Word: armadillo
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...sized opening in a low embankment. After piling dried leaves and twigs in front of the burrow, he digs out a box of matches and sets the kindling alight, producing a thick cloud of white smoke. If the pangolin, a scaly anteater that looks like a cross between an armadillo and an opossum, isn't smoked out of its lair soon, Jema'ah (who like most Indonesians goes by one name) will set off again through the forest, clutching a shopping list of animals that he has been instructed to seek out by a dealer in illegal wildlife from...
...Scales of the armadillo-like PANGOLIN, found in Southeast Asia, purportedly reduce swelling. Pangolin meat is also considered a nutritious treat...
Bazooka Tooth, the star of Aesop Rock’s fifth album, embodies modern humanity’s dark side with mechanical precision. He’s a cyborg with “diamond-cutter spine” and “armadillo armor that bends around the blades,” an arrogant pimp who rocks Timbs and spits “low-life game...
...explore caves and hunt for bugs. Brookfield Zoo, outside Chicago, will open its play zoo this week, offering children (for a $2 fee; $4 for adults) the chance to dress up as lemurs as they swing alongside real ones, or build a house made of sticks for an armadillo. The Dallas zoo opened a similar hands-on facility last year that includes a nature exchange where kids can swap their favorite rock for a snazzier sea shell. Seattle has plans for its play zoo, called Discovery Village, to open...
...Cameroon). Tenda Brasil, another stage, is a showcase for up-and-coming young Brazilian acts as well as a few established masters. And finally, there's the main stage, Palco Munda, a huge white tent that looks like a daisy gone to seed or the back of an albino armadillo or a punk rocker with spiky bleached-blank hair. The front of the tent is cut off and the stage is open to an enormous field which is about half full of people. The crowd is mostly young - teens, twentysomethings and thirtysomethings - though the first day is unofficially billed...