Armadillo
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ARMADILLO, the Spanish designation for the small mail-clad Central and South American mammals of the order Edentata, constituting the family Dasypodidae.
Armadillo Armor: The armor is formed by plates of dermal bone covered in small, overlapping, epidermal scales called "scutes".
Armadillos are small placental mammals, known for having a leathery armor shell. The Dasypodidae are the only surviving family in the order Cingulata, part of the superorder Xenarthra along with the anteaters and sloths.
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NINE BANDED ARMADILLO
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The Fairy Armadillo has a flat piece of armor on its rear end. When scared, the armadillo buries into the ground, until only that armored rear end is showing. This blocks predators from entering the burrow, and it keeps the armadillo safe.
Armadillo
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(är´´mdl´), New World armored mammal of the order Edentata, a group that also includes the sloth and the anteater, characterized by peglike teeth without roots or enamel.
Armadillo Lizard
Genus: Cordylus
Species: cataphractus
The nostrils of the Armadillo Lizard are formed into little tubes. The tubes help the Armadillo Lizards smell for food or predators.
Armadillo are timid, armored mammals that live in warm grasslands and forests from South America up to the southern United States. Armadillos are burrowers who dig underground dens. Armadillos can jump 3 ft (1 m) straight up into the air.
Armadillos, sloths and anteaters are mammals.
Evolution:
Xenarthra are an ancient group of placental mammals that once roamed across Gondwanaland before the continents of the southern hemisphere separated into their present-day configuration.
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Type: Mammal Diet: Omnivore Average life span in captivity: 12 to 15 years Size: 5 to 59 in (13 to 150 cm) Weight: 3 oz to 120 lbs (85 g to 54 kg) Protection status: Threatened Did ...
Nine-banded Armadillo
Dasypus novemcinctus mexicanus Peters
Description: The nine-banded armadillo is a highly specialized mammal. It can be distinguished from other Kansas mammals by: 1) oval brownish body and long tapering tail which are ...
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Boundaries
Animals use equipment, instinct, and intuition to set protective boundaries. Skunks use aroma "therapy," porcupines armor themselves with quills, and many creatures have hard shells.
Armadillo: Dasypus novemcinctus
Appearance:
The nine-banded armadillo (Dasypus novemcinctus), named for the nine breaks in the creature's leathery armor that allow it to flex its stiff hide, is an odd-looking mammal about the size of a cat.
Armadillos are very interesting creatures. They look like mini tanks with their body armor that protects them from predators.
Armadillos are the only mammals to have external bony plates.
The armadillo is the only animal that can carry and spread leprosy. Humans can too.
The armadillo is the state animal of Texas.
Armadillos are prolific diggers. Many species use their sharp claws to dig for food, such as grubs, and to dig dens. The Nine-banded Armadillo prefers to build burrows in moist soil near the creeks, streams, and arroyos near which it lives and feeds.
Armadillos are covered by hard leathery skin and 7-11 ossified dermal plates on back, tail, head, and sides, and tough skin on the ears. The bands are connected by soft tissue.
Armadillos are fond of water; where climatic conditions tend to be arid, the animals concentrate in the vicinity of streams and water holes.
Armadillos generally spend the day sleeping in the safety of burrows. They may have as many as twelve burrows located throughout their range, which they dig with their strong front claws, kicking away the excavated dirt with their hind legs.
Armadillos breed in July or August. Each litter is composed of identical quadruplets, the result of a single egg splitting. All are either male or female. Litters are usually born in March or April.
Armadillos, sloths, and anteaters once belonged to the order Edentata, which means 'toothless' in Latin. Although all modern members of this order lack incisors and canines, the designation was a misnomer-only anteaters have no teeth.
Armadillos eat insects and worms, which they find by digging in the ground with their sharp claws. The bony plates on their back help defend them from predators, especially when they roll into a tight ball to protect their softer body parts.
The armadillo eats insects and other invertebrates. They are skilled at digging for grubs and occasionally eat berries and bird eggs.
The armadillo has a keen sense of smell that it uses to locate prey. Most of its diet is made up of insects, grubs and worms. It will sometimes eat fruit, small reptiles and amphibians and bird eggs.
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The Armadillo in the next 4 shots was near Mission, Hidalgo Co., Texas, in April, 2008. These shots were taken with a Canon EOS 1D Mark III and EF 300mm F/4 L IS lens.
Giant armadillos are found in South America, east of the Andes, from northwestern Venezuela to northeastern Argentina.
HABITAT:
Giant armadillos live in burrows near water in grassland, brushland, woodland and forest habitats.
