Here's a three minute video of a family of four armadillos who launched a surprise attack upon our house in the middle of a summer afternoon.
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We've met many armadillos on winter walks in the woods near our home in north central Florida USA.
The winter is the best time to see armadillos because the summer days here are too hot for them. In the summer they usually stay in their burros during the day, and come out at night to feed.
It's pretty easy to get close to armadillos in the woodsin the winter because they are usually so intent on feeding, with their heads buried under the leaves, that they don't see you until you are right on top of them. Alert is not a word one would normally associate with the armadillo.
If you stand quietly on the trail, sometimes they will walk right up to you, and not see you until they are so close you could bend over and pick them up.
So it seemed it would be easy to get some video of armadillos.
But it was not to be.
We dragged video camera gear for miles and miles and miles up and down trails all over Florida while filming for our nature video site Nature-Video-For-You.com.
In all this time, the armadillos never seemed to appear while we were carrying the video camera.
Finally we got fed up with our epic search for armadillo video, and sent the dillos a rude letter from our attorney stating that if this is how you're gonna be, you can forget about being famous on the Internet. Ha, so there!
And then one day, in the middle of a boiling hot summer afternoon, when all good dillos should have been fast asleep in their burros....
...Here comes a small army of four dillos marching right across our front yard, lined up one after another like a column of tanks.
We sprang in to action so fast we forgot to grab the tripod.
Whoops....
Um, well, remember, the pogo stick effect is a popular special effect used in many blockbuster Hollywood movies?
The video above records the moment our video camera finally got to meet the local dillos in person.
