FIFA and the enDANGERed Three BanDed Armadillo

The mascot for Brazil 2014, Fuleco will make FIFA rich, 

but the real animal, the Brazilian 3 Banded Armadillo

(Tolypeutes tricinctus) is dangerously near extinction!


Fuleco, the mascot of the 2014 World Cup


"Tatu-BolaClick to learn how Brazilians try to protect it :
http://www.acaatinga.org.br/index.php/2013/tatu-bola-e-a-copa-do-mundo-2014-juntos-marcando-um-gol-pela-sustentabilidade/
Here is another species, the  Nine Banded Armadillo (Dasypus novemcinctus)
Pluto and the Armadillo by Walt Disney