Are they edible?
Posted on 06/18/2004 5:47:54 AM PDT by Broker
Motorists in Northeast Atlanta greeted the arrival of "Bob" the Armadillo this morning. This migratory member of the Dasypodidae family could be the first such visitor in the 285 perimeter's Platinum Triangle. Bob died on the road side, his head pointed north bound to Marietta. Rubber neckers and readers alike can ponder this development. An ever widdening range for this curious digger from the deep south.
"What in the world prompted that?"
We were camping for a few days somewhere in Central Florida. At dusk they come out by the dozens, you can hear them moving as they crawl across the dead palmettos. At first we started chasing and catching them with milk crates for fun, then decided to see what the little critters tasted like. We rolled the meat in bread crumbs and garlic and fried them up.
yep that skating was great.
Global Warming kills armadillos! lol
She hasn't been in the South long so she didn't know the correct name for the animal that she hit, which was an armadillo.
My experience with them at night leads me to believe that they don't see too well. While taking a short walk, I came up on Boone who didn't see me until the last second and then took off running (making enough noise to sound like a much larger animal) and ran right into the side of a house.
The impact was so loud that the homeowner came outside to see what made the noise.
They are faster than possums. But they seem to freak out if you chase them. My 9 yr old nephew caught one last month with a 5 gallon paint bucket. Turned the bucket upside down over it and sat on the bucket 'til my brother got there to properly dispose(shoot)of it.
Then He promptly went out in the back yard to hunt another one.
Maybe you should contact this guy...
The "Bow-lingual", developed by Japanese toy manufacturer Takara Co. Ltd, consists of a six-centimetre dog collar microphone that transmits sounds to a palm-sized console. The console uses 200 different words, including "fun", "boring" and "happy", to translate six basic dog "emotions" in real time. The system sounds viable, says Roger Mugford, a dog psychiatrist based in Surrey. "There are common elements to the speech of every dog," he said. However, he added that dog-owners should not need computers to interpret their pets' desires.
It was an extremely tough possum, 'cause he was gone in the morning. And he's never been back. (Maybe she did successfully dispatch him, and something else got the body.)
Is your coworker from South Africa or something?
The first and only live armadillo I ever saw made contact approximately .05 seconds later with the engine mounting cross member of my 1984 Trans AM at ~80mph. I remember thinking "damn, those suckers are fast" (just shot out in road). felt like hitting a cinder block.
A buddy of mine was cruising cross Texas interstate at substantial speed in his 911 Porsche at dawn in 1992. The last thing he remembered was the passing blur of black shadows on the road. Amazingly his low profile car undercut and rocketed a black angus over the car! Good old Jack Butts lived to tell that tale...
Are they edible?
No, it was too busy thrashing around after getting run over.
Move the checkpoint to E. Texas.
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