You Definitely Shouldn't Touch Armadillos
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- Опубліковано 8 вер 2024
- 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.
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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! 😃
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.
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.
“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
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!
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: ua-cam.com/video/OKkjRl1Hqf4/v-deo.htmlsi=3AJdpofmDsE0IhCB
@@BizarreBeastshaha credit:someone is actually correct i find that increble funny😅😅
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.
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. 😂
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
🤣👍
A full 8-hour shift completely alone and isolated… where do I sign up? It sounds like heaven.
The next time I see an armadillo in Minecraft I’m calling it “Turtle Rabbit” 😁
That name is so perfect
Turtle Rabbit Scute!!!
"Armadillo All The Time" would be a good name for a documentary about armadillos :joy:
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!
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.
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. 😊
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.
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 :)
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
Two lepers were playing cards. One threw his hand in and the other laughed his head off.
Love this series. It’s great to see groups update their content. The idea is refreshing.
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.
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!
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.
Love the armadillo wearables at the end. And all the facts too.
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.
"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.
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.
"The taste of ink is getting old... Its 4 o'clock in the f***ing morning..."
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.
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
You should do an episode on those Zip Disks, as they were some bizarre beasts (in like, data storage terms).
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.
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?"
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
5:34 If Hank writes his memoirs it should be titled Armadillos in an Office Park Outside Orlando.
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.
Growing up in Texas, I saw very few live armadillos but quite a few that had suffered unfortunate outcomes near roadways. 😐
Another fantastic thing about Armadillos: one was featured in the music video "Rock The Casbah" by The Clash.
I love the tarkus creatures
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."
It's always nice to see Hank popping up on so many different channels. Subbed
A job where I don't see or interact with a single other living being would actually be ideal for me...
Crunchy on the outside smooth on the inside, Armadillos!
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
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...
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.
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.
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.
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.
My biggest regret in life, now, is that I will never get to touch an Armadillo.
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 🌈
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.
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.
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.
Also known as possum on the half shell. Moving north as we speak.
Armadillos out at night: "Armadillo."
Armadillos laying still and squashed, on side of highway the next day: "Arm ah dead." 🙄🤦🤣☠️
Turtle rabbit! I love that. Great name. 🐢🐇
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.
Finding out Hank listened to the Used and 7 Seconds made my day
Mine too!!
Sarah's Texas bursting through with her urmadillas 😂
Its a living soccer ball with a snoofer snoot
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.
"i would not see a single living thing" that's.... my dream job.... I also work ina lab and I work the most efficient and relaxed if no one's there to distract/annoy me.
Life is a cruel mistress for making such cute little disease carriers.
Amazing story.
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 used to catch and play with Armadillos all the time growing up they are everywhere.
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.
credit: someone
"Here are True Facts about the Armoredildo"
I spent 11 years in Texas 1 of which was in an area where reportedly 14% of the armadillo population has leprosy. I regularly hiked right through a natural sand deposit that was crisscrossed with their tail trail paths. I wore sandals and stepped on plenty of that sand. I didn't get leprosy.
Also, I had no idea until now just how adorable those little guys are. 😂
ARMADILLOS!!! Crunchy on the outside, chewy on the inside.
"Oh! My darling armadillo
Let me tell you of my love!
Listen to my armadillo roundelay!
Be my fellow on my pillow!
You should only say
'I will!'
Oh be my darling armadillo all the day.
Be my darling armadillo all the day."
Michael Flanders and Donald Swann, "The Armadillo" from _The Bestiary of Flanders and Swann_ album
Too freakin adorable that the armadillos liked the buzzy sounds of the headphones, tragic that there were no insect snacks in them
They are neither cute or a tempting pet when they are regularly getting into your trash at 3am
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)
Wow both I’m and the video is early 😂😂😂 Seeing Hank this young makes me feel .... something, alright. I’m facing my mortality 😢
Sad drawfee’s armadillhole didn’t make an appearance 😂
I have always like armadillo's and now I know a lot more cool stuff about them ...thanks guys
I remember a song "Is this the way to armadillo, all of this time using one as a pillow " oh heck you said dont touch.
🎶Show him the way to Armadillo, Hank was weepin' like a willow... 🎶
IVE WAITED FOREVER FOR THIS VIDEO ABOUT WHY HE WORKED WITH ARMADILLOS. LIKE HOW DID HE LEAVE US ON THAT CLIFFHANGER?
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 Orlando and I’m surprised I haven’t seen nearly as many armadillos as Hank. I only ever seen like 2 and they were dead in the middle of the road in Windermere
It's rabbit-turtles all the way down for Sarah.
You had a window?!!!!! You lucky dog. I worked many years without that luxury.
I once encountered an armadillo while in northern Florida. I wanted to get out of the car and pick it up, but thought better of it. Okay. I was too chicken.
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.
What a title xD
Hank being excited makes me excited.
Yay! A fellow "originally from Texas".
Hank! I feel you! I’m an archaeology lab tech. It gets lonely in the dungeon!
"The following are true facts about the armadildo."
I NEED TO HUG ALL THE TURTLE RABBITS
(I promise to not actually hug them but I really, really want to)
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've been around armadillos for 50 years and I've never seen one "jump really high in the air."
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.
I amused myself a few times tapping armadillos on the back. It's like they don't know you're there until you knock....
Armadillo by morning... 🎵🎶
I didn’t know most of this!
I also aced an armadillo paper in 4th grade! Thanks!