The nine-banded armadillo (Dasypus novemcinctus) has become a recent addition to the local fauna of Illinois as response habitat alteration and climate change. This range expansion resulted in presence armadillos areas not predicted by earlier models. Although these models have been revised, continue move north reached heavy agricultural use. We identified conditions that favor potential corrid...

Armadillos of the species Dasypus novemcinctus have been used as an experimental model of leprosy. Besides non-human primates, they are the only species naturally infected with Mycobacterium leprae and when experimentally inoculated, reproduce the lepromatous form of the disease producing large quantities of bacilli. This species has been maintained in captivity by numerous researchers and spec...

The pituitary glands from female armadillos in various reproductive states were individually assayed for lh content by the oaad method of Parlow (1961). The glands from animals in the delayed implantation period contained significantly more lh than glands from the non-ovulated animals. Bilateral ovariectomy during the delayed implantation period resulted in an almost total depletion of pituitar...