Armadillos

No, they have excellent hearing but poor eyesight.

They will eat lettuce and other fruits, although their natural diet is grubs, worms, and ants.

10 to 15 years

Yes

approximately 5" in an erect adult male armadillo.

The armadillo is a mammal, and all mammals belong to the taxonomic domain of Eukarya.Eukarya covers all organisms in the Kingdom Animalia, as well as the Kingdoms Plantae, Fungi and Protista.

Because of over hunting and closed habitats.

Armadillos have little body fat or hair that act as insulators against cold temperatures. Also, the armadillo does not hibernate. It must live in warm temperatures to survive.

They eat other critters.

Armadillos have a very low natural body temperate so they need to live where it is warm. They prefer to live in areas where it is consistently at least 75 degrees but the warmer the better for them.

Charango - similar to a small guitar.

It helps it find it's food.They also use it to help find a mate. Armadillos have poor eyesight, so they rely on their nose to warn them of danger. It helps them find their way around places. Imagine if you didn't have eyes. You'd probably use your nose more often, right?

No they don't hibernate they migrate, because the way they live there body tempature is so low that way they live in such warm areas.

Armadillos are usually faster than humans; especially fat ones like me. Unfortunately, they have such poor eyesight that they tend to run into obstacles once they have built up a head of steam.

In 1989, around 11:30 at night, I pulled my '82 LeBaron "Ol' Yeller" over on a bridge and proceeded to try and catch an armadillo using a puffy coat...(it can be cold in the fall, even in East Texas.) The armadillo was just casually walking...minding its own business...until it saw me in the street light...freaked out...and ran away at a rate of say 10 to 15 miles per hour...(top speed is "supposedly" 30 mph according to a decent internet site I found on armadillos...and "yes", thirty miles per hour would be incredibly fast in my world!)

Once the armadillo took off...it immediately ran into oncoming traffic, where a small Jap truck ran over it ("yes"...the wheel of the truck bounced on and over the bugger). The animal then did a back flip or something and started to run in huge ten foot circles like a maniac.

It was now easy pickins' for me.

I stepped in front of it and scooped him into my jacket. Its shell was pink with scuffed bloody marks...but it had done its job...the armadillo would survive despite being run over by a mini-truck.

I was not so lucky.

Within three months, I had lost four fingers and seven of my toes due to armadillo transmitted leprosy. (Of course, that is an urban legend...and also a lie.)

What really happened is...

I brought the animal home to my servant who lives in the shack behind my plantation home. She killed it, gutted it, carved it up and sold it as pufferfish steaks to a local Brookshire's grocery-store deli located out near Lake O' the Pines. (They recently hired some hot shot Vietnamese butcher/sushi expert who thinks he knows everything about raw fish, including the notorious puffer.)

Boy, did my old working-girl fool him with our newly processed armadillo meat.

Anyway, I took my 85% cut of the profits...in addition to promising my old servant woman not to get rid of her/our/my learning disabled grandson who lives with her. (He does this really kooky dancin' thing when he walks, so I kinda enjoy having him around.......though I just wish he would stay out of the pig sty. (Some of that stuff he does in there just ain't natural.)

Anyway back to the question. Armadillos can take off really fast... reach 10-15 miles per hour very quickly and supposedly can max out around 30 miles per hour, thereby causing them to sometimes run into crap and knocking themselves plum silly.

they sleep in a ball! =>

trees

Up to 20lbs

The largest armadillo, The Giant Armadillo, can weigh up to 130lbs.

The woodchuck is larger than the American nine banded armadillo.

The life expectancy of the Giant Armadillo is approximately 12-15 years

Depending on the species, an armadillo may weigh from a few ounces (pink fairy armadillo) to well over 100 pounds for a giant armadillo. Both are South American species.

The body of the female releases pheromones when she is disposed to mate. The males smell these and are attracted to search out the origin of the odor and then mates with her.

Armadillos are found in the warmer, humid regions of South, Central and North America.

More than 90% of the armadillo's diet is made up of insects and their larvae. Armadillos also feed on earthworms, scorpions, spiders, and other invertebrates. There is evidence that the species will eat some fruit and vegetable matter such as berries and tender roots in leaf mold, as well as maggots and pupae in carrion. Armadillos eat vertebrates to a lesser extent, including skinks, lizards, small frogs, and snakes, as well as the eggs of these animals.

Armadillos have few wild predators, but coyotes, dogs, black bears, bobcats, cougars, foxes and raccoons are reported to catch and kill armadillos in places where these predators occur. Hawks, owls and feral pigs may prey on armadillo young.

born with there eyes open