Climate change means you could see more
armadillos in North Carolina
WRAL-TV [Raleigh NC],
by
Maggie Brown
Original Article
Posted By: NorthernDog,
1/9/2022 9:26:51 AM
ZEBULON, N.C. — Over the past couple years, there has been an increase in armadillo sightings across the Carolinas, and officials with the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission says it's due to climate change. Armadillos have been spotted in 23 counties across North Carolina, including Wake and Durham. Since 2007, there have been as many as 30 sightings of armadillos in Wake County. Greg Batts, an N.C. Wildlife biologist in Zebulon, said he documented two armadillos on the N.C. Highway 55 widening project in August in 2020. One had been run over by a car and another had a den near
I like armadillos... I like them a lot more than I do illegal aliens that become freeloaders and breed sows.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
GardenGal 1/9/2022 9:34:57 AM (No. 1032965)
They do. It has nothing to do with climate change. First of all, the climate always changes- some cycles are decades-long, come centuries-long, some are multi-thousand years long, some are hundreds of thousands of years long, etc. Secondly, armadillos have been slowly expanding their range in the US naturally. No one imported them. They just are slowly migrating north while still having large populations in the south.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
franq 1/9/2022 9:42:07 AM (No. 1032970)
Attack of the Armadillos
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
hisself 1/9/2022 9:42:42 AM (No. 1032971)
Bull Schiff!!
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Historybuff 1/9/2022 9:44:50 AM (No. 1032975)
Maggie Brown declares that the earth was finished when she got here!
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Heil Liberals 1/9/2022 9:44:56 AM (No. 1032976)
Bridges across the Mississippi River is more likely why.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
valinva 1/9/2022 10:02:28 AM (No. 1032987)
Armadillos are common in TN and have been ever since the first pair was able to get across the MS River. It has nothing to do with "climate change" TN and NC share a border. It is inevitable that they will move into new territory. Armadillos diet is 90% insects and their larvae. Maybe NC can completely eliminate insects from the state to prevent the dreaded armadillo from coming there?
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Vesicant 1/9/2022 10:03:27 AM (No. 1032988)
Armadillogeddon -- 30 of them! Count them -- 30 in 14 years! Run for your lives!
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
MaryPA 1/9/2022 10:13:34 AM (No. 1032996)
I see no indication that climate change is affecting our country negatively. Most of us like warmer days; come to PA when the temperatures are frigid and the wind is blowing and you'll appreciate the climate change. We are blessed with ways to cool us but this will not be so if they implement only solar panels and wind turbines as our only energy!
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
mc squared 1/9/2022 10:26:53 AM (No. 1033007)
I knew this would happen because I read 'The Onion'
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
czechlist 1/9/2022 10:31:52 AM (No. 1033014)
The story alludes to the primary cause of all recent species migration - disruption and destruction of their natural habitat by humans seeking to isolate themselves from their own species.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 1/9/2022 10:31:59 AM (No. 1033015)
Hundreds of them. Thousands! Traveling along back roads. On the shoulder. Only at night. All heading in an easterly direction.
The Great Armadillo Migration has begun.
Drive slowly! Save an armadillo, and your vehicle's suspension.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Hazymac 1/9/2022 10:35:44 AM (No. 1033019)
Possum on the half shell. There's no shortage of them in Florida, but most of them you actually see are dead. Roadkill slain by the wheel. I got a huge laugh from Jesper Parnevik (in the mid-'80s when he was playing on the Florida Tour, who saw something he never expected to see: a live armadillo on the golf course in Kissimmee. He thought they were all dead. For the man who has everything, in my library upstairs there is a small lift top can of roadkill armadillo, guaranteed not to contain over 10% gravel. The most valuable object in the household, it's been sitting there for thirty years undisturbed. It would really bum me out if it were not real. So like Pelosi, I ain't looking.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
wilarrbie 1/9/2022 10:38:47 AM (No. 1033020)
Perhaps they’re evolving and adapting to the colder climates they migrate to.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Thos Weatherby 1/9/2022 10:42:33 AM (No. 1033025)
First as other areas grow in population the animals move or migrate. This has been going on for millennia. Some animals are attracted to the new habitats naturally. More food, easier water and better shelter. Climate Change is a hoax. Latest NASA study claims the last 14 years have actually cooled. I have a new vaccine and booster for Global Warming believers.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
homefry 1/9/2022 10:48:25 AM (No. 1033028)
Armadillos huh? I remember very well when you didnt see deer in Anson county nc. Or turkeys. COYOTES. I even remember when there were no racoons.The wildlife people claim there are no cougars, but very reliable people have seen them.
So, armadillos? OK.
I wonder if there were any here 12000 years ago when we were UNDER AN ICE SHEET? Global warming melted that down, wonder if them industrious Covid point chippers caused that?
