Being the only one in the lab for the entire shift sucks! I did it for years and hated it. We worked 12 hour shifts and i was the night shift guy. They had 3 people in the lab on day shift and just me in night shift and they expected me to get the same amount of work done as 3 whole people in the same amount of time! Needless to say, i quit after they started complaining that i couldn't keep up with them and started my own science business and 5 years on I'm happier than I've ever been with my work.
Yup, good job on ditching the crap job. 3 people complaining that one person isn't as productive as the 3 of them combined is one of those things that is too stupid to be made up.
@@AtropalArbaal-dk8jv I doubted what you wrote, but I looked it up and learned the genetic diversity of the species is shockingly low for a mammal, apparently due to couple of very severe population bottlenecks in their evolutionary history. Thanks for teaching me something new!
Your smile, in the profile picture, looks forced: next time you photo, never go from a lower angle and think of a joke which makes you laugh, why are there no pregnant Barbie? Ken came in a different box.
I actually had a generational nest of armadillo under my house over 9 years in Lakeland FL where every year they would come back over from the wilds to be safe with their babies. Then we had coyotes and its hard to find them but I'm sure that if another comes here I'll have another decade of armadillos playing around the yard.
When armadillos are digging through leaves looking for food, they are so absorbed in their work that you can walk right up to them without them noticing - just like my nephew when he's playing video games.
Armadillos are very cute. Good advice to not touch them if you can avoid it but yeah, the leprosy concern is real but generally overstated. We have medicine now. Wear gloves, wash your hands, but you should be fine and if you aren't, just see a doctor, they can get you fine again.
As much as I love the 9 banded ones you should totally do a video on the fairy armadillo or the 3 banded ones, or really any of the other ones because armadillos are AWESOME!
I remember seeing armadillos at Kennedy Space Center in Titusville Florida. Massive coach buses were rolling up to take us out to another part of the base and little armadillos were running frantically to get out of the path of the buses. We were so relieved when the armadillos made it safely to the other side of the road! Cape Canaveral is also a nature preserve and there are so many interesting birds, reptiles and mammals to be seen there in addition to all the fascinating space stuff. If you go to see it, allow a full day to see everything.
When I was a kid, my dad had a "theory" about why you saw so many armadillos on the side of the road that weren't crushed. He thought that since they were almost always on the painted lines, they were pausing on the lines because of traffic, then overheating because the heat reflecting off the white paint couldn't escape their shells. Since armadillos almost always bled from their noses, he further theorized that the heat was so great that their organs ruptured. But as Hank said, they just tend to jump when startled, which means they get hit while in the air and land on the side of the road with fatal internal bleeding.
I volunteer at a wild animal sanctuary and we have an armadillo resident. I never have to touch him when I clean his enclosure, but I couldn’t anyway, because he never stops with the zoomies.
Also, mycobacteria in general are not exactly super virulent. It's hard to get infected to begin with... Not that it means you should go around catching armadillos without any concerns... Just let tbem be and enjoy their silly faces
One of my favourite things about science in general is when entirely different fields can verify each other's results. One group finding bones and saying "there's no evidence of leprosy here", and another group looking at genetics and saying "it doesn't seem to have come from there", it's just so satisfying!
Used to see armadillos around quite a bit in Central Texas, then they seemed to disappear about 30 years ago about the time that the fire ants moved farther north into the local area. Still see them occasionally on my property, but they are not as common as they once were. Here in Texas they are often affectionally referred to by the moniker Mobile Texas Speed Bumps.
Ive handled some armadillos. They are pretty feisty when you try and pick them up. They are stronger than they look. They'll get you with their claws mostly. They are digging machines that will scratch a hole in your skin in a snap of a finger. Once I managed to get one to calm down(very difficult) and get used to being handled. We kept her about 9 days. She was pretty cute and cuddly and my kids were crazy in love with her. They can curl up into a ball like a Rolly-Polly. I'd advise extreme caution on handling them. I got scratched pretty badly.
"Dasypus" is Greek for "shaggy foot" and originally referred to a rabbit. Europeans misheard "ayotochtli" (turtle rabbit) as "ayohtochtli" (gourd rabbit; 'h' is a glottal stop, and the first part is the origin of "ayote") and called it "dasypus cucurbitinus" or the like. Linnaeus took "Dasypus" for the genus name, but it's a misnomer when applied to the armadillo. I'd have preferred "Cachicamus" (from "cachicamo", a Venezuelan word, which actually means "armadillo") to be the genus name, but Linnaeus named it first, so "Dasypus" has priority.
