In the animal world, some animals have strong attack ability, and some animals have perfect defenses, such as pangolins, armadillos and other animals. In South America, someone found an armadillo hiding on the side of the road, thinking that it was hot and heatstroke, so they fed water to the armadillo, and the armadillo was also enjoying, but when people did not pay attention, a cigarette escaped.
This armadillo was caught, motionless, did not show a little counterattack, saw the water after feeding, but also gulped down the water, it is indeed easy to make people think that it is hot fainting in the grass on the side of the road, but no one can imagine that this is the armadillo pretending to lose its movement, found that there is a chance to escape, and quickly slipped away from the hands of people.
The armadillo is easily captured, not because it will not escape, but when the armadillo encounters a threat, it will quickly hide its body in the sand, which is their first reaction to the defense method, as well as blocking the opening of the hole, curling up into a ball to fight the enemy, etc., only this time encountering humans, being caught by one hand, can only pretend to be controlled, paralyze humans, and finally escape.
- Can an armadillo shell resist bullets?
Armadillos also have a hard shell, which can resist the predators of lynx, wolves and other predators to a certain extent, and the back, head, outside of the legs and tail are covered with bone armor, which is a calcareous bone plate formed by skin ossification, forming a defensive circle for the armadillo.
How hard is the armadillo shell? Even can resist bullets, for example, in 2017, an armadillo broke into the home of a resident in East Texas at night in search of food, making people think that it was a thief, and the owner of the household used a 0.38 caliber revolver to shoot, but the bullet was rebounded by the armadillo shell, hitting his own jaw and injuring people. Therefore, the armadillo shell is very hard and can resist some kinds of gun bullets.
- Armadillos and pangolins are different species of animals
Among the armadillos, there are about 20 kinds of armadillos, the larger ones can reach 1.5 meters, and there are also 12 cm pink fairy armadillos, and the population is mainly distributed in the tropical forests of Central and South America.
Pangolins are covered with tile-like arrangement of scales, in the event of predators can be curled up into a ball, the average person is difficult to distinguish between pangolin species, in fact, pangolin family a total of three genera 8 species, pangolin genus 4 species, distributed in Asia; long-tailed pangolin genus 2 species, distributed in Africa; ground pangolin genus 2 species, also distributed in Africa.
Armadillos and pangolins have similar shells and nearly identical food, feeding on termites, ants, insects, etc., but they belong to different species of animals, pangolins belong to the order Scaly, and armadillos belong to the family Of Armadillos, the two have no blood relation, and they are hardly related.
- The relationship between armadillos and humans
Armadillos are also a very dangerous animal, because armadillos are the only animals other than humans that carry leprosy, in 2011, a US research institute showed that humans may be infected with leprosy through armadillos, and the first leper in the United States is likely to be infected by armadillos. If you encounter an animal such as an armadillo, it is not recommended to touch it directly with your hands, let alone eat this wild animal, otherwise it is easy to be infected.
Armadillos look dangerous, but humans also do great harm to their populations, the biggest natural enemy of the armadillo population is people and vehicles, many armadillos are active on the road, killed by passing vehicles, on the one hand, armadillos are myopic, plus armadillos are frightened, armadillos jump upwards, easy to crash under the tires of vehicles, so that armadillos have a great mortality rate, and now armadillos are also listed as an endangered species.
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