Sentences with phrase «banded armadillo»

In contrast, the nine - banded armadillo, more familiar to U.S. readers since it is found throughout North, Central, and South America, can be up to two feet long (not including the tail) and up to twenty - two pounds in weight.

Its brownish shell warns us that the three - banded armadillo is not bound to the skies, but to the ground.

That's about the size of an average nine - banded armadillo, but nowhere near the largest glyptodonts, which probably tipped the scales at a whopping 2 metric tons, the researchers say.

SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA — The nine - banded armadillo (Dasypus novemcinctus) has many hidden skills — it can sniff out insects buried 20 cm underground, for example, and jump more than a meter into the air when startled.

For the 2014 FWC in Brazil, FIFA has adopted the endemic Brazilian Three - banded armadillo, an endangered species, as its mascot.

Only the most generalist species remain in the smaller fragments, she added, such as the white - eared opossum (Didelphis albiventris) or the nine - banded armadillo (Dasypus novemcinctus), which are able to adapt to disturbed environments because they do not need such large areas to find food.

The dishes for food and water are just like those one might provide for a dog or cat — in fact, the food includes cat chow — but the residents here are nine - banded armadillos.

In 1970, some researchers based in Louisiana caught a few dozen nine - banded armadillos and dosed them with infectious material from a Surinami leper.

With confirmed sightings last August, nine - banded armadillos are now part of the wildlife scene in east central Illinois.