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Material Type: | Government publication, State or province government publication |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Larry Lane Smith; Robin W Doughty |
ISBN: | 0292703759 9780292703759 029270383X 9780292703834 |
OCLC Number: | 10751658 |
Description: | xi, 134 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
Contents: | Introduction -- The natural history of armadillos -- Distribution and dispersal in the south -- Human use of the armadillo -- The armadillo in popular culture -- Armadillos forever -- Appendix -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Maps. |
Responsibility: | by Larry L. Smith and Robin W. Doughty. |
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Abstract:
Perhaps no creature has so fired the imagination of a populace as the armadillo - that most ungainly, awkward, and timid little animal. This book traces the spread of the nine-banded armadillo from its first notice in South Texas late in the 1840s to its current range east to Florida and north to Missouri.
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