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Interesting that it is called specifically that: nine-banded armadillo.
Is this still another example of that 'nine' thing?
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Maybe they call it a nine-banded armadillo because, unlike the rarer three- and six-banded armadillos, it has nine bands.
Just a guess.
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Are there really three- and six-banded armadillos? I must go check. The nine-banded armadillo really is interesting to behold. It reminds me of those types of tin cans that have circular indentations or bands. Do we call them 'banded tin cans,' I wonder? Thank you, Faldage. I just looked up the three and the six, and you weren't pulling my leg!Here's a link to a drawing: http://liesl.sharecom.ca/bewick/quadrupeds/9039214.html
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and you weren't pulling my leg!
Springing to the defence of my fellow fool, I must point out that the truth quotient has no bearing on the limb-laughter :)
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You two are such drolly fellows.
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in the US, armadillo's are animal hosts for the bacteria that causes Hanson's disease.
(not that there has been a case in US for some time.. last hospital for treatment of same, (in carreville miss.), closed in the late 1960's.)
hanson's disease is more commonly known as leporsy
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