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Southern three-banded armadillo, the Glossary

The southern three-banded armadillo (Tolypeutes matacus), also known as La Plata three-banded armadillo or Azara's domed armadillo, is an armadillo species from South America.^[1]

Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest

Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest (6 March 1784 – 4 June 1838) was a French zoologist and author.

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Ant

Ants are eusocial insects of the family Formicidae and, along with the related wasps and bees, belong to the order Hymenoptera.

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Argentina

Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic, is a country in the southern half of South America.

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Armadillo

Armadillos (little armored ones) are New World placental mammals in the order Cingulata. Southern three-banded armadillo and Armadillo are armadillos.

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Bolivia

Bolivia, officially the Plurinational State of Bolivia, is a landlocked country located in western-central South America.

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Brazil

Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, is the largest and easternmost country in South America and Latin America.

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Brazilian three-banded armadillo

The Brazilian three-banded armadillo (Tolypeutes tricinctus) is an armadillo species endemic to eastern Brazil, where it is known as tatu-bola (lit. ball armadillo). Southern three-banded armadillo and Brazilian three-banded armadillo are armadillos, mammals of Brazil and Myrmecophagous mammals.

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Fossorial

A fossorial animal is one that is adapted to digging and which lives primarily (but not solely) underground.

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Giant anteater

The giant anteater (Myrmecophaga tridactyla) is an insectivorous mammal native to Central and South America. Southern three-banded armadillo and giant anteater are mammals of Argentina, mammals of Bolivia, mammals of Brazil and mammals of Paraguay.

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Gran Chaco

The Gran Chaco or Dry Chaco is a sparsely populated, hot and semiarid lowland tropical dry broadleaf forest natural region of the Río de la Plata basin, divided among eastern Bolivia, western Paraguay, northern Argentina, and a portion of the Brazilian states of Mato Grosso and Mato Grosso do Sul, where it is connected with the Pantanal region.

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Habitat destruction

Habitat destruction (also termed habitat loss and habitat reduction) occurs when a natural habitat is no longer able to support its native species.

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Keratin

Keratin is one of a family of structural fibrous proteins also known as scleroproteins.

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Paraguay

Paraguay, officially the Republic of Paraguay (República del Paraguay; Paraguái Tavakuairetã), is a landlocked country in South America.

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South America

South America is a continent entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a considerably smaller portion in the Northern Hemisphere.

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Termite

Termites are a group of detritophagous eusocial insects which consume a wide variety of decaying plant material, generally in the form of wood, leaf litter, and soil humus.

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Volvation

Volvation (from Latin volvere "roll", and the suffix -(a)tion; sometimes called enrolment or conglobation), is a defensive behavior in certain animals, in which the animal rolls its own body into a ball, presenting only the hardest parts of its integument (the animal's "armor"), or its spines to predators.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_three-banded_armadillo

Also known as Azara's domed armadillo, Tolypeutes matacus.