I went to grad school at the University of West Florida and parts of the campus are covered in these guys around dusk. If you weren't paying attention and accidentally got too close they would jump and it's extremely startling if you aren't expecting it
Oh gosh as a kid we would pick the armadillo up by the tails. We knew of the disease but paid no attention to it. When I was in collage I lived in a dorm on the third floor and in the hallway was "Missy Armadillo. I grabbed the critter by the tail knocked on my neighbors door and when they answered I tossed it in their room. It got some kind of traction on the 60's shag carpet. I waited for a few seconds and opened the door. One guy was standing in the bed and the other on a chair yelling " What is it? What is it." I knew those city boys had never seen one. I took out and let it go in a park. I had no idea how the armadillo got in the third floor hallway. No armadillos were harmed in the making of this memory and 60 years later, I don't have leprosy. 😊
Wish you had covered their migration (is that the right word?) or spread of their range. When I was a boy they were in southern Missouri but they didn't make it to St. Louis until the 2000s. They didn't cross the Rio Grande into the US until the 1880s. They like human-shaped spaces, but it's not clear if they would have expanded in Native American territory even if whites hadn't changed the landscape. I think the similar expansion of the coyote is more obviously human-caused or human-influenced.
Migration is the commonly seasonal oscillation of organisms or other nouns of category or temporary movement between two or more areas. Some migrations, as that of the oceanic DVM - diel or diurnal vertical migration - both d-words meaning daily, occur as well as other periodic movement. Big land herbivores in fact make their rounds related to patchy resources, as bison or elephants naturally moved during night to exploit LIGHTLY by comparison with domestically confined herbivores, thus preserving their ecosystems, rather than, as we do, destroying habitats and regenerating systems. DISPERSAL is what humans seeking to live in the USA et cetera, ACTUALLY do.
I love this channel. Every critter, and the way you cover them, is delightful. These look-back ones are especially fun because I watched all the originals, and it's cool to see the updated information, as well as Hank's old hair. My one regret, whenever I watch an episode, is that there's no way I can afford to join the pin club. I just don't have the funds. So, those of you who do, please go for it, to help the raising of well-spent funds for good. And because pins are really neat. Just ask Hank.
OMG! I have an armadillo purse, too. It was in an antique store, and it still had the original tags on it. Though I've never actually used it, the straps have come off, but it still sits, regally displayed, on my book shelf. I love armadillos! Thanks for teaching me more about them.
As kind of a Doolittle who would play with every animal, I remember being yelled at by my parents for playing with an armadillo and told not to touch it because they carry disease. But they said I would get elephantiasis and not leprosy. One day they pointed to this poor person with one leg swollen beyond belief and said, that's what can happen if you touch armadillos.
We didn't know about the leprosy thing when I was a kid. Us kids were given full rein to roam the local cattle ranch as long as we were killin' armadillos. They are invasive in FLA and the cattle can suffer broken legs from stepping into an armadillo burrow. The rancher was happy when we held up a dead one while he was driving by in his Jeep.
Armadillos are adorable! In parts of Louisiana they pay you for dead ones to stop the spread of leprosy. In Texas I see them in the park at sunrise sometimes and my friend from Louisiana told me that they're nocturnal and if you see them in the daylight that means they probably have rabies. This is all very depressing hearing that the cute armadillos probably have leprosy and/or rabies, so I'm trying to find some kind of info that things aren't going THAT bad for armadillos! Texas Roadhouse used to decorate their restaurants with dead armadillos but thankfully they stopped.
I never knew they were born all genetically the same in quadruplets, really cool stuff! They’re such strange animals, they remind me of okapi where nothing else looks like them, such a unique creature
@@angelikalindenau943 Given the number of armadillos I've seen flattened on the sides of roads, I suspect the pups' rate of survival to sexual maturity is low enough that there isn't much danger of consanguinity among the offspring of siblings.
Armadillos are the coolest critters in North America! I've seen them many times over the years living in Oklahoma, Florida, and Arkansas. I've never touched any, though.
@@MatthewTheWanderer its great that you could observe them in their natural habitats... do their unique adaptations help them survive and thrive in different environments across North America??
@@AncientWildTV They only seem to be able to thrive in areas that are in or near forests and that get hot most of the year. So, no, they can't thrive in different environments across North America.
Down South, a road kill armadillo is known as "possum on the half-shell". And, no, I didn't make that up; I've visited south of Mason's and Dixon's line a few times...
When I was a kid we had a collection of short stories on cassette tape, which we would listen to on car rides. One of my favorites was one of Rudyard Kipling's "Just So Stories," about how Armadillos came to exist. In the story, a Tortoise and a Hedgehog are scared of a young Jaguar who keeps trying to hunt them. The Jaguar's mother tries to give him advice on how to hunt each kind of animal, and how to tell them apart, but the two friends manage to sort of share some of their features with each other through practice: The Hedgehog smoothes some of his quills together to form a sort of shell, and he learns how to swim. The Tortoise learns how to curl up by loosening some of his back plates, so he can curl up into a ball and roll around. These new creatures so confuse the young Jaguar that he gives up in frustration, and his mother decides maybe it's just better to leave the new animals alone. The narrators on this audio version told the story extremely well. I can still hear the mother Jaguar's voice as she says, "Son, son..." and the voices of the Turtle and Armadillo as they gleefully help each other adapt, and laugh at the poor young Jaguar, "Won't young Jaguar be surprised?"
