Word: armadillo
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...called "Game-Eating Adventures," beginning with the hump-backed whale luncheon given by Professor Henry Fairfield Osborn and Explorer Roy Chapman Andrews at the American Museum of Natural History (Manhattan), and running a terrific, far-flung menu of elephant, loggerhead turtle, capybara (large South American rodent), howling-monkey, armadillo, iguana (lizard), Orinoco crocodile, diamond-back rattlesnake, stewed octopus, argus pheasant and muntjac ("barking-deer") in Borneo, sambar and gaur (deer) and manis (scaly anteater) in India...
...devoured elephant, hump-backed whale, howling-monkey, armadillo, crocodile, rattlesnake, octopus...
Glyptotherium, a fossil giant armadillo, recovered from the Pliocene deposits of southern Arizona by Dr. J. W. Gidley, of the United States National Museum, has been brought to Washington and mounted. He is seven feet eight inches long, stands three feet high, and his shell weighs half a ton. Modern armadillos rarely exceed two feet in length...