🐾Giant armadillo
The giant armadillo, colloquially tatu-canastra, tatou, ocarro or tatú carreta, is the largest living species of armadillo. It lives in South America, ranging throughout as far south as northern Argentina. This species is considered vulnerable to extinction.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2025.
- Body mass
- 45 kg
- Body length
- 0.94 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 15 years
Everything we know about the Giant armadillo
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass45 kgCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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Figures vary
- 33 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Body length0.94 mCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Maximum lifespan15 yearsCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 15 yearsAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Generation length5.42 yearsCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Age at maturity328 daysCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Gestation122 daysCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 122 daysAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Litter sizeabout 2COMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 1.5AnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Trophic levelCarnivoreCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Activity cycleNocturnalCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Home range3.19 km²COMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Population density1.6 per km²COMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l45 LaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.
average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.
Not recorded for Giant armadillo yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classMammalia
- ›orderCingulata
- ›familyDasypodidae
- ›genusPriodontes
- ›speciesPriodontes maximus
- classMammals · Mammalia
- orderCingulata
- familyChlamyphoridae
- genusPriodontes
All 12 branches ↓Fewer branches ↑
- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- classMammals · Mammalia
- subclassTheria
- orderCingulata
- familyChlamyphoridae
- genusPriodontes
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