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| Armadillo, Dasypus novemcinctus, Dragging Leaves into Den. |
At dawn while brewing my tea, I saw an
armadillo crossing my
back yard.
It stopped when it got
to some ground cover by a pine stump and began arching its back, jumping up
slightly and moving backwards.
My
first thought was it got in a mound of fire ants.
But this action continued all the way across the yard.
Even in the low light, I finally
figured that it was gathering and dragging leaves back to its den beneath my
shed.
I grabbed the camera and
hurried out to get a shot just before it went under the building.
I guess we will be having quadruplets
soon, as armadillos have same sex litters of four.
Raccoons can also have four; one of my favorite
pictures is of a mother raccoon nursing 4 cubs.
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| Raccoon, Procyon lotor, nurses quadruplets in hollow tree. |
