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Related: About this forumIntrusive Frogeater Destroys Lone Star's State Mammal: The Nine-Banded Dillo, Leaving None Remaining in Texas!
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No one asked any furrin Frenchy's opinion on armadillosbut somehow one thought he should shove his Gallic nose in and answer a question no True Texan ever had!
The result has been the fragmentation of the range of what was until now the most widespread of all armadillo speciesthe nine-banded armadilloleaving *none at all* here in Texas, where it is our State (Small) Mammal.
The only remaining nine-banded armadillos (Dasypus novemcinctus) are now to be found somewhere in South America!?! All wild and free nine-banded armadillos in The Lone Star have been replaced by Dasypus mexicanusthe Mexican armadillo!
In news thats likely to be awkward for whoever decided that the nine-banded armadillo should be the state small animal of Texas, scientists have discovered that its actually four different species and the only one thats kept the name doesnt even live in the state.
At least until now, nine-banded armadillos were considered to be the most widespread of all the armadillo species, with a range that saw them all the way from Argentina up into the center of the US.
Thats a pretty impressive range but one that had doubt cast upon it when some scientists began to propose that the nine-banded armadillo was in fact a complex of species.
One of those scientists was Frédéric Delsuc, a research director at the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) in France, who started to suspect a split within the nine-banded species back in the late 1990s, but didnt have enough evidence from specimens across the armadillos range to back it up...
https://www.iflscience.com/turns-out-texas-state-small-mammal-is-actually-4-different-species-74859
At least until now, nine-banded armadillos were considered to be the most widespread of all the armadillo species, with a range that saw them all the way from Argentina up into the center of the US.
Thats a pretty impressive range but one that had doubt cast upon it when some scientists began to propose that the nine-banded armadillo was in fact a complex of species.
One of those scientists was Frédéric Delsuc, a research director at the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) in France, who started to suspect a split within the nine-banded species back in the late 1990s, but didnt have enough evidence from specimens across the armadillos range to back it up...
https://www.iflscience.com/turns-out-texas-state-small-mammal-is-actually-4-different-species-74859
This report opens with wondering how the nine-banded armadillo became the Texas State Mammal. Well, simple: in 1995 elementary school children voted for it to be!
Wellsomeever, the vote for State Mammal it ended in a plumb dead heat between the Dillo and the Longhorn.
In one of the last reasonable actions of a Texas State Legislature a law was passed giving Texas *two* State Mammals: Small (the nine-banded dillo) and Large (the longhorn).
Since it is awkward, in the current political climate, for our State Mammal to be Mexican, now that the nine-banded dillo has been replaced apparently the jackalope has been returning to its historic range and so I propose that the jackalope be the new Texas State Small Mammal.
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Intrusive Frogeater Destroys Lone Star's State Mammal: The Nine-Banded Dillo, Leaving None Remaining in Texas! (Original Post)
SorellaLaBefana
Jul 2
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CCExile
(511 posts)1. You can have my nine banded armadillo...
When you peel it...wait, ...never mind. Viva a Blue Tejas!
OldBaldy1701E
(5,718 posts)2. Hahahaha!