Uploaded July 2024 | Updated September 2026, 35 minutes ago

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Welcome back to Bizarre Beasts: Season Zero, where we are remastering episodes of Bizarre Beasts that were originally created for Vlogbrothers. This episode, nine-banded armadillos, the little land critter that can walk underwater.

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Sources:
https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/five-facts-nine-banded-armadillo/
http://www.columbia.edu/itc/cerc/danoff-burg/invasion_bio/inv_spp_summ/Dasypus_novemcinctus.html
nwf.org/Educational-Resources/Wildlife-Guide/Mammals/Nine-Banded-Armadillo
nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ayotochtli
britannica.com/animal/xenarthran
academic.oup.com/jmammal/article/93/2/547/924791
tpwd.texas.gov/huntwild/wild/species/dillo
washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1988/05/23/armadillos-feeling-stress-can-delay-births-for-2-years/fbbc84b2-9304-430a-bf08-ff7a19c952c6
nature.com/articles/340106a0
animaldiversity.org/accounts/Dasypus_novemcinctus
nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1010536
nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa0903753
internationaltextbookofleprosy.org/chapter/bioarchaeology-leprosy-learning-skeletons
smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/how-armadillos-can-spread-leprosy-180954440
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6746198
iucnredlist.org/species/6290/47440785#geographic-range
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Images:
docs.google.com/document/d/1jew63kPxvwHLsKw_9TUBocaz9yMY-lFatyCbaxLGlK4/edit?usp=sharing