-Contrary to popular belief, the nine-banded armadillo cannot roll itself into a ball to escape predators; only one of the twenty-odd varieties of armadillos (three-banded) is able to roll up. The other types are covered with too many bony plates to allow them to curl.
-Armadillos always give birth to four identical young and are the only mammal known to do so.
-All four young develop from the same egg and share the same placenta.
-Female armadillos can delay implantation of the fertilized egg during times of stress.
-Armadillos like to swim, and are very good at it. When they need to float, they gulp air into their intestines to make them more buoyant.-Like most insect eating mammals, armadillos have a very long, sticky tongue to slurp up bugs as quickly as possible.
-Armadillos have a very low metabolic rate, which means they don't waste a lot of energy producing heat.
-Baby armadillos have soft shells, like human fingernails. They get harder as the animal grows, depositing bone under the skin to make a solid shell.
Information thanks of Armadillo Central
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