{"id":10583,"date":"2022-06-17T05:45:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-17T10:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/?p=10583"},"modified":"2024-09-09T11:29:57","modified_gmt":"2024-09-09T16:29:57","slug":"the-three-armadillo-amigos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2022\/06\/17\/the-three-armadillo-amigos\/","title":{"rendered":"The Three [Armadillo] Amigos"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Alert Gazette readers will remember this video <a href=\"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2021\/06\/02\/20210602-hawksandarmadillos\/\">I posted<\/a> about a year ago:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Armadillo Quadruplets\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fvoHPF03L7I?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Four of a Kind<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>That video documented a chance encounter with four young armadillos (and as the zoologists and\/or Texans in the audience know perfectly well, the nine-banded armadillo mommy always gives birth to identical quadruplets) close to our house.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Well, fast forward twelve months, and what do I see rooting around in the adjacent vacant lot? Yep&#8230;<em>tres m\u00e1s armadillos<\/em>. The whereabouts of the fourth is a mystery; I suppose he or she was still in the burrow playing video games or tockticking as kids are wont to do nowadays.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was able to get even more up close and personal with these siblings, coming literally toe-to-nose with one of them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Up close &amp; personal with young armadillos\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UTXPgKXrL_k?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Los Tres Amigos Armadillos<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I won&#8217;t be surprised if I have another encounter with one or more of these critters, but it will likely be trap-related, IYKWIM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Young armadillos are fun to watch, as long as they&#8217;re not in your yard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10586,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,5,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-horseshoe-bay","category-nature","category-wildlife-mammals","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/threearmadillos.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10583"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14074,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10583\/revisions\/14074"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}