But Not the Armadillo

• Author : Sandra Boynton
• Publisher : Little Simon
• Release : 04 September 2018

For more than thirty-five years, readers have wondered what happens to the mystery armadillo on the last page of Sandra Boynton’s classic board book, But Not the Hippopotamus. Now, at last, comes the long-awaited sequel. Behold the armadillo, a cute and curious creature who follows his nose wherever it goes. Join him as he quietly travels the less-traveled road: he picks cranberries, stops and smells the flowers, takes a nap in the meadow, searches out the source of a

• Author : Colleen M. McDonough,W. J. Loughry
• Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
• Release : 18 March 2013

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

• Author : Linda Wylie BearDen
• Publisher : Archway Publishing
• Release : 09 July 2015

Austin, Bo, Charley, and Danny are newborn armadillos who live in the Texas Hill Country under a spacious oak tree they share with Mr. Oliver, a great horned owl who helps their mother watch over them when they are not sleeping. But as Mr. Oliver and Mother Armadillo already know, keeping the four little boys safe from all the dangers in their environment is not an easy task. As the boys’ skin hardens into shells, they slowly begin to emerge

• Author : Larry L. Smith,Robin W. Doughty
• Publisher : University of Texas Press
• Release : 04 December 2012

Perhaps no creature has so fired the imagination of a populace as the armadillo—that most ungainly, awkward, and timid little animal. Its detractors call it a varmint and wish it good speed from the Lone Star State and its other natural territories. But its supporters claim that it is the animal kingdom’s representative of all that’s truly Texan: tough, pioneering, adaptable, and generous in sharing its habitation with others. What is it that sets this quizzical little

• Author : Carolyn Holbrook
• Publisher : Lulu Press, Inc
• Release : 19 October 2015

This is a children's life lesson story starring Artie Armadillo and his Woodland Friends dealing with obeying parents, being a follower of someone that gets you into trouble, destroying other people's property, and being safe when crossing the street.

• Author : Sergio F. Vizcaíno,Richard F. Kay,M. Susana Bargo
• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
• Release : 11 October 2012

Coastal exposures of the Santa Cruz Formation in southern Patagonia have been a fertile ground for recovery of Early Miocene vertebrates for more than 100 years. This volume presents a comprehensive compilation of important mammalian groups which continue to thrive today. It includes the most recent fossil finds as well as important new interpretations based on 10 years of fieldwork by the authors. A key focus is placed on the paleoclimate and paleoenvironment during the time of deposition in the Middle Miocene

• Author : Christian K. Wedemeyer,Wendy Doniger
• Publisher : Oxford University Press
• Release : 21 May 2022

This volume comprises papers presented at a conference marking the 50th anniversary of Joachim Wach's death, and the centennial of Mircea Eliade's birth. Its purpose is to reconsider both the problematic, separate legacies of these two major twentieth-century historians of religions, and the bearing of these two legacies upon each other. Shortly after Wach's death in 1955, Eliade succeeded him as the premiere historian of religions at the University of Chicago. As a result, the two have been associated with each

• Author : Eddie Wilson,Jesse Sublett
• Publisher : University of Texas Press
• Release : 04 April 2017

“Eddie’s story is by turns hilarious, informative, and the living spirit of its age. . . . [He] piles the most unlikely anecdotes on top of one another, creating a land of enchantment and an order of chemically altered consciousness that rescues an era I’d thought not so much lost as forgotten. Not only am I thrilled I’ve read this story and wish I was in it, I wish I’d written it.” —Dave Marsh, from the foreword “The Armadillo

• Author : Townsend (Mrs. Grace.)
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 21 May 1890

• Author : William Boyd
• Publisher : Penguin UK
• Release : 25 February 1999

Armadillo is the classic comic bestseller by William Boyd, author of Any Human Heart 'A young man not much over thirty, tall with ink-dark hair and a serious-looking, fine-featured but pallid face, went to keep a business appointment and discovered a hanged man' Lorimer Black - young, good-looking, but with a somewhat troubled expression - does not understand why his world is being torn apart, though he does know that for the most part it is made up of bluster

• Author : Felix Williams
• Publisher : Lulu Press, Inc
• Release : 17 August 2017

Kuro is a young armadillo who, due to a prophecy passed down for generations among the people of his hometown, is destined to be sacrificed when he turns sixteen. When he panics and runs away from home shortly before the scheduled date, the townspeople's lives are thrown into turmoil as they begin to call their own beliefs into question, while Kuro himself must struggle with both his own doubts and the dangers of the wilderness. Despite starring animals as its

• Author : Lynne Cherry
• Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Release : 01 March 1999

A wandering armadillo sees some of the cities, historic sites, geographic features, and wildlife of Texas.

• Author : William Van Zyl
• Publisher : Five House Publishing
• Release : 05 September 2018

OVERVIEW AND SUMMARY: Who will read this book? Adults, teachers, tertiary and secondary school students (15-year-olds and older). What is covered in this book? Sustainable architectural design, including a design brief for a sleep-out. This book contains some guidelines and hints for solving the ARMADILLO AND ONION INSPIRED SLEEPOUT DESIGN BRIEF. Situation: You are an architect who loves designing sleep-outs. You recently became interested in sustainable architecture and biomimetics. You have decided to investigate, explore, and research sustainable architectural practice.

• Author : Darin A. Croft
• Publisher : Indiana University Press
• Release : 29 August 2016

A thrilling guide to the Cenozoic mammals of South America, featuring seventy-five life reconstructions of extinct species, plus photos of specimens and sites. South America is home to some of the most distinctive mammals on Earth—giant armadillos, tiny anteaters, the world’s largest rodent, and its smallest deer. But the continent once supported a variety of other equally intriguing mammals that have no close living relatives: armored mammals with tail clubs, saber-toothed marsupials, and even a swimming sloth. We

• Author : William Berryman Scott
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 21 May 2022