Armadillos: Nature's Armoured Miracles (Wildlife Documentary) | Wild America | Real Wild

Named "little armored one" by Spanish Conquistadors, the Armadillo's lizard-like skin and bony-plated shell give it a perfect defense against predators. In this episode of Wild America, Marty Stouffer takes us through exactly why this surprisingly agile swimmer and powerful digger is so special.
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[@arshitaanmolsoni4610]

The intro reminded me of something I used to see as a child. Old animation style loved it

[@eatingelizabethsfrizbee]

Mutal Omaha wild kingdom possibly? I remember watching as a kid.

[@ezehstanley5509]

Yo right

[@TitikTemu31]

Maybe superboy series

[@I_WANT_MY_SLAW]

Because it is old. It's Marty Stouffer's Wild America.

[@w.e.s.]

Aint nothing animated about it

[@AFROJOE2323]

i wish there was more documentaries on armadillo's

[@Boocake1488]

I had an armadillo chase my dog for around 20 minutes last night. The dog deserved it to be fair. This same armadillo has been visiting for years now

[@AutisticBarbie]

Nice that he visits so much ❤

[@jestubbs69]

RIP Marty! Perhaps the greatest pioneer in wildlife film making.

[@thingwhatever]

Oh no, when did he die??

[@specialops728]

@@thingwhatever He's still alive! Just googled it!

[@statekraft]

That rattlesnake looked pretty sheepish after his face just slammed into the side of a tank with no effect.

[@guardian8903]

Bro took a L

[@rossrossa7596]

LLL!

[@maxximus6418]

Bonk

[@MargaritaMagdalena]

Timestamp please.

[@user-vj7jn4vt6f]

my

[@DonaGanz]

They see me rollin' They hatin' Patrollin' and tryna catch me ridin' dirty

[@kaylae3661]

I think I’m an armadillo; clumsy, tough skinned, unbothered, ocd, always hungry and roaming life with no fear. Armadillo lives like if I die I die if I don’t well I’ll keep eating. LOL

[@RealWild]

😂Very relatable

[@probe26]

The Skunk was very upset and insulted when he got dirt kicked in his face. Very rude behavior Mr Dillow

[@yoptastic8463]

I loved watching this, I would love to see one. I live in a small coastal town on the eastern side of the .U.K although we have beautiful wildlife, I would like to see other creatures from the four corners etc, but due too severe health problems & lack of cash , I just keep watching wonderful programs like this one.

[@stephenbrand5661]

I ran into one when I was walking my 3 pugs at night a few months back and it seemed to be blinded by my flashlight so it just stood there in front of us!! We had such a bad drought back in the fall that the armadillos were coming out in the day time to look for water which is very unusual!! They're very neat animals but I've often wished that we had wild hedgehogs here like you do in the UK!

[@DeviGomez]

I see them every night. They always come on my yard and roam around. I live in South Carolina

[@suequinn8221]

I live in the US South. Unfortunately most armadillo sightings are cracked open on the side of the road😢. Once I did catch one on my doorbell camera, that was a treat to watch.

[@NombEditz]

Well I was doing a jeep suffari and I saw one eating

[@klee3282]

Marty is still alive, thank goodness, he is the best.

[@cwatson42785]

Someone posted from a year ago (before your post) that he had passed away.

[@basslover48]

That's the luckiest armadillo to get away from those gators!!

[@leskirby8478]

Didn't realize the show was going to be a hundred years old

[@wtfnoheals]

Uhhh... no? 60 soon? 1980s show came out...

[@Upper_echelon_exotics]

@@wtfnoheals How would that be 60 then? It would be around 40 years ago. Dang even that's pretty long though! It was pretty good still though. It didn't really age that badly.

[@scarymuffin6978]

This was a great documentary. What an amazing animal & show!!

