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Cincinnati Zoo on Twitter: "The armadillo lizard might look more like a Pokémon character than a lizard at the Cincinnati Zoo! When danger is near, they turn into a ball by rolling
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Armadillo Lizard (Cordylus cataphractus) biting its own tail while trying to roll into a defensive ball, captive, from South Africa
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