# Do Armadillos Bark?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [April 18, 2005, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-armadillos-bark/299885 "2005-04-18T14:06:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![flapcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7993a0/32.png) [@flapcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flapcats)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2005, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-armadillos-bark/299885/1 "2005-04-18T14:06:57Z")

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We’re trying to find out what noise an armadillo makes.

Does it bark?

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**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2005, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-armadillos-bark/299885/2 "2005-04-18T14:24:49Z")

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I think most Texans would say that the sound an armadillo makes is “Crunch.”

(d,g&r)

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**Author:** ![Gary\_Robson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gary_robson/32/3448_2.png) [@Gary\_Robson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Robson)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2005, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-armadillos-bark/299885/3 "2005-04-18T19:00:05Z")

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Q: Why did the chicken cross the road?  
A: To prove to the armadillo that it could be done!

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**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2005, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-armadillos-bark/299885/4 "2005-04-18T20:18:30Z")

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I’ve never heard an armadillo make any noise at all except maybe some very low snuffling and grunting. They’re pretty quiet.

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**Author:** ![Scott\_Plaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Scott\_Plaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scott_Plaid)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2005, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-armadillos-bark/299885/5 "2005-04-18T21:04:12Z")

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::Giggle, snort::

They grunt, and make “armadillo-ish sounds”, according to [Armadillo Online](http://www.msu.edu/~nixonjos/armadillo/index.html). Also,

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> Armadillos make grunting sounds as they forage for food. They also may squeak or squeal when they feel threatened. The [screaming hairy armadillo](http://www.msu.edu/~nixonjos/armadillo/chaetophractus.html#vellerosus) is especially known for the loud squeals it makes.

It’s kinda cute, actually.

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**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2005, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-armadillos-bark/299885/6 "2005-04-18T21:09:46Z")

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Before anybody reading this thread gets any strange ideas, remember that many armadillos are carriers of leprosy.

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**Author:** ![Scott\_Plaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Scott\_Plaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scott_Plaid)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2005, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-armadillos-bark/299885/7 "2005-04-18T21:13:22Z")

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Yes, so don’t eat them undercooked. 😃

(But seriously, according to the Zoologist whose page I linked too, that’s the only way you can get it from them.)

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**Author:** ![cher3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@cher3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cher3)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2005, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-armadillos-bark/299885/8 "2005-04-18T21:48:59Z")

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Screaming Hairy Armadillo is either a band name or the name of the protagonist of a rather strange series of children’s books. Sort of an anti-Arthur.

Or both.

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**Author:** ![Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freddy_the_Pig)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2005, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-armadillos-bark/299885/9 "2005-04-18T23:28:06Z")

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Is it true that an armadillo’s grunt will not echo?