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Identifier: littlefolksinfea00mill (find matches)
Title: Little folks in feathers and fur, and others in neither
Year: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: (Miller, Harriet (Mann) Mrs.), 1831- (from old catalog)
Subjects: Zoology
Publisher: Hartford, Conn., Dustin, Gilman & co. Cincinnati, Ohio, Queen city publishing co. (etc., etc.)
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that they notonly torment the poor fellow, but are the first to give notice to thehunter when he is to be found. In South America this odd looking fellow is eaten, roasted inhis own shell. The Giant Armadillo is sometimes three feet long,and in some parts of America fossil bones have been found of anArmadillo ten feet long besides the tail. He is not the only creature that nature has dressed in coat ofmail. Heres another, even odder than the Armadillo. He iscalled the Short Tailed Pengolin or Manisâsometimes also scalyLizard. You wouldnt have thought his tail was particularly short,would you? you would if you had seen the long tailed Manis. V 32 LITTLE FOLKS This interesting creature is covered with scales, which overlapeach other like shingles on a roof. He has no ears, at least nonethat can be seen outside, and no teeth. He lives entirely on ants,which he procures by tearing open an ant hill, and running into ita long sticky tongue, which holds fast every unhappy ant it touches.
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If this scaly gentleman is attacked, he scorns to run away, butrolls himself into a ball at once, when his coat of mail protects himfrom all enemies. To perform this curious operation, he throwshimself on his back, bends his head over towards his stomach,arches up his back, and wraps his strong tail tightly around thewhole. This gentleman lives in the woods of India and Africa, andhis name, Pengolin, means to roll into a ball. For a house, he digsout a burrow seven or eight feet deep. The baby Pengolins haveno scales at first, but have a skin like leather, marked however justVke their mother. The whole family are gentle and easily trained,when they become affectionate pets. IN FEATHERS AND FUR. 33 if^.

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