[@indyreno2933]

Armadillos are the only surviving family of the order Cingulata, all twenty-two extant species comprise of the family Dasypodidae, armadillos are omnivorous, there are four extant subfamilies of armadillos, Chlamyphorinae (Fairy Armadillos), Dasypodinae (Long-Nosed Armadillos and Fossil Relatives), Tolypeutinae (Three-Banded Armadillos, Giant Armadillo, and Naked-Tailed Armadillos), and Euphractinae (Six-Banded Armadillos, Dwarf Armadillo, and Hairy Armadillos), out of all four subfamilies, Chlamyphorinae is the most basal of all the subfamilies as fairy armadillos have shorter snouts than other armadillos, which were retained from prehistoric armadillos that went extinct, while Dasypodinae is the sister group to clade containing the subfamilies Tolypeutinae and Euphractinae Taxonomy: • Family: Dasypodidae (Armadillos) •• Subfamily: Chlamyphorinae (Fairy Armadillos) ••• Genus: Calyptophractus (Greater Fairy Armadillo) •••• Species: Calyptophractus Retusus (Greater Fairy Armadillo) ••• Genus: Chlamyphorus (Pink Fairy Armadillo) •••• Species: Chlamyphorus Truncatus (Pink Fairy Armadillo) •• Subfamily: Dasypodinae (Long-Nosed Armadillos and Fossil Relatives) ••• Genus: Dasypus (Long-Nosed Armadillos) •••• Species: Dasypus Novemcinctus (Nine-Banded Armadillo) •••• Species: Dasypus Septemcinctus (Seven-Banded Armadillo) •••• Species: Dasypus Pilosus (Woolly Armadillo) •••• Species: Dasypus Hybridus (Southern Long-Nosed Armadillo) •••• Species: Dasypus Sabanicola (Northern Long-Nosed Armadillo) •••• Species: Dasypus Mazzai (Lesser Long-Nosed Armadillo) •••• Species: Dasypus Kappleri (Greater Long-Nosed Armadillo) •• Subfamily: Tolypeutinae (Three-Banded Armadillos, Giant Armadillo, and Naked-Tailed Armadillos) ••• Tribe: Tolypeutini (Three-Banded Armadillos and Fossil Relatives) •••• Genus: Tolypeutes (Three-Banded Armadillos) ••••• Species: Tolypeutes Tricinctus (Brazilian Three-Banded Armadillo) ••••• Species: Tolypeutes Matacus (La Plata Three-Banded Armadillo) ••• Tribe: Priodontini (Giant Armadillo and Naked-Tailed Armadillos) •••• Genus: Cabossous (Naked-Tailed Armadillos) ••••• Species: Cabossous Unicinctus (Southern Naked-Tailed Armadillo) ••••• Species: Cabossous Centralis (Northern Naked-Tailed Armadillo) ••••• Species: Cabossous Chacoensis (Chacoan Naked-Tailed Armadillo) ••••• Species: Cabossous Tatouay (Greater Naked-Tailed Armadillo) •••• Genus: Priodontes (Giant Armadillo) ••••• Species: Priodontes Maximus (Giant Armadillo) •• Subfamily: Euphractinae (Six-Banded Armadillos, Dwarf Armadillo, and Hairy Armadillos) ••• Tribe: Euphractini (Six-Banded Armadillos and Fossil Relatives) •••• Genus: Euphractus (Six-Banded Armadillos) ••••• Species: Euphractus Sexcinctus (Northern Six-Banded Armadillo) ••••• Species: Euphractus Tucumanus (Southern Six-Banded Armadillo) ••• Tribe: Zaedyini (Dwarf Armadillo and Hairy Armadillos) •••• Genus: Chaetophractus (Hairy Armadillos) ••••• Species: Chaetophractus Villosus (Big Hairy Armadillo) ••••• Species: Chaetophractus Vellerosus (Screaming Hairy Armadillo) ••••• Species: Chaetophractus Nationi (Andean Hairy Armadillo) •••• Genus: Zaedyus (Dwarf Armadillo) ••••• Species: Zaedyus Pichiy (Dwarf Armadillo)

[@ENAMULHAQUE-sn4tk]

What an excellent documentary ❤

[@bebopsbaby1]

I used to watch this show when I was little! Loved the intro

[@ElenaKomleva]

Thanks for the documentary!

