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Nine-banded armadillo

Dasypus novemcinctus

Photo by auntnance123
Published on Project Noah
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Field Notes

Description:

young animal: body length less than 12 inches

Habitat:

spotted in roadside underbrush

Reference Links:

Armadillo

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Comments (1)
alicelongmartin
Nice picture. When I was walking the other day, I saw a large one killed on the road. A Black Vulture was trying to clean him up, but traffic was bad. So I finally dragged him by his tail off the road so we wouldn't have a dead Vulture too.
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PublishedJune 30, 2011

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