As its name suggests, the Chacoan naked-tailed armadillo is found in the Gran Chaco region of western Paraguay and north-central Argentina . typically inhabiting open thorn forest and scrub.
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The thorn forest includes an area of the coastal plains in the western part of the state as well as an area dominated by mesquite within the tropical deciduous forest.
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Colonel Blashford-Snell's last trip, in October, was a reconnaissance for a three-month expedition through the little-known Paraguayan Gran Chaco, an area of inhospitable thorn forest where some of the Indian tribes have never had contact with the outside world.
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Specifically, the forest vegetation types identified in the sanctuary are : dry deciduous scrub, salvadora scrub, desert thorn forest, babul " Acacia nilotica " forests, tropical " Euphorbia " scrub, dry savannah type vegetation, " Salvadora " association, gorad ( " Senegalia senegal " ), " Zizyphus " scrub and " Capparis " association.
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A descriptive passage in American novelist and MacArthur Fellow Cormac McCarthy's 1985 anti-Western " Blood Meridian " likens cactus embers to holothurians : " In the thorn forest through which they'd passed the little desert wolves yapped and on the dry plain before them others answered and the wind fanned the coals that he watched.
