Armadillos
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An armadillo is a mammal noted for its armour and ability to curl into a ball.
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[edit]- ‘Son, son!’ said Mother Jaguar ever so many times, graciously waving her tail, ‘a Hedgehog is a Hedgehog, and can’t be anything but a Hedgehog; and a Tortoise is a Tortoise, and can never be anything else.’
- ‘But it isn’t a Hedgehog, and it isn’t a Tortoise. It’s a little bit of both, and I don’t know its proper name.’
- 'Nonsense!' said Mother Jaguar. 'Everything has its proper name. I should call it "Armadillo" till I found out the real one. And I should leave it alone.'
- Rudyard Kipling: The Beginning of the Armadillos
- I've never seen a Jaguar,
Nor yet an Armadill-
o dilloing in his armour,
And I s'pose I never will,
Unless I go to Rio
These wonders to behold--
Roll down--roll down to Rio--
Roll really down to Rio!
Oh, I'd love to roll to Rio
Some day before I'm old!- Rudyard Kipling: The Beginning of the Armadillos
- The ancient owls' nest must have burned.
Hastily, all alone,
a glistening armadillo left the scene,
rose-flecked, head down, tail down- Elizabeth Bishop: Poem: The Armadillo
- For a single armadillo, you will own,
On Salisbury Plain in summer is comparatively rare,
And a pair of them is practically unknown.- Michael Flanders: Song The Armadillo
- Dada doubts everything. Dada is an armadillo. Everything is Dada, too. Beware of Dada. [1]
