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Armadillos are Delightful Creatures indeed!
Life is always mesmerizing… newborn armadillo #natureisamazing
.p.s: I owe my life to armadillos, they helped developed a cure for a tropical disease that almost killed me #grateful
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Baby armadillo.
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My favorite part about 1931 Dracula is that there are armadillos running around Dracula’s castle.
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Apparently in the 20s and 30s, armadillos weren’t very commonly known, so moviemakers would use them wherever they needed some creepy, ‘demonic’ animal running around. So there were a lot of armadillos in early filmmaking, and it was often people’s only source of reference for armadillos.
Fast forward twenty years to when the father of the biology professor who told me this is driving out from the east coast to see his son in California. Crossing the southwest at night.
An armadillo runs across the road.
He comes to a screeching halt and the Thing Of Evil, which he never knew was actually a real animal, trots the rest of the way across the road and vanishes into the desert.
Apparently it shook him up rather a bit.
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Cutest little vector for leprosy ever!
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What’s crazy is - their range has increased northward into Kansas!
I’ve seen live ones, including one that I think was a baby near Wichita, and I’ve seen a couple road kills in Kansas City.
They definitely did not live around here when I was a kid.
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They’ve got a bit of a creepy isopod vibe going for them, not sure if the cuteness overcomes that or not
And of course there’s the leprosy
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This image is too fun to not share but I so rarely get the excuse.
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