Hi! This video opened my eyes to the amazing qualities of the armadillo. My dad always used to say that "the only good 'dillo is a dead 'dillo," but after this I am a firm supporter of the armadillo conservation effort!
I like Jess as much as Gaia 😊, I need a nature loving partner in life,to camp,hike,explore and adventure with.. Gaia is a perfect backpack friend too to take along on those adventures 😊
HILARIOUS to me how teeny she is. I'm used to nine banded dillos in FL, they are like, four times bigger. And dig tunnels under houses, and can kinda be scary aggressive at times. Dad had to put pig wire around the house to keep dillos from digging under. Still love them tho, sad how many get hit on the road here. :[
The zoo I work at has a 3B and two 6B armadillos. Little Woody the 3B is my favourite, we take him out to classrooms and shows a lot because he's so cute and interesting, but he refuses to roll up into a ball when he's being handled; fidgets like crazy when you try!! Its quite hilarious trying to show him to little kids and try not to let them see his enormous "little Woody". It would be much easier to have a female like Gaia!! :P
Tree banded armadillos are by far my most favorite pet to own someday.. I think they're the real Armadillos. Unfortunately, since hearing about their status in the wild from poaching for the pet trade and habitat loss, kinda makes me wanna back out on owning these guys due to guilt and despair for my contribution for the pet trade. So I'll probably wait till their populations skyrocket in the wild and their habitats intact before i decide owning one..
I love armadillos. I hadn't ever seen one though until I moved to Texas more than 20 years ago. Sadly I have noticed less armadillos lately. :( I think I need to move back out to the country. - Heidi
Love armadillos and love Animal Wonders! One small thing: the Cenozoic Era is the current era we're in now. Yes, it started about 65 million years ago, and it's divided into periods and epochs (of which we're in the Holocene epoch in the Quaternary period), but "back in the Cenozoic Era" just sounded a little off. Did you mean when the Cenozoic was first starting?
I'm not completely sure I know what you're referring to, but when I'm holding her and she rises up her head and front feet it's because she wants to get on to the digging and eating bit.
AnimalWonders Montana i know what you meant when you said, "but that relationship goes way back to...the cenozoic era." but technically, we are still in the cenozoic era, which extends from the end of the cretaceous 65 million years ago, into the present.
Turning your self into a shielded sphere is an amusing evolutionary mechanism. I am curious to know what variety of consistent external earthly stimuli gave rise to such evolutionary features.
Youniverous Keep in mind I'm just guessing here, but I think it probably started as a "play dead" mechanism, much like the opossum currently has today. Then over time, since potential predators might well pick up the "dead" critter and maybe give it a bit of a gnaw, natural selection favored those who'd mutated heavier, thicker skin and the behavior became more of a "curl up and take the beating" kind of thing...and it all went from there. But like I said, I'm just shooting in the dark, here.
AlbertaGeek This type of Armadillo Tolypeutes matacus is not Fossorial, meaning it does not burrow into the ground. So I believe what you have stated to be one of the main factors due to the fact that the Armadillo would have no other way to protect itself from large predators.
Gaia is so cute! She's really opened up to you since her introduction video last year. I'm happy to see that. I was wondering, "holding her breath for 6 minutes", does that mean after a full intake of air, or even with minimal air in the body? It's just the example of her crossing a stream along the bottom of the water. Also, if you have the time, holding her by her rear plate is the correct way to hold a 3 banded armadillo? Thanks! Keep up the awesome videos! I look forward to each and every one of them!
Out of curiosity, why do you hold her the way you do in this video? You seem to mostly have your hands above/to the side, and are supporting her via the posterior plate-- is it due to the digging behavior if your hands are below her?
Auricolour Yes. I can hold her in the position where I put my hand under her feet, but after a bit she naturally wants to dig between my fingers. She's very strong and it can hurt me and make her frustrated. She's comfortable with me holding her from the top/sides so that's what I do. When I rest her on her lower back she'll hang out for awhile, but eventually tries to flex and roll herself right side up. By the end of the shoot she was so ready to explore the ground, that I let her just dig around on the ground. She had a ton of fun :)
Hi! I came across your videos while looking for more information on parrots. You guys are awesome! I have a couple of questions. What is your daily care routine for the animals like? Do you and your husband have a staff or do you take care of all of them on your own? And do you have any videos that show all of the birds? Thanks!
I've been trying for a while now to get started with a program like yours. I've been wanting to help educate the public on different animals and what not, but I am finding it very hard to get a job in that field. Over the years I have raised many different types of animals and rehabilitated wild ones to release back into the wild. I'm still young and do not have the money to get into college at the moment. I was wondering if there is any way to get a job like yours without the titles and degrees. I am already well educated with animals and have a passion for them. I just need one chance to show my skills and how well I can help others learn about the beautiful creatures around them.
Kittie Grubitsch Volunteering at your local Zoo or wildlife rehab center would be great. Other than that, you can't do much without a degree, at least by my knowledge.
ShadeSlayer1911 Sadly.. My zoo is over an hour away and we don't have any wildlife rehab close enough for me to volunteer at. If I had more money for gas I would volunteer and if it was much closer I would. It's why i would need a job with better pay. As of the moment I'm not really making enough to go an hour drive out just to volunteer.
Gaia seemed to be moved a lot in this video. Was she okay with that or were there lots of breaks between shots? Also... how do you know when armadillos are uncomfortable?
We filmed over 2 hours of footage and it was in the evening when she becomes active. It does look like I move her a lot, but during filming she never exhibited behavior that told me she was uncomfortable. Thank you for your concern though, I really do appreciate it. She was super interested in getting down and exploring though! Which made it interesting trying to get her to roll up completely. If she were upset with my handling of her, she'd most likely roll tightly into a ball.
AnimalWonders Montana Wow! That's really cool. Thank you for the reply! It's good to know that she's okay with that much movement. I bet that's handy for her ambassador work. =]
AnimalWonders Montana I really want a pet dog ur my mom is not convened she says I'm not going to walk her every day but I'm 11 and I said I will so we did a test and I had to walk a toy dog but I did it every day do you have any tips I can use????
So they are blaming leprosy on the armadillos in Florida. I don't know what is the freakiest thing about that, leaning that armadillos have leprosy or that leprosy still exists in the world.
Very interesting and informative, thank you. I have always found armadillos to be unusual and fascinating animals, ever since I saw this funny (but not terribly accurate) cartoon when I was a child: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-YCaHVornW1w.html I have to wonder, however, why the pronunciation in English is "arm-a-DILL-oh." I am an English speaker myself, so the question is purely academic, and not meant as a put-down. But most of us get that the pronunciation of tortilla, for example, is not "tor-TILL-a." Why, then, do we go on mispronouncing armadillo?
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