Armadillos can jump up to 4 feet in the air...........................
"Texas speed bump"
They say that's one reason why so many are road kill. If they didn't jump into the air, a number of them would just have a vehicle pass over them.
But when they jump in the air, which is their normal reaction to being surprised, they're guaranteed to have the vehicle hit them.
>>Armadillos can jump up to 4 feet in the air...........................
I saw a nature video once of a bobcat going after an armadillo. It jumped right as the bobcat was pouncing, so it pounced on thin air, really stupefied as to what had just happened. Armadillo takes advantage of the moment of confusion by the bobcat, and scurries into his burrow.
But thousands of years of evolution have played a cruel trick on the armadillo. This “jump when a predator attacks” defensive instinct, that works great when your attacker is something like a bobcat, isn’t so great when your attacker is a Ford, a Chevy, or a Toyota.
Hence all the armadillo carcasses by the side of the road.
“Armadillos can jump up to 4 feet in the air...........................”
Especially when spotlighted at night and hit with a shotgun blast.