3:02 an armadillo pool video so cute I could not concentrate on words and had to rewind three times! OMG! and are you kidding me with that "Pink Fairy Armadillo"!? 4:06 and isn't that "Southern Three-Banded Armadillo" a movie character? Even the human hosts are almost unbearably adorable!!!
They can walk under water....but they have a real tough time crossing roads........Lots of opossum on the half shell next to the main roads down south.
You need to update your map, because armadillos have definitely migrated into South Carolina and North Carolina. I live in Columbia, SC and I see them all the time. Unfortunately, as roadkill most of the time.
Living in the deep wilderness, camping in Florida, we would roast a whole armadillo on the campfire. We jokingly called it "Roast Hansen's", as we knew it was treatable. Nobody ever got anything.
When Minecraft added Armadillos to the game this year, I was one of the people in the comments saying, "Who's gonna tell them?" But fact checks like this shut me up. I still think Mojang could have done more good (re: awareness and conservation) by adding *Pangolins* instead, but I'm happy to see the turtle-rabbits, nonetheless.
I used to work at a place where I was the only person there until about 5pm when I would get off. Then go home to roommates who didn’t want to socialize (they created a ‘home all day clique’ that didn’t include me) so it wasn’t really a fun time for me. Since I was the most senior the job wasn’t too bad. I could really do whatever I wanted during the day. However other than that this was probably one of the most lonely times in my life. Well loneliest time while still being surrounded by people. Now it’s just lonely with no people.
Interesting observation. The incredible mass purposeful anonymity of the hugely overpopulated human world induces a desolate loneliness in me, in urbia and suburbia, where i lately live. Visiting high mountain, untrammeled forest, and the large desert areas of this continent are FAR, FAR, LESS desolate to me than the emotionally avoidant and cold, callous human enclaves, where even the very young stare downward into their devices, oblivious to real life.
In central Texas, some auto-parts stores carry 'Dillo Sticks'; a short club-like stick that's intended for prying the unfortunate creature out of your cars grill or windshield. The un-labelled use is for finishing the poor critter off.
We have nine banded armadillos in my country and I would sometimes see them near a beach I used to go. I didn't know they could jump though, I always saw them eating and chilling. One night I was seeing how close I could get to one without it fleeing. There was a dog nearby and I turned back to check on it every few seconds. I was crawling closer to the armadillo and when I was like two meters away from it, I heard a noise. Iturned back and saw the dog sprinting towards us and I rapidly stood up tall and got between the two animals. The little guy then jumped up in the air like a startled cat and as soon as it hit the ground again, it ran full speed into the tall grass and got out of view in less than two seconds. I think the dog was as shocked as I was after seeing that.
After doing Armadillos you have to do Armadillholes next, I know one named Greg thats pretty cool you should talk to him.(just don't buy his vape cartridges)
So, yet one more thing we can blame Columbus for. Oh, humans! I can definitely understand Hank's obsession with those armadillos. I think armadillos are amazing, incredibly cute little critters!
Columbus didn't get to the continent. It was Vespucci and others. This is in fact, why we are named after Amerigo's rounds, rather than the windings of Colon (yes, his Spanish surname. Imagine being named after the flatulence-generating area of the body! of course, that would indicate that Florida, an area where too many of my own relatives occupied, is the Lower Colon, being the Rectum of the northern continent, and US citizens would not be quite so eager as to arrogate the name of both continents to themselves!), or the Italianized "Columbo."
We have armadillo races in Texas. The handlers are licensed and humane. They are those that can’t go back into the wild. They are very funny and very safe. Not terribly bright but cute bug eaters
@@bartolomeothesatyr Lol, these guys only eat arthropods, and there's never any shortage of those. They would also be excellent prey for Tasmanian devils when they are reintroduced to the mainland in numbers.
I love living in areas where the wildlife just ventures into our spaces. Sadly it results in them getting hurt, but maybe some day we'll be able to coexist this closely with minimal casualties.
Neat little critters. Read somewhere a long time ago that leprosy was introduced into armadillos when they ate leper snot at a colony. Also there was mention of an outbreak among some HS football players who would chase them as an agility exercise.
