The Illinois Department of Natural Resources received more than 400 reports in 24 hours earlier this year.
James Martin photographs a dead armadillo on a bridge near Murphysboro on April 19, 2022. Martin has been tracking armadillos around southern Illinois for several years.
The center of Illinois armadillo activity is Carbondale, and in the past 30 years, there have been only two credible reports of armadillos in Cook County . Generally associated with Central America and first established in the United States in the 1850s, it’s taken armadillos 170 years to settle into Illinois.
He’s an assistant professor and biologist focused on the relationship between parasites and animals, and in his office, the stress and irony are evident: We’re discussing armadillos while wearing masks due to a pandemic often associated with the mingling of animals, humans and disease.Armadillos can carry leprosy. They’re one of its few sources.
The door of his office now has a yellow “Armadillo Crossing” sign. At the back of the long room, otherwise cluttered with research papers and data sheets, there is a small shrine of sorts to the creature — figurines, sent to him by his mother and family members, by friends, some just by fans of his research.Armadillo spotted on Potters Road.The Illinois DNR gets the occasional sighting of a cougar or a black bear or even an elk in the state, often just passing through.
“We tend to gloss over the biological implications of climate change, and the armadillo in the Midwest is a perfect example of that overall shift,” said Thor Hanson, a Washington state biologist and author of “Hurricane Lizards and Plastic Squid: The Fraught and Fascinating Biology of Climate Change.” “Estimates now are that 25% to 85% of all species of plants and animals in the natural world are shifting their ranges in response to the climate.
“Oh they love this,” he said, noting the tree cover, decomposing wood, soft ground for tunneling, even better for bugs. Still, he rarely sees an armadillo that’s not dead. He held a branch aside and stepped slowly: “We’d see them alive more often if they didn’t jump.” Armadillos, when surprised, can leap high into the air — straight up, like a Looney Toons character. Picture one nosing along a highway at night, a large truck comes along. Scared, it jumps ... straight into the undercarriage.
A kind of living metaphor for the approach of climate doom, albeit in an adorable, eccentric package.
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