I’ve heard that’s why they are such common roadkill, they jump right up under vehicles. I’ve never lived around where they are but always struck me as a really cool critter. Kind of an armor-plated possum!
In Louisiana about 75% of them carry leprosy.
They’re cool until you learn that.
We are seeing a lot of them here in Tennessee now.
Something my TN raised girlfriend says she never saw growing up.
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When you run across one they are pretty much blind so when you spook them they start digging ... grab that tail, them lil suckers are strong!
And yes they jump, might as well say goodbye to them when you drive over them cause they will jump straight up into your undercarriage.
If you get them in your yard you will know, there will be hundreds of small holes everywhere, kinda like a hundred squirrels trying to remember where they buried their nuts.
Cute lil buggers, but their shell is not that hard, the guy was most likely hit by the ricochet from a round that went through the dillo, hit something hard and it came back. Entirely possible that it went through the dillo twice, they ain’t that tough.