I live in Missouri and the Armadillo population has exploded here in the last 20 years. 30 years ago it very rare to see them, now hiways are practically lined with their carcasses. Last week I was sleeping with the windows open when I heard a bunch of rustling in the leaves outside. I went to investigate and found an Armadillo raking leaves into a hole beneath the garage. I thought I chased it off, but now the hole is plugged with leaves. So now I'm wondering if I have a female that made a nest and is starting a family under my garage, and if so, what to do. I thought of rolling some smoke bombs under there to run it out, but if there a babies I don't need them dying and stinking the place up. The leaves haven't been disturbed in a week, so if she's in there she hasn't left. I caught one in a live trap once and before I could relocate it, it bent the trap and escaped.
@@triumph.over.shipwreck They're little bulldozers that like to dig. They can be expensively destructive to property, either directly or by undermining the foundations.
I have watched the northern expansion of the 9 banded through Missouri sine 1985. They have been making about 2 miles per year advance. Basing my opinion on road kills starting down near the Lake of the Ozarks,and north to Centralia, Mo. now.
🤘🏼Dude Hank not only did you teach me a new phrase Turtle rabbit which I'm going to say as often as possible but you just dropped a 7 Seconds reference I knew you were freaking cool but I didn't know you were like as cool as me stay punk rock and smart my man🤘🏼
That have been working their way a little further north according reports from landowners and hunters. In florida one of dogs often kills them. They often dig up gardens looking for small creatures to eat.
Being the only one in the lab for the entire shift sucks! I did it for years and hated it. We worked 12 hour shifts and i was the night shift guy. They had 3 people in the lab on day shift and just me in night shift and they expected me to get the same amount of work done as 3 whole people in the same amount of time! Needless to say, i quit after they started complaining that i couldn't keep up with them and started my own science business and 5 years on I'm happier than I've ever been with my work.
Good for you.
'science business'? So what do you do exactly in this business?
@@ArawnOfAnnwn They do a lot of sciencing
Yup, good job on ditching the crap job. 3 people complaining that one person isn't as productive as the 3 of them combined is one of those things that is too stupid to be made up.
Oh I wish I could create a science business. I need a 2nd gig like a ding dong needs a bell!
always having genetically identical quadruplets is wild
Yeah no wonder there’s not much genetic diversity
strength in numbers. and who better to hang with than me myself and I
Every Cheetah in the world are genetically siblings.
@@AtropalArbaal-dk8jv I doubted what you wrote, but I looked it up and learned the genetic diversity of the species is shockingly low for a mammal, apparently due to couple of very severe population bottlenecks in their evolutionary history. Thanks for teaching me something new!
Your smile, in the profile picture, looks forced: next time you photo, never go from a lower angle and think of a joke which makes you laugh, why are there no pregnant Barbie? Ken came in a different box.
Arming the Dillos was a mistake. They've developed full body armor now, and more is coming... * narrows eyes * ... coming for US!
They’re moved straight to biological warfare, completely ignoring the Genova convention! Completely uncivilized!
Tarkus
Already acquired Bioweapon
Ayyyy armadillo pun
Well that’s ok, I’m in UK! 😃
Roll is such a cute name for a bunch of armadillos!!
as is that turtle-rabbit name xD
@@alveolate a perfect fit :p
The can roll out!
“I managed the lab by myself.”
Uh oh…
That is a massive red flag and this comment should have way more likes.
I don't get it...
@@ryanokane1312 We’re calling Hank bad at lab management because we like teasing people we like in a certain way.
The mold outbreak
@@DoroteaTheMacuahuitl-Potato also because it speaks to a severe lack of safety oversight by his superiors.
3:02 "Credit: Someone" Man, I remember wishing in high school I could just put THAT as my works cited page... and I still do wish that! 😂
Right? Haha! But in this case, that was all we could find for a credit: ruclips.net/video/OKkjRl1Hqf4/видео.htmlsi=3AJdpofmDsE0IhCB
@@BizarreBeastshaha credit:someone is actually correct i find that increble funny😅😅
I actually had a generational nest of armadillo under my house over 9 years in Lakeland FL where every year they would come back over from the wilds to be safe with their babies. Then we had coyotes and its hard to find them but I'm sure that if another comes here I'll have another decade of armadillos playing around the yard.
We love sheriff Grady Judd almost as much as we love armadillos.
When armadillos are digging through leaves looking for food, they are so absorbed in their work that you can walk right up to them without them noticing - just like my nephew when he's playing video games.
Armadillos are very cute. Good advice to not touch them if you can avoid it but yeah, the leprosy concern is real but generally overstated. We have medicine now. Wear gloves, wash your hands, but you should be fine and if you aren't, just see a doctor, they can get you fine again.
As much as I love the 9 banded ones you should totally do a video on the fairy armadillo or the 3 banded ones, or really any of the other ones because armadillos are AWESOME!
A full 8-hour shift completely alone and isolated… where do I sign up? It sounds like heaven.
