1. Armadillos: Fact or Fiction?

2. The three-banded armadillo can roll into a ball
The three-banded armadillo can roll into a ball. It is the ONLY armadillo that can do this.

3. Three-Banded Armadillos only live in Central and eastern Bolivia, the Mato Grasso of central Brazil, Chaco region of Paraguay, northern and central Argentina.

4. Nine-Banded Armadillos

5. Foreprint about 1 3/4" long, 1 5/8" wide; hindprint more than 2" long, 1 5/8" wide.
Track pattern

6. South-central and southeastern United States

7. Armadillos are not blind, but they do have poor eyesight
Armadillos are not blind, but they do have poor eyesight. They rely on their ears and noses more than their eyes to detect food or predators. (When your food is never farther away than the end of your tongue, you don’t really need spectacular vision to find it, do you?)
If you are close to an armadillo, and you stay quiet and stand still, the chances of it not noticing you are there are fairly good.

8. Nine-banded armadillos always give birth to four identical young — the only mammal known to do so.
There are either four females or four males.

9. Armadillos like to swim, and they are very good at it.
They can even go quite a distance underwater, walking along the bottom of streams and ponds. They can hold their breath for four to six minutes at a time.

10. Like most insect eating mammals, armadillos have a very long, sticky tongue to slurp up bugs as quickly as possible. They also are equipped with strong claws to tear open ant nests.
Their cousins, the anteaters, have very similar tongues and claws.

11. This armadillo could have been a model for J. D. Brooks

12. Illustrator:
S. G. Brooks
Author:
Jackie Hopkins

13. Sketch
Cover

14. What parts are true?

16. What story is this based on?

17. Author Helen Ketteman

18. Miss Billie

19. The Desert

20. Jan Brett did a lot of research about armadillos when she was writing and illustrating this book.

21. Author/Illustrator Jan Brett
Check out the boots!
Check the cover!
Go figure!
Author/Illustrator Jan Brett

22. Non-Fiction Books about Armadillos
Fiction and
Non-Fiction Books about Armadillos

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