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Holocene Interglacial Migrations of Mammals and Other Vettebrates

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

C.Bertrand Schultz*
Affiliation:
University of Nebraska State Museum, Lincoln, Nebraska 68508 USA.

Abstract

The nine-banded armadillos (Dasypus novemcinctus) have been moving northward in the Great Plains region from the late 1800s to the 1950s but now seem to be retreating from their lately acquired northern range. The armadillos have a nontypical homoiothermic blood system which makes them fairly vulnerable to cold climates. Many other adjustments of animal ranges have taken place in the Holocene, even during the past few centuries and evidence indicates that in many cases climate changes played an important role.

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Original Articles
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Academic Press, Inc.

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