Plugging the Drawfee episode where Hank has them draw animals he wishes were real, and makes Karina draw a vaping armadillo
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They are on that 2 million creep after all, and it's a really fun episode
Yes, Armadillhole I remember him. And the nightmarish pelicorn. 😂
The next time I see an armadillo in Minecraft I’m calling it “Turtle Rabbit” 😁
That name is so perfect
Turtle Rabbit Scute!!!
Love this series. It’s great to see groups update their content. The idea is refreshing.
Leprosy, oh leprosy, you left me half the man I used to be
💔🦠
Now my nose is hanging off of me
Oh I believe
In leprosy
My feet are where my knees should be
Oh leprosy, came suddenly
Why my arm had to go I don't know, it wouldn't stay
🤣👍
I remember seeing armadillos at Kennedy Space Center in Titusville Florida. Massive coach buses were rolling up to take us out to another part of the base and little armadillos were running frantically to get out of the path of the buses. We were so relieved when the armadillos made it safely to the other side of the road! Cape Canaveral is also a nature preserve and there are so many interesting birds, reptiles and mammals to be seen there in addition to all the fascinating space stuff. If you go to see it, allow a full day to see everything.
"Armadillo All The Time" would be a good name for a documentary about armadillos :joy:
When I was a kid, my dad had a "theory" about why you saw so many armadillos on the side of the road that weren't crushed. He thought that since they were almost always on the painted lines, they were pausing on the lines because of traffic, then overheating because the heat reflecting off the white paint couldn't escape their shells. Since armadillos almost always bled from their noses, he further theorized that the heat was so great that their organs ruptured.
But as Hank said, they just tend to jump when startled, which means they get hit while in the air and land on the side of the road with fatal internal bleeding.
Wow. That's some very complex mythology he created to explain the unknown.
Armadillos are so cute! I'm from Australia, we don't have them here, so I'm tempted to visit the USA to see the wildlife :)
I volunteer at a wild animal sanctuary and we have an armadillo resident. I never have to touch him when I clean his enclosure, but I couldn’t anyway, because he never stops with the zoomies.
What's the name of the sanctuary? My son volunteers at a rescue and now I like to look up every one that I come across :)
Also, mycobacteria in general are not exactly super virulent. It's hard to get infected to begin with... Not that it means you should go around catching armadillos without any concerns... Just let tbem be and enjoy their silly faces
One of my favourite things about science in general is when entirely different fields can verify each other's results. One group finding bones and saying "there's no evidence of leprosy here", and another group looking at genetics and saying "it doesn't seem to have come from there", it's just so satisfying!
Used to see armadillos around quite a bit in Central Texas, then they seemed to disappear about 30 years ago about the time that the fire ants moved farther north into the local area. Still see them occasionally on my property, but they are not as common as they once were.
Here in Texas they are often affectionally referred to by the moniker Mobile Texas Speed Bumps.
Ive handled some armadillos. They are pretty feisty when you try and pick them up. They are stronger than they look. They'll get you with their claws mostly. They are digging machines that will scratch a hole in your skin in a snap of a finger. Once I managed to get one to calm down(very difficult) and get used to being handled. We kept her about 9 days. She was pretty cute and cuddly and my kids were crazy in love with her. They can curl up into a ball like a Rolly-Polly. I'd advise extreme caution on handling them. I got scratched pretty badly.
Another fantastic thing about Armadillos: one was featured in the music video "Rock The Casbah" by The Clash.
"Dasypus" is Greek for "shaggy foot" and originally referred to a rabbit. Europeans misheard "ayotochtli" (turtle rabbit) as "ayohtochtli" (gourd rabbit; 'h' is a glottal stop, and the first part is the origin of "ayote") and called it "dasypus cucurbitinus" or the like. Linnaeus took "Dasypus" for the genus name, but it's a misnomer when applied to the armadillo.
I'd have preferred "Cachicamus" (from "cachicamo", a Venezuelan word, which actually means "armadillo") to be the genus name, but Linnaeus named it first, so "Dasypus" has priority.
Love the armadillo wearables at the end. And all the facts too.
I went to grad school at the University of West Florida and parts of the campus are covered in these guys around dusk. If you weren't paying attention and accidentally got too close they would jump and it's extremely startling if you aren't expecting it
It's always nice to see Hank popping up on so many different channels. Subbed
Oh gosh as a kid we would pick the armadillo up by the tails. We knew of the disease but paid no attention to it. When I was in collage I lived in a dorm on the third floor and in the hallway was "Missy Armadillo. I grabbed the critter by the tail knocked on my neighbors door and when they answered I tossed it in their room. It got some kind of traction on the 60's shag carpet. I waited for a few seconds and opened the door. One guy was standing in the bed and the other on a chair yelling " What is it? What is it." I knew those city boys had never seen one. I took out and let it go in a park. I had no idea how the armadillo got in the third floor hallway. No armadillos were harmed in the making of this memory and 60 years later, I don't have leprosy. 😊
Wish you had covered their migration (is that the right word?) or spread of their range. When I was a boy they were in southern Missouri but they didn't make it to St. Louis until the 2000s. They didn't cross the Rio Grande into the US until the 1880s. They like human-shaped spaces, but it's not clear if they would have expanded in Native American territory even if whites hadn't changed the landscape. I think the similar expansion of the coyote is more obviously human-caused or human-influenced.
