The Very Real, and Very Elusive, Pink Fairy Armadillo

Better Than Human

The Pink Fairy Armadillo is, in fact, a real animal, but it is elusive enough to be considered mythical. The pink fairy armadillo (Chlamyphorus truncatus) is the smallest species of armadillo, and it is known as ‘the sand swimmer’ because they look like they are literally swimming through the sand. This animal is so rare in the wild and does so poorly in captivity that locals say, "you can track down any animal — except the pink fairy armadillo.”
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Don’t plan a trip to the zoo to see a Pink Fairy Armadillo, individuals caught in the wild normally die during transport or within a couple days of arriving at their captive facilities. They literally die from stress over a change in location. Don’t plan to see them in the wild either. The Pink fairy armadillos are so rare that the person who has seen the most of them in the wild has only seen 12 in the last 45 years.
Are Pink Fairy Armadillos endangered? Probably, but we don’t have enough information on their populations to know for sure.
What do we know about Pink Fairy Armadillos? Listen now to find out.
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