Parents take care of pups by teaching them to find food and other basic survival skills. To get across a river armadillos will swim. Sometimes they will hold their breath and walk on the bottom. When the river is really wide armadillos will swallow air and float across. A few burps and passes of gas and the armadillo will be back to normal.
Some armadillos have something called bands.
Bands help them stretch and twist sort of like an accordion. Names of certain armadillos tell how many band they have, such as the 3 and 6-banded armadillos. We didn't find a lot, if any, information on hairy and long-nosed armadillos. If we had more time to work we would have looked further and found more information on the hairy and long-nosed armadillos. We also would have gone to different libraries.