Distribution Map - Photo by Chermundy (Wikimedia)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nOkay, so I guess we should talk a bit more about the bizarre name of this Armadillo. As I said, these animals do have long hairs that grow between their protective plates. I am not sure what the purpose of this hair is but I am willing to bet they have bed head after napping all day in their burrow. Well, I guess it would technically be called burrow back instead of bed head. Similarly, as their name implies, these hairy armadillos are screamers. When the Screaming Hairy Armadillo is threatened they will begin to make a loud screaming or squealing sound to scare off the threat. Again, I am not sure how well this tactic works but I personally would be confused if a Hairy Armadillo started screaming at me.<\/p>\n
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Since the week has been “screaming” by for me, I figured we would talk about an incredible animal from South America called the Screaming Hairy Armadillo. Okay, so maybe the “screaming” pun was forced a little a bit but this week really has been flying by. We are going to talk about the appearance of this crazy animal but I figure you can guess two things right off the bat. Yes, that’s right, we are in fact, studying a hairy armadillo that likes to scream. Once again, the people who name these animals are not very creative! As mentioned, you <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5267,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[60,4024],"tags":[348,449,4025,2412,2413],"yoast_head":"\n
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