Why Didn't the Armadillo Cross the Road?

The reason we see so many of them dead on the highways.

Why Didn’t the Armadillo Cross the Road?

 

By Elton Camp

 

We see them on the highway dead as a doornail

Despite a suit or armor over all but head & tail

Is it because they’re stupid or are they just slow

That so many deaths by cars armadillos undergo?

 

It is because they have such a strange survival skill

It works well in the woods, but on roads will kill

When its natural predator happens to come around,

All its legs go down and shoot it high off the ground

 

So that whatever enemy of the armadillo stands there

Will quickly run away because it got a frightful scare

But in the event a speeding car, the armadillo is atop

It hits the bottom of the car when it tries its usual hop

 

Take note if you are the operator of a road-kill café

From armadillo and its meat you better stay well away

A small percentage of them, the germ of leprosy carry

So as to carving them up for food, you should be wary