The edentate is native to each North America and South America, though just one species of edentate is found within the u

The average edentate measures around 75cm long, together with the tail however the enormous edentate will grow to quite one.5m long and therefore the miniature pink (the smallest armadillo species) solely gets to around 10cm long.

There ar around twenty species of edentate still existent on the yank continent with the Dasypus novemcinctus being the sole species found outside of the South yank tropics.

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The edentate contains a laborious outer shell and might curl into a ball deed no soft body elements exposed to danger (a bit sort of a woodlouse). The edentate additionally has long claws that the edentate uses for dig burrows and attempting to find insects within the earth.

Despite the armadillo's odd form, most armadillos can also reach a prime speed of nearly thirty mph therefore can simply run most jungle predators. the first predators of the edentate ar bears, wolves, wildcats and cougars.