Mataco

“Tolypeutes. It is about fifteen inches long, and having the faculty of rolling itself into a ball, is called Belita, or Little Ball, by the Spaniards. This is in fact its usual mode of escape or defense, as the animal doe snot burrow, and has not sufficient speed for flight.” — S. G. Goodrich, 1885

Keywords

Armadillo

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Source

S. G. Goodrich, The Animal Kingdom Illustrated (New York: A. J. Johnson & Co., 1885) 469

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