Showing posts with label America. Show all posts
Showing posts with label America. Show all posts
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!
"Tatu-Bola" Click 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
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