They are showing up here in Northeast GA.
Get over here.
Armadillos are no longer plentiful in TX as they once were.
They became road kill—and these days, I hardly ever see on—dead or alive.
“We have no way to know for sure,” Andrews said.
Ab absurdo = Modern science!!!
The animal doesn’t look so bad, but that shell thingie looks like a giant locust. *JUST* the pocketbook for spring, NOT!
Why did the chicken cross the road?
To prove to the armadillo it could be done.
Regards,
Raven6
Not to worry, they are just a food source along the imigration highway........
It has always been my understanding that all armadillos are born dead by the side of the road.
Armadillos have moved northward and spread for decades now. When I was a kid, they were not common in North Texas. Yes, I am old.
As for armadillos being roadkill, there’s a biological reason why they’re often smashed. The armadillo instinctively jumps vertically when frightened. Their eyesight isn’t good, and when they see headlights closing in on them, they jump rather than run, thus putting themselves in line for a fatal collision with the front of the vehicle.
No, that doesn’t explain their propensity for crossing roads. There’s probably a lesson here about contentment, staying in the pasture where your burrow is.
There used to be a pet shop in Denver that had these from time to time.
“One” of anything does NOT a pattern make...
We’re getting them in MO now...It used to be they were confined to southern MO, but now I’ve seen dead ones within 20 miles of my home (I’m in western MO, about an hour from KC).
From yahoo search:
Armadillos are often used in the study of leprosy, since they, along with mangabey monkeys, rabbits and mice (on their footpads), are among the few known non-human animal species that can contract the disease systemically. They are particularly susceptible due to their unusually low body temperature, which is hospitable to the leprosy bacterium, Mycobacterium leprae. (The leprosy bacterium is difficult to culture and armadillos have a body temperature of 34 °C, similar to human skin.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armadillo
[May 4, 2007] Armadillos in Texas and Louisiana have been found to carry the leprosy bacteria. Nobody is quite sure why they are infected, but it’s possible that ...
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Missouri Dept of Conservation told me dillos spotted first in the early 80s in southern Mo. have been slowly migrating North ever since. (Black Bear have returned to South and some Middle Missouri parts too, more recently)
This morning I watched in disgust as three buzzards had breakfast on the armadillo my dog killed night before last. Not a pleasant way to start the day.