Global Warming?

I don't profess to know much about anything real or imagined, but here is what I do know without a shadow of a doubt. I have been going down around the Lake of the Ozarks for over thirty years now, and the one thing that has been more than blatantly obvious is the fact that the armadillo has begun a more than subtle push northward. Upward from it's more southern climates of the southwest and the deep southern states. Until around ten years ago the only place I ever encountered these opossums on the half shell was south of Springfield, Mo.

What gives? Could it be that the little critter has finally morphed to the point that it can tolerate, and even survive a colder climate? How can it do that when its primary diet is insects / bugs, grubs and other little invertebrates? I understand during our milder winters that it could be possible for the insects to remain realitivily active, but how does this explain how they ( the armadillo ) can survive the two to three weeks every winter when we get the Alberta clippers, that blow in artic air, and freezes everything solid enough that kids can ice skate on the area lakes? Have they developed the ability to somehow go into a sort of suedo hibernation? If this is true.... then we as humans have probably just witnessed one of the most amazing feats in nature that happened so effortlessly that we didn't even notice. And we consider ourselves the developed ones......shoot we can't even take care of our own young in the richest country in the world! Go figure !! p.s these photos were taken in Climax Springs, Mo. by yours truly,... in January 2008. I have also witnessed dead Armadllo's on 50 Hwy. in Lee's Summit MO.

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