Young armadillos are almost always produced from one fertilized egg and so are identical twins genetically. The female armadillo gives birth to four young each pregnancy.
Armadillos are remarkable in being the only other animals which can suffer from leprosy, which occurs in the wild populations. They do not show symptoms until they are near death.
Nine-banded Armadillo
(Dasypus novemcinctus)
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The Nine-banded Armadillo has leathery skin with hardened plates on the back and sides that overlap. The plates form overlapping bands.
Like many other armadillos, it is believed to feed mainly on termites, but it may also eat other invertebrates and fruit.
Behavior:
It obtains its insect prey by probing into the ground, under bark, and into nests with its powerful forelegs and claws.
The largest of the armadillos, it can grow up to 1.5 m (5 ft.) in length including the tail, and weigh an average of 25 kg (58 lb.).
Giant Armadillo (Priodontes maximus)
The giant armadillo is classified as a member of the order Edentata (Edentates) and is a member of the family Dasypodidae.
ARMADILLO
An armadillo is a small, burrowing, armored mammal.
DOEDICURUS
Doedicurus (family Glyptodontidae) was an ancient armadillo with a tail mace. It lived during the Ice Ages.
Armadillo Lizard Armadillo Lizard - Cordylus cataphractus
Common Sungazer - Common Sungazer - Cordylus cordylus
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In armadillos and some reptiles, an external bony or horny plate. Often called a "scale," although technically the term "scale" also includes other sorts of thin, flakey layers (such as the scaly skin on bird legs).
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Anteaters, armadillos, and sloths are a group of eutherian mammals known as the Xenarthra. They were once placed in the order Edentata and are still often referred to as edentates, a word that means "toothless.
A 3-banded armadillo infant, who made his media debut on March 3, is finally on exhibit with his mother. A number of black-tailed prairie dogs have been born within the past six weeks and can be seen sporadically on exhibit.
Carnivore. Armadillos, fish, reptiles, caimans, monkeys, deer, cattle and horses.
Predators and Threats
Humans.
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INSECTIVORA
hedgehogs, tenrecs, shrews, & moles
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Nine-banded Armadillo
Order: Xenarthra
Family: Dasypodidae
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Order Cingulata (armadillos)
Order Pilosa (sloths and anteaters)
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In Florida, Florida panthers commonly prey on feral pigs (Sus scrofa), raccoons (Procyon lotor), and nine-banded armadillos (Dasypus novemcinctus) in addition to white-tailed deer [16,32,34].
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Their diet includes rodents, peccaries, deer, birds, fish, armadillos, turtles, crocodiles, capybaras, deer, and tapirs. In the trees they prey on birds and monkeys, and will feed on turtles and fish in the rivers.
Also known to eat feral hog, rabbit, raccoon, armadillo and birds. When people who live near panthers leave their pets and small livestock out in the open at night, panthers have been known to take these animals opportunistically.
Included in the Vault are images of: Armadillos, Giant Anteater (Myrmecophaga tridactyla), Giant Pangolin (Manis gigantea), Platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus), Sloths ...
Their food sources include, but are not limited to, small rodents, rabbits, deer, elk, moose, antelope, cattle, hogs, skunk, javelina, armadillo, opossum, birds, crustaceans, insects, lizards, prickly pear cactus, fruits, and grasses.
Jaguar diets vary across its range but the animal's natural prey includes peccaries, large rodents (paca, agouti, capybara), armadillos, and deer. The jaguar's massive head and muscular jaw provide its extraordinary biting power.
The warm-blooded-ness is not always interconnected with a constantly high body-temperature: As well as sewers, flutter, decay and armadillos, anteaters, insectivores, semi-monkeys and Klippschliefer alter Z her/its/their body-temperature. T.
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Vogel, B.R. 1970. Taxonomy and morphology of the sternalis and falcifera groups of Pardosa (Araneida: Lycosidae). Armadillo Papers 3:1-31.
Kaston, B.J. 1978. How to know the spiders, 3rd Ed., 272pp.
Retia mirabilia are blood vessels that are found in dolphins, whales, dugongs, and manatees, as well as in non-marine mammals such as armadillos, anteaters and some rodents. The name translates literally to mean "wonderful net".
Burrowing Owl is an owl of dry, open habitats such as cerrado and savannah while it is often found in cities, golf courses and other similar areas. It nests in the ground usually in a burrow excavated by another animal such as a skunk or armadillo.
Males establish a home range of up to 400 square miles and females about 50 to 100 square miles. While white-tailed deer are the most common prey of Florida panthers, they also hunt wild hogs, rabbits, raccoons, armadillos, and birds.
 See also: Manatee, Shrew, Gopher, Chipmunk, Shell
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