasitic diseases, Eke bilharziasis or malaria, are transmitted through snails, armadillos, kissing bugs, goats: you name the critter and I'll pop up with a zoonosis to go with it. Anywhen
Robert had killed a curious animal belonging to the order Edentata, an armadillo, a sort of tatou, covered with a hard bony shell, in movable pieces, and measuring a foot and a half long. In Search of the Castaways
Peccaries, tapirs, anteaters, armadillos, sloths, coatis, and others are around but hard to see.
The sloths and armadillos are rather odd mammals characteristic of South America.
At CIMMYT in the 1970s, the crop's agronomic breakthroughs came from crosses between Armadillo (a hexaploid) and some newly created octoploid triticales, of which the Maya group were among the first. 5 Breeding Triticale
Three-banded armadillos developed a unique antipredator strategy by entirely rolling up into a ball, and nine-banded armadillos are the only vertebrates to reproduce by obligate monozygotic polyembryony.
So why are some fellow Republicans acting as if Bush were a rabid armadillo?
Some 850 species of birds have been identified and rare species such as the giant otter and the giant armadillo also find refuge there.
Can you think of any other animals that roll into a ball for defence as well as an armadillo or hedgehog?
Other species take refuge in a protective structure surrounding their body, such as polychaete tubeworms, caddis fly larvae, gastropod and bivalve mollusks, hermit crabs, barnacles, turtles, and armadillos.
Another group of uniquely South American mammals, the edentates (sloths, armadillos and anteaters), survived the competition with the invaders and are still abundant in South America.
The lutrine opossum Lutreolina crassicaudata, giant anteater and giant armadillo are found there, also bush dog, crab-eating fox Cerdocyon thous, long-tailed weasel Mustela frenata, jaguarundi Herpailurus yagouaroundi, jaguar, puma, oncilla Leopardus tigrinus and margay L. weidii. Canaima National Park, Venezuela
Several groups of xenarthrans successfully crossed the Central American land bridge to North America when it formed in the Pliocene; these included a number of kinds of ground sloths and armadillos.
As floodwaters turned hilltops into islands, a key group of animals - predators such as jaguars, harpy eagles, and armadillos - disappeared from the islands.
To cross deeper or broader stretches of water, armadillos gulp air into the digestive tract and swim like a dog.
The rabbit called the armadillo at once and together they rolled a big stone upon the monkey's tail. Fairy Tales from Brazil How and Why Tales from Brazilian Folk-Lore

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