Six-Banded Armadillos are native to South American grasslands, forestsand savannahs. Armadillos are excellent diggers, digging U-shaped burrows with a single opening, often in the search for food. Armadillos are omnivores, with their diet primarily consisting of insects and small invertebrates, but also including anything else they can find like plants and carrion.

 

An armadillos carapace is made of bony plates called the osteoderm, covered in overlapping scales called scutes, made of keratin. Unlike other armadillos, Six-Banded Armadillos cannot roll up into a ball.