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Old 14-03-2007, 09:16 PM
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Originally Posted by armadillolover View Post
9-banded armadillos (the species found in North America) "Dasypus novemcinctus" - can run about 7 mph.
That's probably faster than me!
Wonderful animals armadillos - they fascinated me as a child - still do but I've never seen one in the wild ...
There are no European armadillos, of course, and never have been. One thing that made me guffaw was the first film version of 'Dracula' where the Count had armadillos walking around in his Transylvanian living room!
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