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
GoodDeal 1/9/2022 10:51:13 AM (No. 1033030)
What garbage. Add this to the long list of articles claiming climate change could bring about the end of the natural world as we know it. It could mean more feral hogs in Texas as well. Where does it stop and when?
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
kennedylaw 1/9/2022 11:01:02 AM (No. 1033038)
Armadillos originated in South America. They have steadily migrated North ever since the end of the last ice age, first to Central America, then Mexico, then Texas, then the rest of the Southern U.S. Legend has it that the got their first foothold in Florida when a gas station owner caught a couple in Texas and put them in a pen outside as a tourist draw, but the quickly dug their way out. They have continued to expand their territory in the U.S. during the past century due to lack of natural predators.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
kennedylaw 1/9/2022 11:07:31 AM (No. 1033046)
During the Great Depression, people ate Armadillos, calling them "Hoover Hogs." If people start resorting to eating Armadillos again because of the Biden meat shortages we should call them "Biden Burgers."
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
justavoter 1/9/2022 11:07:32 AM (No. 1033047)
The climate has been changing for billions of years and will continue to change for the next billion years. Our job as humans and any other species is to adapt or die. Raising taxes will not have any influence on what Mother Nature decides.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Skinnydip 1/9/2022 11:10:35 AM (No. 1033052)
I like armadillos. The more the merrier.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
bigfatslob 1/9/2022 11:11:52 AM (No. 1033054)
Armadillos gotta do what armadillos gotta do, travel the roads like hitch hiking blues men. Always in search of softer ground to dig into no rocky areas for them. I would guess the eastward migration is due to all the foot pounding at the southern border from the invaders into Texas it disturbs their hunting grounds it's like herding cattle to move on a drive. It's nature not climate that moves them. FGW
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Filpops 1/9/2022 11:16:34 AM (No. 1033060)
Some armadillos are naturally infected with leprosy, and armadillos are the only other animal besides humans to host the leprosy bacillus, according to Smithsonian Magazine. Still think they’re cute?
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 1/9/2022 11:21:48 AM (No. 1033066)
I have a bit of experience with climate change, aka weather. Six inches of show just turned into 3 feet of runoff in the overflowing rain gully in our neighborhood. ''January's ice and snow, make your toes and fingers glow.'' Flanders and Swann, 1959.
Instead of changing the climate, I'll ride it out and stay indoors.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
Ida Lou Pino 1/9/2022 11:27:14 AM (No. 1033075)
They once laughed at Criswell - - when he predicted ticks in Tennessee.
As it turns out - - Criswell was decades before his time. Armadillos in North Carolina is just an offshoot of his amazing prescience.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
MindMadeUp 1/9/2022 11:27:21 AM (No. 1033076)
A reduction in armadillo sightings would also be considered a sign of climate change...
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
privateer 1/9/2022 11:28:47 AM (No. 1033078)
The 'Swarmadillos' crossing our southern border are infected with leprosy as well as other diseases. And as for eating armadillos, since they come wrapped in a shell, how about Biden Burritos. I suppose Biden Tacos would be more accurate.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
earlybird 1/9/2022 11:31:54 AM (No. 1033082)
The goofiness continues. Get this - after giving stats for several years:
Officials have not yet updated the number of total armadillo sightings in 2021, but said sightings have increased even more.
So they have no real clue. Weather can come in several year batches. Then it can suddenly change. That is not “climate change” - and what these zealots really mean when they say “climate change” is that humans caused it. Rubbish.
Some fool probably brought some armadillos into the Carolinas and they have been multiplying. Sounds as though the cure is on the highways.
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armadillo - opossum on the half shell
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
Edgelady 1/9/2022 11:44:51 AM (No. 1033089)
People are stupid.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
Norway 1/9/2022 11:52:35 AM (No. 1033104)
When in Earth's history has the climate *Not* changed? (crickets....crickets...)
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
udanja99 1/9/2022 11:53:11 AM (No. 1033106)
Armadillos are common here in South Carolina too. Our two very curious greyhounds tried to get friendly with one but it hissed at them and ran for cover. They were all over Florida too when I was growing up there in the 50’s and 60’s.
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
lakerman1 1/9/2022 12:06:08 PM (No. 1033122)
I thought squished on the highway was their normal condition.
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
Strike3 1/9/2022 12:14:02 PM (No. 1033130)
Armadillos are harmless unless you run over one with a motorcycle. It's the migrants from New York City that should cause concern. If you've already called Greta, it's okay, she hasn't had a good trip in a while.
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
Madinmaryland 1/9/2022 12:16:05 PM (No. 1033132)
So more armadillos means I have to drive an electric vehicle, get solar panels and allow windmills in my area? Uh, no. Most armadillos I’ve seen have been road kill.
