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Longest-lived armadillo species

Longest-lived armadillo species
Who
La Plata three-banded armadillo
Where
Not Applicable
When
2005
The longest-lived species of armadillo is the La Plata three-banded armadillo Tolypeutes matacus. Native to northern Argentina, southwestern Brazil, Paraguay and Bolivia, a female specimen of this species with an estimated age of 3 years old was acquired by Lincoln Park Zoo, Chicago, Illinois, USA, in 1971, and died there in 2005, by which time it was 36.8 years old.