I saw an armadillo at the zoo today.  I wonder if they make good pets.  It was cute!
Ah, yes, armadillos, the new world placental mammal! I wouldn't imagine they'd make too good of pets, haha
I don't live in a warm climate so I had never seen one before.  The zoo had it indoors.
Oh, I see. What color was he? The word armadillo means "little armoured one" Isn't that so cute
I love that name origin!  The one I saw was gray.
-rabbit": "āyōtl" (turtle) and "tōchtli" (rabbit). The Portuguese word for "armadillo" is "tatu" which derives from the Tupi language. Similar names are also found in other, especially European, languages.
Classification.
Family Dasypodidae
- Subfamily Dasypodinae
- Genus "Dasypus"
- Nine-banded armadillo or long-nosed armadillo, "Dasypus novemcinctus"
- Seven-banded armadillo, "Dasypus septemcinctus"
- Southern long-nosed armadillo,
haunts, and war dances.
Charles Villiers later recalled:
When that film was screened in Sydney I met a movie fan who I knew very well. He had seen the picture; and I asked – him what he thought of it. 'Oh, not bad,' he replied, 'but the make-up of the Johnnies who did the niggers was not too good – it wouldn't deceive an Australian.' Subsequently we did another picture in which a few aborigines figured, and this time,