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. The nine-banded armadillo pin was designed by Lukas Phelan. Learn more about him and his work here: https://lukasphelan.com/ Get the Season Zero pin set here: https://complexly.store/products/season-zero-pin-set Follow us on socials: Twitter: https://twitter.com/bizarrebeasts Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bizarrebeastsshow/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BizarreBeastsShow/ #BizarreBeasts #armadillo ----- 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 https://www.nwf.org/Educational-Resources/Wildlife-Guide/Mammals/Nine-Banded-Armadillo https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ayotochtli https://www.britannica.com/animal/xenarthran https://academic.oup.com/jmammal/article/93/2/547/924791 https://tpwd.texas.gov/huntwild/wild/species/dillo/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1988/05/23/armadillos-feeling-stress-can-delay-births-for-2-years/fbbc84b2-9304-430a-bf08-ff7a19c952c6/ https://www.nature.com/articles/340106a0 https://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Dasypus_novemcinctus/ https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1010536 https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa0903753 https://internationaltextbookofleprosy.org/chapter/bioarchaeology-leprosy-learning-skeletons https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/how-armadillos-can-spread-leprosy-180954440/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6746198/ https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/6290/47440785#geographic-range ------ Images: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jew63kPxvwHLsKw_9TUBocaz9yMY-lFatyCbaxLGlK4/edit?usp=sharing