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Amazing Armadillos
Check out these facts that makes armadillos simply amazing!
Armadillos have four babies at a time, always all the same sex. They are perfect quadruplets, the fertilized cell split into quarters, resulting in four identical armadillos.
Armadillos are crunchy on the outside, soft on the inside.
Armadillos get an average of 18.5 hours of sleep per day (just like me).
Armadillos can walk underwater.
Armadillos are the only animal besides humans that can get leprosy.
If disconnected, the sex organs of an armadillo are still active.
Most armadillos seen dead on the road did not get hit by the wheels.
When an armadillo is frightened it jumps straight into the air.
Armadillos can be housebroken.
Armadillos have a very low need of oxygen. Even when burrowing they can stop breathing for 6 minutes by storing air in the trachea and wide bronchus.
The regulation of the body temperature of about 32°C is a big problem. Armadillos don't survive long periods of frost, except the fairy armadillo that lives in Patagonia and hibernates.
The three-banded armadillo hardly digs a burrow; it protects itself by rolling up like a hedgehog. The only opening is covered by the shields of the head and the tail, so that even a dog can't open this ball. As the body fat would disturb while rolling up, the fat moved to the dorsal part of the animal during evolution.
No armadillos have ever been reported to have been abducted by aliens.
The name "Armadillo" comes from the Spanish explorers word meaning "Little Armored Thing"
There are over 50 million armadillos in the US
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