[@elviw3003]

Fascinating creatures! We must do more to protect them and not to invade their theritory more than we already did. Beautiful video!❤️🥰

[@animalsduck9140]

ជួយចុចសាប់ស្រ្ដែតឆាលនែអូនផង

[@Will-tm5bj]

They are spreading. I never saw one outside of Florida or Texas but now they're in the blue ridge

[@SweetTater]

I've recently seen armadillos in the western portion of South Carolina.

[@melvinpena895]

I m live in Maryland Happy

[@lilbish3038]

One just snuck up on me while I was smoking out back lol I live in south tx they don’t see u till 1-3 ft away I usually scream and they run fast! So cute I’m less scared now watching this

[@whiterose7676]

Great documentary film🔥🔥🔥 and wonderful adorable animal ❤❤❤ Thanks for sharing!

[@_casg]

so cute those little rolly chonkers

[@edwardngarambe-nh5du]

thanks for this amazing documentary 👍

[@kid-ava]

such great info and great footage, thank you for uploading. I love these little creatures 🙃

[@jeanledoux3793]

Great documentary.

[@Yvory6]

If you scare a nine-banded Armadillo, it will jump into the air, often on the path of oncomming vehicles.

[@jennyvlogs7160]

That's why there were so many dead armadillos on the road when I went to Missouri. Poor little guys.

[@lynnleigha580]

Saying the armadillo doesn't eat eggs, while watching an armadillo eat eggs. Somehow I'm not very convinced, lol

[@lynnleigha580]

I'm sure they don't seem them out, but they sure don't walk away from a good clutch

[@Will-tm5bj]

They're in the Carolinas now and going up

[@farrahnobles1049]

One time I was in the forest camping in west texas and I was pretty far from camp. Then I started hearing this insanely loud crashing of leaves and brush. I was so scared it sounded like a huge animal, but I couldnt see anything. After peering through the forest I realised the sound was coming from only 5 feet in front of me! It was just an armadillo routing around absolutly oblivious to me, in fact it almost ran into me! What a funny little guy.

[@pprehn5268]

Thanks

[@Valkyriepedersen]

I just confronted one under my truck. Last week I saw 4 young ones. I thought they were a fox because they were running in a row nose to tail. This was also at night. Rock Island Tennessee.

[@tennesseegirl5539]

We have lots in Cannon County! 🙄

[@Fooma777]

3:46 THEY ROASTIN MY BOY😂

[@VolReed]

If you have problems with armadillos rooting up your flowerbeds and garden get some Cheyenne pepper powder, crushed red pepper and anything hot. Shake the pepper all over the ground and I guarantee you that they won’t be back. I once used some dried crushed ghost peppers.

[@Silvio.S.Arruda0044]

Picture show ... congratulations

[@catherinebiondo7944]

We have some in Missouri.

[@tennesseegirl5539]

Many many in Middle Tennessee these days......I saw one in my yard this evening and it had a patch of it's shell missing off its back.

[@AutisticBarbie]

Dang the dillo was minding its business until that lady pulled up and gave it leprosy

[@beebop9808]

lol Here's mud in your eye mr. gator! Chump! 🤣

[@Wahid910]

Thanks bro

[@robinhood3926]

For me the fact that they look like ant eaters is not so strange

[@budsodalsky]

that gator got sand kicked in his face at the beach!

[@mello3214]

❤️❤️❤️

[@Lonely_Texasball]

This animal won the 2023 Minecraft Mob Vote

[@potatopossum1]

5:35 lmaoooo

[@lisanowakow3688]

I hate to tell you this, but I’ve seen many of them in Virginia as well.

[@fastfishwater9787]

Why hate to say this? They’ve been documented in the western part of Virginia (The natural history museum has some good information on them) and there are old claims that people have seen them in Southeastern VA as well.

