Two doors down were three little brown Monkeys caged with an Armadillo who looked like a toy, iron-plated gun-boat.
Mr. Hudson, in his most interesting book, A Naturalist in La Plata, narrates how he watched an armadillo kill a snake and then devour it.
Their only enemies seem to be the monkeys, and one of the tricks of the young monkeys in the American forests is, when they find an armadillo away from home, to pull its tail unmercifully, and try to drag it about.
Why the colossal forms of armadillo should have become extinct and only small ones survived to the present time, is one of the many and perplexing problems presented by the study of extinct animals.
Now, although it eats a great many things that are repulsive to civilized tastes, the armadillo is itself a most delicious article of food for any human taste, civilized or uncivilized.
Any reference to the animals of Patagonia that omitted the armadillo would be noticeably defective.
Nor was my judgment in the matter influenced by hunger, for my first armadillo was served unexpectedly after a plentiful repast of good beef roasted on a spit.
It does not follow, however, that the flesh of the armadillo should be "queer" because the animal itself eats queer substances.
Again I cruised, like an armadillo on a grassplat, there and back again.
The Indians are very fond of the flesh of the Armadillo as food, especially when young; but, when old, it acquires a strong musky flavour.
It should here be observed that the Three-banded Armadillo is remarkable for the faculty of rolling itself up more completely than the other species.
Naturalists have marvelled at the fact that native Paraguayans find whether an armadillo is at home by poking a stick into his burrow, when (if he is) out comes a swarm of mosquitoes.
The armadillo won't open his shell for anything--figuratively as well as literally speaking.
If a raging mad jaguar prances up to an armadillo, the armadillo curls up quietly with an expression that says: "Really, you excite yourself overmuch; I suppose you want to gnaw me.
There are several sorts of armadillo here, but all are equally indifferent to criticism.
Withal the armadillo is indifferent alike to flattery and abuse: you can no more hurt his feelings than his back.
The armadillo is a placid creature, with none of the warlike disposition that its armour might lead some to expect.
While l'Encuerado was preparing thearmadillo and the woodpecker, which we were to have for dinner, we walked down the course of the stream, the agreeable freshness of which was very pleasant to us.
The rustling of dry leaves attracted our attention to a slope opposite to us, on which an armadillo was seen.
They at once killed both animals, for they are exceedingly fond of armadillo flesh, and cook the animal in its skin.
It was during this part of our day's journey that the peons made two captures of live animals in an armadillo and a nutria.
The Chinese pharmacopoeia is very comprehensive; tigers' bones and deer's horns are well-known celestial remedies, but dried armadillo skins as a drug had hitherto escaped our ken.
Dalquest trapped an individual seven kilometers southwest of La Purisima using the body of an armadillo as bait.
The hunter who obtained it regarded it as a hybrid between an Armadillo and an Anteater.
A primitive genus also appears to be Peltephilus, which is perhaps rather anArmadillo than a Glyptodon.
This Armadillo may reach a length of 3 feet to the base of the tail.
Hudson has described the way in which this Armadillo will kill a snake by holding it down and literally sawing the reptile in half by help of the sharp and serrated edges of the carapace.
But the Armadillo Tatusia was subsequently found to possess a second suppressed dentition, and after this discovery Mr. Thomas proved that Orycteropus is also diphyodont.
Nurse McCully of the Royal infirmary, Liverpool, has anArmadillo as a pet.
Besides, the sloth and armadillo are the only quadrupeds, which have neither incisive nor canine teeth, but whose grinders are cylindrical, and round at the extremities, nearly like those of some cetaceous animals.
Besides, it may be presumed, that this nine-striped armadillo is not really a distinct species from the eight, which he resembles in every other respect.
The armadillo is hunted with small dogs, by whom he is soon overtaken; but before they have reached him he contracts himself, in which condition he is seized, and carried off.
Watson has given a description of an armadillo with nine bands, and a long tail, (fig.
The armadillo is also found covered with large scales, and when disturbed curls up similar to our hedgehogs.
The rabbit and the armadillo are very good friends.
The armadillo had not heard of any danger, but he replied that it had passed.
Let the one who got you in there help you out," replied the armadillo as he went on his way.
The monkey, the goat, and the armadillo have all failed to give satisfaction.
The armadillo was very strong and he did the work well.
The armadillo is very, very strong, you know, so it was he whom the rabbit asked to help him.
There were a great many ants about the place and the armadillocould never pass by a sweet tender juicy ant without stopping to eat it.
Along came the armadillo and the tiger called out, "O, armadillo, has the danger passed?
The rabbit called the armadillo at once and together they rolled a big stone upon the monkey's tail.
Frank, Harry, and the little ones, were sucking away at the natural preserves of the acacia, while I was dressing my armadillo for the spit.
Seeing this, I seized the tail firmly; and, giving it a sudden jerk, swung the armadillo out between the feet of my companion.
In a very short while the fire was blazing up, the beef and beans were bubbling over it in the tin-pot, and the armadillo was sputtering on the spit beside them.
The six-banded armadillo is so called because the horny plate upon its back is broken up into six separate bands, all of which, however, are closely linked together by bony rings.
The giant armadillois very much larger, growing to the length of nearly a yard from the tip of the snout to the root of the tail.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "armadillo" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: animal; antelope; armadillo; bat; elephant; hare; horse; kangaroo; mammal; opossum; pig; rat
