giant armadillo
South American digger
The giant armadillo is the largest living armadillo species, native to South America.
It can weigh over 70 pounds and reach five feet in length, with powerful claws used to dig burrows and tear into termite mounds.
Unlike smaller armadillos, it cannot roll into a complete ball for defense.
- burrowerOne who tunnels underground
- glyptodonExtinct armored ice-age mammal
- nocturnalActive during darkness
- mammalWarm-blooded, milk-producing animal
- pangolinScale-covered ant-eating mammal
anteater · sloth · neotropical fauna · scutes · endangered species · wildlife conservation · vertebrate · South America · South American wildlife · insectivorous · ecological niche · rainforest floor · habitat preservation · native mammals · termite mounds · placental mammals · three-toed sloth · two-toed sloth
- Ice Ageice age, mammoths, saber-tooth cat, mammoth, woolly mammoth
- megafaunaelephant, mammoth, woolly mammoth, mastodon, rhinoceros
- snouted animalsaardvark, anteater, tapir, elephant, coati
- South American animalsjaguar, capybara, llama, alpaca, piranha
- extinct megafaunawoolly mammoth, mammoth, mastodon, saber-toothed cat, saber-tooth tiger
- ice age animalswoolly mammoth, mammoth, dire wolf, saber-tooth cat, sabertooth tiger