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ARRoGANT CoURiERS WiTH ESSaYS
Grade Level: Type of Work Subject/Topic is on:
[x]6-8 [ ]Class Notes [Essay on the Armadillo ]
[ ]9-10 [ ]Cliff Notes [ ]
[ ]11-12 [x]Essay/Report [ ]
[ ]College [ ]Misc [ ]
Dizzed: 06/94 # of Words:423 School: Private/CoEd State: NY
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Armadillo
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 bet was effective in getting a
snake to its armored hide and grinding the life out of it. It then
eats the snake not effected by the poison. The king of the tribe is
the Great Armadillo. It is a big creature in appearance, a yard in
length from nose to tail covered with the armor. It even has armor on
its legs. Its claws are very long and awfully strong. The Three-
banded Armadillos had a further protection. They are able to curl up
like a hedgehog and present an impenetrable ball to an enemy. It is
similar than that of a hedgehog or the porcupine, but it is more
interesting because of the way they fit themselves into their armor.
Their head and tail pass perfectly through openings in the upper
surface of the armor. These openings are bony doors.
The back of a typical Glyptodon was covered with a solid piece of
bony armor. The tail looked like a bunch of bony rings. The backbone
was solid except at the neck. At the neck, there is a joint which
allows the head to fit under the bony plate. Some members of the
family had tails of solid bone.
Bibliography
1. Prodigy - Grolier Electronic Publishing, 1990, A-section
2. The Book of Knowledge - Grolier Publishing, 1933-1935, A-Section