Showing posts with label Three Banded Armadillo (Tolypeutes tricinctus). Show all posts
Showing posts with label Three Banded Armadillo (Tolypeutes tricinctus). 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!


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