armadillo

armadillo (är´me-dîl´o) noun
plural armadillos
Any of several omnivorous, burrowing, edentate mammals (family Dasypodidae), native to southern North America and South America and characterized by an armorlike covering consisting of jointed, bony plates.

[Spanish, diminutive of armado, armored, past participle of armar, to arm, from Latin armâre, from arma, arms.]

Armadillo

Armadillo, armored mammal, related to anteaters and sloths. They are found in South and Central America and in southern parts of North America. The layer of horn and bony plates that protect the animal against predators is formed by the ossification of skin. In most species the plates are movable and articulated, so that the animal can curl up to protect its abdomen. The armadillo moves relatively quickly, and with its strong feet and thick claws it can also burrow quickly. Nocturnal, armadillos feed on insects and worms and sometimes on carrion. Fossil remains of gigantic extinct armadillos have been found in the Pleistocene strata of South America.
Scientific classification: Armadillos make up the family Dasypodidae.

Dada

DADA doubts everything. Dada is an armadillo. Everything is Dada, too. Beware of Dada. Anti-dadaism is a disease: selfkleptomania, man's normal condition, is DADA. But the real dadas are against DADA.
Tristan Tzara (1896-1963), Rumanian-born French Dadaist. "Dada Manifesto on Feeble Love and Bitter Love," sct. 7 (first published in La Vie des Lettres, no. 4, Paris, 1921; repr. in The Dada Painters and Poets, ed. by Robert Motherwell, 1951).

• While digging, an Armadillo can hold its breath for up to six minutes.
• An armadillo can walk under water.

• 604 track _Atomic Armadillo (The Fluffening)_ MP3 by Green Nuns Of The Revolution off of _Rock Bitch Mafia_ 12"x3 on Flying Rhino (1997)

• sample: "They have no word for Fluffy!" - Edmund Blackadder III
• release _The Armadillo_ by Mali Rain on Third Stone (1998)
• blues grunge track _Armadillo_ MP3 by Tummler off of _Queen To Bishop IV_ on Man's Ruin (2000)
• video (mpg)(29megs) for track _Rock The Casbah_ MP3 by The Clash features an armadillo

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