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A woman I work with (in NW Florida) came in, nearly in tears from her drive to work. When asked what the problem was she sobbed: "I ran over an aardvark on highway 231 and killed it!"

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.