Armadillos eat a wide variety of different foods, ranging from insects to plants. Most armadillos eat small invertebrates like ants, beetles, and grubs.
Many of them also eat bits of flesh from dead animals when they can find them. Because small bugs and soft plants are not too difficult to chew, armadillos do not have very complicated teeth. They have lost all but their molars over time, and the teeth that remain are peg-shaped.
Armadillo teeth do not have the hard white enamel coating that protects the teeth of other mammals. Many species of armadillo are endangered or threatened. Human encroachment, slash-and-burn farming, hunting, and deaths due to domestic dogs account for a large percentage of the problem.
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Cold weather will eventually stop the spread of the armadillo, as they cannot tolerate even relatively short periods of extreme cold — they do not have large fat reserves to help insulate their bodies.
Why does this page even exist? In a world that is losing its biodiversity at an alarming rate, every animal should be taken seriously, not just as a part of the world we share but as a reservoir of genetic information that could be invaluable in the future.
However, all of these animals represent only one species of armadillo, the nine-banded armadillo Dasypus novemcinctus. This is only one of about twenty kinds of armadillo, and several of the others are endangered. The pink fairy armadillo Chlamyphoras truncatus is restricted to several small arid regions of South America, and the giant armadillo Priodontes maximus has been hunted extensively both as a food source and as an agricultural pest.
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