The armadillo is one of my favorite animals, the name itself actually means "little armoured one" in Spanish!
I have never seen an armadillo. Don't know much about them. What do they eat?
I do not actually, do you? I only know that there are over 21 extant species of armadillo, so there are different kinds.
Oh wow. Where do you normally find armadillos at ?
Armadillos are a native South American mammal, it falls under one of South America's three distinct groups of terrestrial mammals.
I've never been to South America, so that is most likely why I've not seen one. I wonder if they have any in the zoos here in the United States.
world; as the fragments of Gondwana continued to separate, this connection was lost, leaving South America an island continent. Caviomorph rodents and monkeys arrived as "waif dispersers" by rafting across the Atlantic from Africa in the Eocene epoch, 35 million or more years ago. All the remaining nonflying mammals of South America are recent arrivals, having migrated from North America via Central America during the past seven million years as part of the Great American Interchange; this invasion, which peaked around three million years ago, was made possible
leathery armour shell and long sharp claws for digging. They have short legs, but can move quite quickly. The average length of an armadillo is about , including tail. The giant armadillo grows up to and weighs up to , while the pink fairy armadillo has a length of only . When threatened by a predator, Tolypeutes species frequently roll up into a ball.
Etymology.
The word "armadillo" means "little armoured one" in Spanish. The Aztecs called them "āyōtōchtli" , Nahuatl for "turtle