On our planet, there are so many wonderful and interesting creatures with an unusual appearance.These little animals here is a fun and a battleship.The animal lives on the ground for about 55 million years.The ancient specimens had larger dimensions than modern armadillos, their weight reaches several tons, and the length of the body - about 2.5 meters, these creatures can be compared with the behemoths.As before, the animals live today in South America and southern North America.
At home battleships called Armadillo, which means "bearing the armor" or even pocket dinosaurs.And blame robust shell that covers the tail, back, and sides of the head of the animal.The family includes about 20 species and belongs to the order edentates, though most of those teeth are not so little - from 20 to 65. The armor of bony plates and bands dressed battleship.Photos of these creatures cause tenderness and a smile, despite their clumsiness, they run pretty fast, hiding from persecution.
In the villages of Mexico, Brazil, Bolivia and Argentina very often you can see a picture of how the boys play football heavy ball.When the game ends, this is the tangle of turns and runs away - this is ironclad.An animal in a few seconds is able to roll up into a ball, which reveal not so simple.Another way to escape from persecution - to bury it in the ground.Long claws on front paws help you quickly pull holes, torn tree trunks, anthills and termite mounds to break, not to mention the burying in sand or loose soil.
Today there is not so much an armadillo.Local people honestly believe that the very strong magical properties has battleship.The animal is caught, to kill and make his bones and shell charms.Meat is also very useful and tasty, so hunters him enough.On a flat surface Armadillo very difficult to get away from humans and dogs, but once they reach the thicket, the next is already possible not to prosecute: durable armor allowing confidence to wade through thorns and tangled branches.
Carapace protects only the upper part of the body, but the belly completely exposed, it is only the coarse hairs.Fold into a ball can only be two types: the Brazilian and laplatsky battleship.The animal thus hides his thin-skinned body.But devyatipoyasny view and other such powers do not possess.Armadillo mostly nocturnal: they hide during the day and sleep at night out on the hunt.His teeth are very weak, so armadillos feed on insects, berries, snakes, snails, worms and other invertebrates.The food is not chewed in the mouth and in the stomach, where there are sharp spikes.
helpless and without protective armor born animal armadillo.Photography gives kids an idea of how easy prey they yaylyayutsya in the first days after birth.After a couple of weeks, there is a hard shell.Of great interest to geneticists and psychologists are devyatipoyasnye armadillo, because they are always the same sex twins are born.Placing animals in different habitat conditions, the researchers observed the impact on the environment has substantially the same genes.
