Scientific Name: Tolypeutes tricinctus) Common Name: Three Banded Armadillo Diet: Primarily eats insects (ants, termites, beetle larvae) but also fruits, using a long, sticky tongue. MALE: $3600.00 /each female: 4000.00 /each
The Three-Banded Armadillo is a unique South American mammal, famous for being the only armadillo species that can roll into a complete, protective ball, using its flexible bony plates to shield its soft belly from predators like a jigsaw puzzle. Instead of digging extensive burrows, they prefer sleeping under bushes or in abandoned anteater holes, navigating on their hind legs and foreclaw tips, and dining on ants, termites, and fruits with their long, sticky tongues. They are solitary, nocturnal insectivores, and while their shell protects them from predators, it makes them vulnerable to humans who hunt them for food and the pet trade.