Interesting that it is called specifically that: nine-banded armadillo.

Is this still another example of that 'nine' thing?

Maybe they call it a nine-banded armadillo because, unlike the rarer three- and six-banded armadillos, it has nine bands.

Just a guess.

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

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 :)

You two are such drolly fellows.

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