[@sashag2196]

lol, "mr magoo of the animal world"🤭

[@slingslang2934]

It's a small armored anteater & I want one

[@fretfultrout2788]

I never thought they’d live in America also

[@davidgravy2007]

What a minute. 150 years ago, "armadillos returned"? Where were they 300 years ago?

[@helenm2169]

1992 this film was made 30 years ago.....i wonder what the population is like today?

[@mammothfur2961]

15:46 would be a pretty cool voice line for anybody producing hip hop beats I guess XD

[@wrongway100]

Armadillos can carry leprosy people have some for pets good luck with that

[@JimJWalker]

I have dispatched 25 of these 9-Banded in the first 11 months of 2023 on my 5.25 acres in central Florida, of which only two were female. Looking at US 2013 9 banded population density maps, it shows I could have anywhere between 13 to 35 on my land at any one time. Luckily they rarely travel more than 1/2 mile from their birthplace. So, it seems I am managing the population and protecting ground laying bird eggs such as Turkeys and Quail. Left unchecked I could have hundreds in just a few years.

[@papwithanhatchet902]

You’re not doing any favors to any animals or birds, you psycho. Leave them alone, nature doesn’t need your “help”.

[@kid-ava]

are you killing them?? what the hell is wrong with you

[@JimJWalker]

@@kid-ava It is illegal to catch and release them in Florida. They are not native, damage crops, kill eggs of native Turkeys and Quail, plus they dig huge holes everywhere. Dispatching is the only option.

[@catsdogswoof3968]

​@@JimJWalkerare they jnvaisve though? Citation needee i feel like i heard it but idk

[@catsdogswoof3968]

Ok searched on googke they are invaise Still only 25

[@kano--]

They didn’t show it curling up a single time lol

[@jaredbond7908]

because that species actually doesn't. only one species of armadillo is able to do that.

[@kano--]

@@jaredbond7908 ohh ok

[@zachfoster5653]

26:06 I’m sorry what in the fuck just happened in a lake by a fucjin Armadillo in a body of water of this many shit brained alligators.

[@conradwasser7767]

I'm I back in school? Born in 89

[@oliverjudson1834]

fun fact you can get leprosy from them

[@mistymist6349]

It says that in the video

[@comepuchas990]

4.9.21

[@xultra_punkin]

who's here cause minecraft

[@juliacapcha1911]

..

[@w.e.s.]

Armadillo is spanish for armored rabbit wtf is he making up words for

[@edgarcardenas837]

$## history

[@edgarcardenas837]

Usa$# es el

[@nahword5604]

Hate to see these guys flipped over on the curb

[@donaldedwards7079]

like hire of hog when diging up youre yard

[@Growmap]

Interesting video except for the ridiculous commentary "died out" and reappeared? Really? And the evolutionists timeline. But still worth watching!

[@soulofachristian8704]

No man is 55 million years old or can make themselves live to 55million years old. Yet decide the armadillo is 55million years old....... lol bllsht. (Not 45, but 55 million years... 😅🤣😂)

[@southwesthardypalms]

What are you on about? 😂 He said the genus of animals known as armadillos appeared around 55 million years ago, not that each individual animal lived 55 million years 😂

[@soulofachristian8704]

@@southwesthardypalms the earth is no longer than 8000 years old, is what im saying. All this millions and billions of years ago is made up common lies from "scientists" that lived no longer than 100 years themselves

[@ReyBanYAHUAH]

Always remember we must repent of our sins (sin is transgression The Law Of Yahuah The Father in Heaven. The Law are The Books: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, & Deuteronomy). We must repent of our sins and Have Belief On Yahusha The Messiah. HE Died and Rose three days later so that we can be forgiven of our sins! Come to HIM🙂

[@juuk3103]

Ain't no sky wizards

[@YouRemindMeOfTheBabe.]

No, we do not have them in Arizona. I don't know where he got that information from, lol.

[@kennethsatria6607]

I did not even know they lived in swamps