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A traditional charango made of armadillo, today superseded by wooden charangos, in Museu de la Música de Barcelona. Armadillo shells have traditionally been used to make the back of the charango, an Andean lute instrument. In certain parts of Central and South America, armadillo meat is eaten; it is a popular ingredient in Oaxaca, Mexico.
The giant armadillo is the largest living species of armadillo, with 11 to 13 hinged bands protecting the body and a further three or four on the neck. [6] Its body is dark brown in color, with a lighter, yellowish band running along the sides, and a pale, yellow-white head.
The nine-banded armadillo has been rapidly expanding its range both north and east within the United States, where it is the only regularly occurring species of armadillo. The armadillo crossed the Rio Grande from Mexico in the late 19th century, and was introduced in Florida at about the same time by humans.
Cut marks found on giant armadillo fossils suggest the presence of early humans in what’s now Argentina more than 20,000 years ... The real reason you should use a stand mixer isn't convenience.
Glyptodonts are an extinct clade of large, heavily armoured armadillos, reaching up to 1.5 metres (4.9 ft) in height, and maximum body masses of around 2 tonnes.They had short, deep skulls, a fused vertebral column, and a large bony carapace made up of hundreds of individual scutes.
Nine-banded armadillo (Dasypus novemcinctus). Cingulata is an order of armored placental mammals.Members of this order are called cingulates, or colloquially, armadillos.They are primarily found in South America, though the northern naked-tailed armadillo is found mainly in Central America and the nine-banded armadillo has a range extending into North America.
The pink fairy armadillo (Chlamyphorus truncatus) is the smallest species of armadillo, first described by Richard Harlan in 1825. [3] This solitary, desert-adapted animal is endemic to the deserts and scrub lands of central Argentina. [4] The pink fairy armadillo is closely related to the only other fairy armadillo, the greater fairy armadillo.
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