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Baby Giant Armadillo Caught on Camera for the First Time in the Peruvian Rainforest

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Researchers from Amazon Research International placed a trail camera in the Native Community of San Francisco in Loreto and captured rare footage of a baby giant armadillo—a once-in-a-lifetime sighting, as some researchers spend years with hundreds of cameras trying to capture this animal.

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