Migration is the commonly seasonal oscillation of organisms or other nouns of category or temporary movement between two or more areas. Some migrations, as that of the oceanic DVM - diel or diurnal vertical migration - both d-words meaning daily, occur as well as other periodic movement.
Big land herbivores in fact make their rounds related to patchy resources, as bison or elephants naturally moved during night to exploit LIGHTLY by comparison with domestically confined herbivores, thus preserving their ecosystems, rather than, as we do, destroying habitats and regenerating systems.
DISPERSAL is what humans seeking to live in the USA et cetera, ACTUALLY do.
I worked as a taxidermist's assistant for about 8 years and we handled a lot of them. No leprosy.
I love this channel. Every critter, and the way you cover them, is delightful. These look-back ones are especially fun because I watched all the originals, and it's cool to see the updated information, as well as Hank's old hair.
My one regret, whenever I watch an episode, is that there's no way I can afford to join the pin club. I just don't have the funds. So, those of you who do, please go for it, to help the raising of well-spent funds for good. And because pins are really neat. Just ask Hank.
OMG! I have an armadillo purse, too. It was in an antique store, and it still had the original tags on it. Though I've never actually used it, the straps have come off, but it still sits, regally displayed, on my book shelf. I love armadillos! Thanks for teaching me more about them.
As kind of a Doolittle who would play with every animal, I remember being yelled at by my parents for playing with an armadillo and told not to touch it because they carry disease. But they said I would get elephantiasis and not leprosy. One day they pointed to this poor person with one leg swollen beyond belief and said, that's what can happen if you touch armadillos.
You should do an episode on those Zip Disks, as they were some bizarre beasts (in like, data storage terms).
Too freakin adorable that the armadillos liked the buzzy sounds of the headphones, tragic that there were no insect snacks in them
"The taste of ink is getting old... Its 4 o'clock in the f***ing morning..."
4:58 Oh, I'm sorry. WHAT THE HELL?
lol yea that's a crazy thing to just say
We didn't know about the leprosy thing when I was a kid. Us kids were given full rein to roam the local cattle ranch as long as we were killin' armadillos. They are invasive in FLA and the cattle can suffer broken legs from stepping into an armadillo burrow. The rancher was happy when we held up a dead one while he was driving by in his Jeep.
I took an injured armadillo to the vet and was extremely cautious not to touch it. They laughed at me and said it was so much hype and hysteria.
You should go back and tell them theyre wrong
@@ChicCanyon Tell the experts that they're wrong? These aren't Fauci-type experts. They actually know what they're doing.
I love the tarkus creatures
Growing up in Texas, I saw very few live armadillos but quite a few that had suffered unfortunate outcomes near roadways. 😐
Armadillos are adorable! In parts of Louisiana they pay you for dead ones to stop the spread of leprosy. In Texas I see them in the park at sunrise sometimes and my friend from Louisiana told me that they're nocturnal and if you see them in the daylight that means they probably have rabies. This is all very depressing hearing that the cute armadillos probably have leprosy and/or rabies, so I'm trying to find some kind of info that things aren't going THAT bad for armadillos! Texas Roadhouse used to decorate their restaurants with dead armadillos but thankfully they stopped.
I never knew they were born all genetically the same in quadruplets, really cool stuff! They’re such strange animals, they remind me of okapi where nothing else looks like them, such a unique creature
How does having identical quadruplets work for genetic diversity?
@@angelikalindenau943 Given the number of armadillos I've seen flattened on the sides of roads, I suspect the pups' rate of survival to sexual maturity is low enough that there isn't much danger of consanguinity among the offspring of siblings.
5:34 If Hank writes his memoirs it should be titled Armadillos in an Office Park Outside Orlando.
Armadillos are the coolest critters in North America! I've seen them many times over the years living in Oklahoma, Florida, and Arkansas. I've never touched any, though.
"Critters, " one imagines, refers to the precipitates , as in hematocrit, or else, events defined as critical.
@@briseboy That's NOT what I meant, weirdo.
@@MatthewTheWanderer its great that you could observe them in their natural habitats... do their unique adaptations help them survive and thrive in different environments across North America??
@@AncientWildTV They only seem to be able to thrive in areas that are in or near forests and that get hot most of the year. So, no, they can't thrive in different environments across North America.
