Armadillo
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The Armadillo is a very different creature. It has tremendous claws,
but no fighting instinct. They have teeth, but not in front, except for
the milk teeth some have during infancy. They have long tongues because
they catch insects. A strange thing which these animals have is a coat
armor, unique among other animals. They have bony plate armor on the
outside of their bodies'. Each species has a different pattern for every
little plate they carry. They all are great burrowers. They sink a hole
with them in it as one approaches. It takes a good man to haul even a
little one back if it is halfway down it's retreat under the ground.
They are active, running with a tiptoe trot. Their trot is as an aged
pony that is tired. They have a varied diet. They hunt by night.
Today's Armadillos are not the biggest armadillos that have ever
existed. The soil of South America is full of larger Armadillo bones from
the past. Some of the past bones were as much as sixteen feet long
including the tail. Some even migrated to Texas.
There are several species of these animals. The Six-banded Armadillos
were good burrowers and massive devourers of insects. They also ate
vegetable matter and were useful for devouring carrion. One specie called
the Peludo was clumsy...
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