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Description
Common Name: Nine-Banded Armadillo
Common Name Synonyms: Long-nosed Armadillo, Poor Man's Pig, Dasypod
Scientific Name: Dasypus novemcinctus
Size: 40-60cm from head to tail-base + 25-55cm long tail = 65-115cm from head to tail. 20-30cm tall in the top of its armor.
Classification: Xenarthran
Habitat: Jungles, Deserts, Forests, Swamps, Grasslands
Diet: Insectivorous, diet consisted of fruits, funguses, seeds, mushrooms, beetles, snails, ants, termites, small reptiles, and amphibians, small mammals, eggs, and carrion
Description: Armadillos are the ankylosaurs of mammals, but they don't have horns and tail-balls. Doedicurus was the big armadillo was the only mammal with a tail ball. They are more closely related to anteaters and sloths, rather than pangolins. The nine-banded armadillo was the most famous of all armadillos that lived today, and they lived from Brazil to Southwest-Central USA, thanks for their defence was rolling themselves up into a ball, as they hide themselves from predators, like pumas, maned foxes, American golden jackals(or coyotes), black bears, red wolves, spotted panthers, alligators, bobcats, and big birds of prey. The dasypods are not-so-aggressive, and solitary mammals, that are nocturnal which they stay up all night. Males have bigger territories but theirs are overlapped, and they coincide their ranges of several females. Did you know that baby armadillos are called, puppies?

Art (C) Shawn Brunner ,aka Patchi1995

Description
Common Name: Nine-Banded Armadillo
Common Name Synonyms: Long-nosed Armadillo, Poor Man's Pig, Dasypod
Scientific Name: Dasypus novemcinctus
Size: 40-60cm from head to tail-base + 25-55cm long tail = 65-115cm from head to tail. 20-30cm tall in the top of its armor.
Classification: Xenarthran
Habitat: Jungles, Deserts, Forests, Swamps, Grasslands
Diet: Insectivorous, diet consisted of fruits, funguses, seeds, mushrooms, beetles, snails, ants, termites, small reptiles, and amphibians, small mammals, eggs, and carrion
Description: Armadillos are the ankylosaurs of mammals, but they don't have horns and tail-balls. Doedicurus was the big armadillo was the only mammal with a tail ball. They are more closely related to anteaters and sloths, rather than pangolins. The nine-banded armadillo was the most famous of all armadillos that lived today, and they lived from Brazil to Southwest-Central USA, thanks for their defence was rolling themselves up into a ball, as they hide themselves from predators, like pumas, maned foxes, American golden jackals(or coyotes), black bears, red wolves, spotted panthers, alligators, bobcats, and big birds of prey. The dasypods are not-so-aggressive, and solitary mammals, that are nocturnal which they stay up all night. Males have bigger territories but theirs are overlapped, and they coincide their ranges of several females. Did you know that baby armadillos are called, puppies?

Art (C) Shawn Brunner ,aka Patchi1995