Down South, a road kill armadillo is known as "possum on the half-shell". And, no, I didn't make that up; I've visited south of Mason's and Dixon's line a few times...
When I was a kid we had a collection of short stories on cassette tape, which we would listen to on car rides. One of my favorites was one of Rudyard Kipling's "Just So Stories," about how Armadillos came to exist. In the story, a Tortoise and a Hedgehog are scared of a young Jaguar who keeps trying to hunt them. The Jaguar's mother tries to give him advice on how to hunt each kind of animal, and how to tell them apart, but the two friends manage to sort of share some of their features with each other through practice: The Hedgehog smoothes some of his quills together to form a sort of shell, and he learns how to swim. The Tortoise learns how to curl up by loosening some of his back plates, so he can curl up into a ball and roll around. These new creatures so confuse the young Jaguar that he gives up in frustration, and his mother decides maybe it's just better to leave the new animals alone.
The narrators on this audio version told the story extremely well. I can still hear the mother Jaguar's voice as she says, "Son, son..." and the voices of the Turtle and Armadillo as they gleefully help each other adapt, and laugh at the poor young Jaguar, "Won't young Jaguar be surprised?"
Never seeing or talking to another person at work? I can't hardly farhom something so awesome.
My biggest regret in life, now, is that I will never get to touch an Armadillo.
3:02 an armadillo pool video so cute I could not concentrate on words and had to rewind three times! OMG! and are you kidding me with that "Pink Fairy Armadillo"!? 4:06 and isn't that "Southern Three-Banded Armadillo" a movie character? Even the human hosts are almost unbearably adorable!!!
They can walk under water....but they have a real tough time crossing roads........Lots of opossum on the half shell next to the main roads down south.
A job where I don't see or interact with a single other living being would actually be ideal for me...
You need to update your map, because armadillos have definitely migrated into South Carolina and North Carolina. I live in Columbia, SC and I see them all the time. Unfortunately, as roadkill most of the time.
Amazing story.
Living in the deep wilderness, camping in Florida, we would roast a whole armadillo on the campfire. We jokingly called it "Roast Hansen's", as we knew it was treatable. Nobody ever got anything.
Lol,I used to catch armadillos all the time when I was a kid, never heard of this before and actually kinda funny.
Going to work and not seeing or having to deal with a single other person sounds like a dream job to me NGL.
I live in Florida, I've known this my entire life. They don't just carry leprosy but a slew of other worms and parasites.
When Minecraft added Armadillos to the game this year, I was one of the people in the comments saying, "Who's gonna tell them?"
But fact checks like this shut me up. I still think Mojang could have done more good (re: awareness and conservation) by adding *Pangolins* instead, but I'm happy to see the turtle-rabbits, nonetheless.
Tell them what?
Wow as a kid I saw these all the time, we lived near a creek, and never realized they were living in such a relatively small area of the US.
"The following are true facts about the armadildo."
Don't listen to this guy. He just wants all the armadillo affection for himself.
I used to work at a place where I was the only person there until about 5pm when I would get off. Then go home to roommates who didn’t want to socialize (they created a ‘home all day clique’ that didn’t include me) so it wasn’t really a fun time for me. Since I was the most senior the job wasn’t too bad. I could really do whatever I wanted during the day. However other than that this was probably one of the most lonely times in my life. Well loneliest time while still being surrounded by people. Now it’s just lonely with no people.
Interesting observation.
The incredible mass purposeful anonymity of the hugely overpopulated human world induces a desolate loneliness in me, in urbia and suburbia, where i lately live.
Visiting high mountain, untrammeled forest, and the large desert areas of this continent are FAR, FAR, LESS desolate to me than the emotionally avoidant and cold, callous human enclaves, where even the very young stare downward into their devices, oblivious to real life.
In Mexico Armadillo is a pretty popular dish in some areas and nobody gets sick from it.
Turtle rabbit! I love that. Great name. 🐢🐇
In central Texas, some auto-parts stores carry 'Dillo Sticks'; a short club-like stick that's intended for prying the unfortunate creature out of your cars grill or windshield.
The un-labelled use is for finishing the poor critter off.
We have nine banded armadillos in my country and I would sometimes see them near a beach I used to go. I didn't know they could jump though, I always saw them eating and chilling.
One night I was seeing how close I could get to one without it fleeing. There was a dog nearby and I turned back to check on it every few seconds. I was crawling closer to the armadillo and when I was like two meters away from it, I heard a noise. Iturned back and saw the dog sprinting towards us and I rapidly stood up tall and got between the two animals. The little guy then jumped up in the air like a startled cat and as soon as it hit the ground again, it ran full speed into the tall grass and got out of view in less than two seconds.
I think the dog was as shocked as I was after seeing that.
Armadillos can be roadkill on Red Dead Redemption too. I accidentally ran over more than a few of them with my horse in game. XD
Crunchy on the outside smooth on the inside, Armadillos!
