Their diet includes mainly ants and termites, but they will also eat mollusks, worms, fruit, and carrion.

These armadillos are carnivores (insectivores). They feed on different species of insects, typically ants and termites. Diet Carnivore, Insectivores, ...

Their primary diet consists of beetle larvae, ants, and termites, but they will also occasionally snack on ripe fruit. Although mostly solitary, three-banded ...

Southern three-banded armadillo. Tolypeutes matacus. Reproduction: Gives birth to a single young per litter and per year. Weight: 1–2 kg. Diet: ...

The Brazilian three-banded armadillo (Tolypeutes tricinctus) is an armadillo ... Diet. edit. The main staples of its diet are ants and termites, which it can ...

At the Smithsonian's National Zoo, La Plata three-banded armadillos are fed soaked insectivore diet and mealworms.

22 окт. 2024 г. · Food items consisted of 70% invertebrates, 20% plant material (mainly fruits), and 10% unidentified material. The occurrence of different items ...

They then have a long, sticky, straw-like pink tongue that allows it to gather up and eat many different species of insects, most commonly ants and termites.

Based on the results of this study, we confirm that the three-banded armadillo is an opportunistic insectivore and not a specialist. Key words: Tolypeutes ...