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
Californian 1/9/2022 12:29:10 PM (No. 1033138)
I sneezed yesterday. Global warming. What else could it possibly be??
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Reply 37 - Posted by:
Jesuslover54 1/9/2022 12:59:48 PM (No. 1033156)
What's the subtext here -- I'm supposed to fear armadillos, the invasion of armadillos? Gimme a break.
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Reply 38 - Posted by:
Highlander 1/9/2022 1:22:45 PM (No. 1033174)
My Texas brother-in-law told me that so many road kills are armadillos that people think they are actually born dead. :)
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Reply 39 - Posted by:
anniebc 1/9/2022 1:23:23 PM (No. 1033175)
Even the armadillos have sense enough to flee leftist states. I'll take a mass migration of armadillos over leftists any day of the week.
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Reply 40 - Posted by:
Bogasso 1/9/2022 1:25:26 PM (No. 1033176)
It’s just how the Armadillo do. They wander. And they dig profusely.
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Reply 41 - Posted by:
JackBurton 1/9/2022 1:29:22 PM (No. 1033180)
I was going to make a joke by posing the question: Why did the armadillo cross the road?
But, of course, the answer is: Global Warming.
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Reply 42 - Posted by:
DVC 1/9/2022 1:51:32 PM (No. 1033202)
Well, they are good eating, although a bit of a challenge to skin. I used to hunt them in Florida, and my mother would bake them whole, fill the body cavity with stuffing like a turkey, cover with foil and bake. Excellent meat.
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Reply 43 - Posted by:
IowaMarinesDad 1/9/2022 1:56:45 PM (No. 1033208)
Actually 41, the joke here in Iowa goes - Why did the chicken cross the road ?? To prove to the coon and possum that it can be done. It sounds like it would apply to armadillos also !!
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Reply 44 - Posted by:
navybrat 1/9/2022 2:01:17 PM (No. 1033210)
The armadillos are leaving Florida due to the influx of people from New York and California.
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Reply 45 - Posted by:
Geoman 1/9/2022 2:23:53 PM (No. 1033233)
Beware North Carolinians; I've observed the ravages of killer armadillos and their beta variants in Texas for a little over six decades. Aside from destroying entire middle class suburbs, they will devour small children and family poodles; plus, they have been known to breed with feral hogs, as they are randy little buggers, which pushes their population and associated ravages to pandemic levels. Caution: If you shoot one, they can jump six feet in the air and then split in two once they hit the ground. FJB is leading an armored rat inoculation development effort, which involves outlawing internal combustion engines within 6 months to stop the spread and flatten the curve. It's for the chirren, doncha know.
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Reply 46 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 1/9/2022 2:38:21 PM (No. 1033248)
Register those armadillos to vote!
Armadillos are notorious Constitutional Conservative Nationalists don'tcha know.
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Reply 47 - Posted by:
hershey 1/9/2022 3:01:24 PM (No. 1033270)
Since 2007 there have been 30 sightings? This is an invasion? This is an increase? That works out to TWO per year...com'on people, lets get real...a population of 1,129,410 857 sq mi and this much area? I looked on cooks.com and only found recipes for Armadillo Eggs, which are apparently jalapeno poppers...lol
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Reply 48 - Posted by:
DVC 1/9/2022 4:55:00 PM (No. 1033329)
Re #47. They are a bit unusual in their meat. One end, IIRC, the front legs is a dark red meat similar to beef, while the other end, IIRC, the rear legs, are a white meat, more reminscent of pork. Baked on their back, whole, body cavity filled with turkey stuffing, and covered with foil, they are good eating, with two very different kinds of meat.
We tried about everything when we were kids, and my sainted mother would go ahead and cook up whatever we brought home. Racoon was not repeated, not good, but we all agreed that armadillo was well worth shooting, easily as good or better than rabbit and IMO, better than squirrel, which is pretty good, too. We were warned off of opossum by our black neighbors.....said that it stunk badly when cooking, and you had to be really desperate to eat 'possum. We took their word for it, never tried.
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I've seen an armadillo purse (cute but ms squirrel would not be amused). As for #44, the migration from Florida was known as the 'Trail of Fears'
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Probably Democrats putting them on planes, flying them in at night, giving them handouts and hoping they will vote Democrat.
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Reply 51 - Posted by:
mifla 1/10/2022 5:09:52 AM (No. 1033683)
So the next cold snap will wipe them out?
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Reply 52 - Posted by:
AntiStatist 1/10/2022 11:43:40 AM (No. 1034004)
Armadillos and coyotes- used to never see them unless you were west of the Mississippi River. Now they're regularly seen on the east coast.
But it's not because of "climate change".
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