After doing Armadillos you have to do Armadillholes next, I know one named Greg thats pretty cool you should talk to him.(just don't buy his vape cartridges)
So, yet one more thing we can blame Columbus for. Oh, humans!
I can definitely understand Hank's obsession with those armadillos. I think armadillos are amazing, incredibly cute little critters!
Thanks again, white Christian colonialism! 😡
Columbus didn't get to the continent. It was Vespucci and others.
This is in fact, why we are named after Amerigo's rounds, rather than the windings of Colon (yes, his Spanish surname.
Imagine being named after the flatulence-generating area of the body!
of course, that would indicate that Florida, an area where too many of my own relatives occupied, is the Lower Colon, being the Rectum of the northern continent, and US citizens would not be quite so eager as to arrogate the name of both continents to themselves!),
or the Italianized "Columbo."
🎶Show him the way to Armadillo, Hank was weepin' like a willow... 🎶
Hank being excited makes me excited.
We have armadillo races in Texas. The handlers are licensed and humane. They are those that can’t go back into the wild. They are very funny and very safe. Not terribly bright but cute bug eaters
Leprosy can incubate for up to 20 years. It's not entirely impossibly Hank did get it from them, although at this point it's safe to expect he didn't.
How old is Henk? 50? Hahaha 🌈
I'm pretty sure that armadillos would thrive in Australia without any negative impacts on our native fauna.
Someone had similar thoughts about the cane toad once upon a time.
@@bartolomeothesatyr Lol, these guys only eat arthropods, and there's never any shortage of those. They would also be excellent prey for Tasmanian devils when they are reintroduced to the mainland in numbers.
Also known as possum on the half shell. Moving north as we speak.
Roast to correct temp, but do not overcook. Think pork.
"Here are True Facts about the Armoredildo"
I love living in areas where the wildlife just ventures into our spaces. Sadly it results in them getting hurt, but maybe some day we'll be able to coexist this closely with minimal casualties.
Love the Zip Disks!
ARMADILLOS!!! Crunchy on the outside, chewy on the inside.
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New subscriber. Greetings from Argentina!
Sarah's Texas bursting through with her urmadillas 😂
Neat little critters. Read somewhere a long time ago that leprosy was introduced into armadillos when they ate leper snot at a colony. Also there was mention of an outbreak among some HS football players who would chase them as an agility exercise.
We have a lot in Missouri. They have turf wars with chickens.
Hey Hank. It's good to see you. Your brush with death has made me think about life, and the pursuit of happiness.
Grew up on south texas. Would see them frequently even in a bigger city like San Antonio. Not so much anymore. But definitely a favorite animal.
Don't see it mentioned but only 9 banded armadillos can carry leprosy, .which these are.
I didn’t know most of this!
I also aced an armadillo paper in 4th grade! Thanks!
I amused myself a few times tapping armadillos on the back. It's like they don't know you're there until you knock....
I live in Missouri and the Armadillo population has exploded here in the last 20 years. 30 years ago it very rare to see them, now hiways are practically lined with their carcasses.
Last week I was sleeping with the windows open when I heard a bunch of rustling in the leaves outside. I went to investigate and found an Armadillo raking leaves into a hole beneath the garage.
I thought I chased it off, but now the hole is plugged with leaves. So now I'm wondering if I have a female that made a nest and is starting a family under my garage, and if so, what to do. I thought of rolling some smoke bombs under there to run it out, but if there a babies I don't need them dying and stinking the place up.
The leaves haven't been disturbed in a week, so if she's in there she hasn't left.
I caught one in a live trap once and before I could relocate it, it bent the trap and escaped.
Why run them away / trap them?
@@triumph.over.shipwreck They're little bulldozers that like to dig. They can be expensively destructive to property, either directly or by undermining the foundations.
@@bartolomeothesatyr That's true. Fair enough. Thanks for choosing non lethal methods to maintain your area.
I have watched the northern expansion of the 9 banded through Missouri sine 1985.
They have been making about 2 miles per year advance. Basing my opinion on road kills starting down near the Lake of the Ozarks,and north to Centralia, Mo. now.
🤘🏼Dude Hank not only did you teach me a new phrase Turtle rabbit which I'm going to say as often as possible but you just dropped a 7 Seconds reference I knew you were freaking cool but I didn't know you were like as cool as me stay punk rock and smart my man🤘🏼
Life is a cruel mistress for making such cute little disease carriers.
This Hank Green fella seems to get around quite a bit
That have been working their way a little further north according reports from landowners and hunters. In florida one of dogs often kills them. They often dig up gardens looking for small creatures to eat.
Hardshell possums will give you things you can't get rid of. I live in North central Oklahoma and didn't see a armadillo until the early seventies.