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Speaker 1: You are so fired up about these armadillos, and I don't.

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Speaker 1: I don't. I don't get why, but I'm I'm game

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Speaker 1: to hear about it.

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Speaker 2: Well, I'm curious, have you ever seen an armadillo in Indiana? Well,

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Speaker 2: not in the Sariate from here, You've lived here forever.

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Speaker 1: Like like you're some foreigner who just jetted in. No,

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Speaker 1: I can't say that. I have no full disclosure. I've

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Speaker 1: never I've never looked real careful. Sure, they're generally associated

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Speaker 1: with like Texas, right right, Yeah, But you're telling me

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Speaker 1: now they're somehow a swarm of armadillos that have packed

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Speaker 1: their bags and traveled halfway across the country to the

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Speaker 1: great state of Indiana. I'm not telling you. This guy

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Speaker 1: is telling you.

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Speaker 2: So.

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Speaker 3: I lived in Indiana my entire life, and last night

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Speaker 3: I found out that Indiana has armadillos. Does anybody out

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Speaker 3: there live in Indiana? Have they ever seen an armadillo? I mean,

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Speaker 3: I thought armadillos were only in Texas or in that

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Speaker 3: area of the country.

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Speaker 1: So if anybody has.

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Speaker 3: An in information on armadillo's, I mean, are they safe?

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Speaker 3: I mean it sounds like they're invading the north, right now,

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Speaker 3: so these little critters kind of make me nervous, let

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Speaker 3: me know.

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Speaker 2: Okay. So, and now you've got Fox fifty nine reporting

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Speaker 2: the armadillos are now breeding in Indiana.

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Speaker 1: So what do we know about them? Are they dangerous?

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Speaker 1: Can I go in pet one? I don't know.

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Speaker 2: I don't know anything about an armadillo either.

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Speaker 1: You had you had, you had an entire weekend to

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Speaker 1: look this up, and you didn't put in Google our

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Speaker 1: arm armadillo's dangers. I'll know it right now.

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Speaker 2: I did.

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Speaker 1: Not are armeddillo's dangerous? Oh it was the second one.

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Speaker 1: It was our armadillo's, our armadillo's native to Indiana, and

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Speaker 1: then our armadillo is dangerous armadillo's This is AI Okay, Well,

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Speaker 1: of course.

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Speaker 2: You've got a data center helping you out somewhere.

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Speaker 1: Armadillos. Are you see what you did there, that's very

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Speaker 1: well done. Armudyls are not inherently dangerous animals, but it's

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Speaker 1: important to approach them with caution, according to Critter Control.

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Speaker 2: Okay, So, the first recording of armadilla's in Indiana happened

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Speaker 2: in Gibson County in two thousand and three, but in

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Speaker 2: the past decade, eleven different detections have been recorded in

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Speaker 2: nine different counties. Oh, this is totally like just there's

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Speaker 2: been seventy four armadillo sidings, Rob Casey.

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Speaker 1: This is totally like dealing with my toddler. While generally

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Speaker 1: not aggressive, they may bite or scratch if they feel

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Speaker 1: cornered or threatened.

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Speaker 2: So if an armadillo takes a hair brush and wants

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Speaker 2: to walk around with the hairbrush, just let the armadillo.

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Speaker 1: Have the hair brush. Yes, it's avoid direct contact and

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Speaker 1: admire them from afar.

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Speaker 2: So sightings have occurred as far north as Porter County,

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Speaker 2: near the Michigan border, and there I guess frequently found

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Speaker 2: in southwestern Indiana.

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Speaker 1: Oh that's uh. Now. One of the things, I have

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Speaker 1: a couple of neighbors who aren't I have many wonderful neighbors,

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Speaker 1: but have a couple neighbors they're they're how many houses

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Speaker 1: down for me, but close enough to where I don't

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Speaker 1: think they always maintain their yards in a manner that

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Speaker 1: a thriving suburban community should find acceptable. And so there

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Speaker 1: are some level of rodent that will venture from their properties.

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Speaker 1: I don't know what it is. What I do know is,

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Speaker 1: you know I got the big lights that if you

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Speaker 1: come on and you know, the blah blah blah blah

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Speaker 1: blah right right right, yeah, and uh, last night I

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Speaker 1: think there was one of those little varmints on the

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Speaker 1: property because on multiple occasions, and what I do when

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Speaker 1: the light goes out is I just pull a Diego

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Speaker 1: Morales and I'm behind a closed door, shout who's there?

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Speaker 1: For those of you who don't know what we're referencing,

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Speaker 1: is was it? Was it? Kayla Dwyer from the Indie Star.

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Speaker 1: She went into the State House at five point forty

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Speaker 1: five in the morning to try to see if Diego

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Speaker 1: Morales was actually as he said, at his office, and

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Speaker 1: it turns out he was there. However, he refused to

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Speaker 1: come out from behind the closed door, sort of like

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Speaker 1: the Wizard of Oz.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so I guess. Armadillos they feed on insects, primarily

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Speaker 2: beetles and ants. And there's a report of mammal Form

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Speaker 2: that you can fill out. What Yes, Indiana residents are

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Speaker 2: asked to submit a report to Mammal Form with photos

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Speaker 2: to help the experts assess the age, the sex, and

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Speaker 2: the range of sightings of armadillos in Indiana. They're spreading

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Speaker 2: naturally here, and do you know where they're migrating from? Wait?

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Speaker 1: Wait, wait back out. First of all, you know, like

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Speaker 1: I view the world as if you're doing something that

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Speaker 1: doesn't harm me for the most part, right or harm

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Speaker 1: other people, I just leave you alone, right, you leave

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Speaker 1: me alone. I leave you alone. You live your life.

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Speaker 1: I live mine. Doesn't mean I'm not going to maybe

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Speaker 1: judge how you're living your life, but as long as

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Speaker 1: you I'm not taking any action on that. And I

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Speaker 1: kind of feel the same way with these animals. If

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Speaker 1: they're not harming me, if they're maintaining a proper distance,

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Speaker 1: if they're not being aggressive, why would I alert some

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Speaker 1: sort of authority where they are so they can be pestered? Well,

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Speaker 1: I don't know. If they're holding up their anti pestering

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Speaker 1: end of the bargain, why would I sell them out?

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Speaker 1: For lack of a better term, I don't know.

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Speaker 2: Are they hurting Indiana's crops for some reason?

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Speaker 1: I Mean, it says right here that they're generally Armidels

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Speaker 1: are known to carry diseases they do, like leprosy, but

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Speaker 1: again and rarely rabies. However, again, it's saying that they're

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Speaker 1: generally not aggressive animals. It sort of sounds like if

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Speaker 1: you leave them alone, they'll leave you alone. And if

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Speaker 1: everyone's keeping their proper distance, what incentive do I have?

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Speaker 3: Live?

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Speaker 1: And let live tell some person who's going to come

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Speaker 1: after these people in some capacity.

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Speaker 2: So the DNR emphasizes the importance of continued reports to

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Speaker 2: monitor armadillo distribution movements and interactions with native species. They

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Speaker 2: are migrating two India from southeastern Illinois.

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Speaker 1: That's your morning army deliver. So they're just on a venture.

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Speaker 1: They're migrating. They're leaving ours. Is that what you said?

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Speaker 1: They're migrating.

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Speaker 2: They're migrating to Indiana from southeastern Illinois.

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Speaker 1: Maybe they're going somewhere else.

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Speaker 2: They're just on their way.

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Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying, is to stop on the long

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Speaker 1: bro I thought we were. Who's your hospitality? We're supposed

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Speaker 1: to be very welcoming y