http://bss.sfsu.edu/geog/bholzman/courses/fall99projects/armadillo.htm:
"The armadillo's life span can range from four to seven years, but it has 
been known to survive up to ten in captivity. "
Cheers, Christine

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From: "Paul Stenquist" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> That would be great. I wonder how long they live. I dropped mine off
> 34 years ago.
> Paul
> On Feb 12, 2008, at 7:10 PM, Christine Aguila wrote:
>
>> Paul:  This is a great story!  I'll get you an armadillo shot from
>> the zoo.
>> Wouldn't it be cool if it was a descendant of yours truly?!  Cheers,
>> Christine
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Paul Stenquist" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>> Subject: Re: The Cushman Photos -- watching a photographer progress
>>
>>
>>> I've been to Lincoln Park Zoo a number of times, but don't remember
>>> the bear. When I was a kid, we most often went to Brookfield. They
>>> were about equidistant from the Southeast side.
>>>
>>> My best memory of Lincoln Park Zoo comes from the days when I worked
>>> on the race car. We were driving back from Miami with our truck and
>>> trailer one Sunday night and saw some armadillos poking around near
>>> the road. The guy who was driving decided to stop, and one of the
>>> guys,  who was a bit of a lunatic, jumped out and chased an
>>> armadillo. He caught him and put him in the truck, thinking we'd keep
>>> him in our shop as a pet. Well, when we got back to Chicago that
>>> Armadillo was very unhappy. Couldn't get him to eat. (Don't know why
>>> he didn't like cheeseburgers), and the cold was making him sluggish.
>>> So we decided to take him to Lincoln Park Zoo. After smoking a bit of
>>> weed. (The armadillo didn't like that any more than the
>>> cheeseburger.)
>>>
>>> At the zoo, we managed to find the administration building. We went
>>> into the office with the armadillo in a box and told the receptionist
>>> we wanted to donate an armadillo. Well, it seems the curator had been
>>> hoping to get an armadillo for some time. Just the day before they
>>> had tricked him with some kind of object made from an armadillo
>>> shell. They had wrapped a blanket around it and presented it to him.
>>> So, he of course assumed this was another trick and refused to come
>>> out to the reception area. So we took the armadillo out of the box.
>>> The office was quite warm and that seemed to please him. He (or she
>>> as the case may have been) began scampering around the office and the
>>> receptionist screamed. That got the curator out there. In short, he
>>> was thrilled. We lied and told him that the armadillo must have
>>> crawled into our trailer while we were racing. Since they're an
>>> endangered species, we didn't want to end up in the clink. He pointed
>>> out that armadillos are very timid and would never come near a
>>> trailer, but he wanted an armadillo bad enough that he didn't press
>>> the issue. So the armadillo moved into Lincoln Park Zoo, and we went
>>> back to our cold shop, cheeseburgers and weed.
>>>
>>> And that's my Lincoln Park Zoo story, the only one I have:-).
>>> Paul
>>>
>>>
>>> On Feb 11, 2008, at 8:25 PM, Christine Aguila wrote:
>>>
>>>> Paul:  Thanks for the link below.  I didn't get through all of
>>>> them, but
>>>> seeing the zoo shots made me think of something I hadn't thought of
>>>> in a
>>>> long time.  Coming from the south side, I don't know if you spent a
>>>> lot of
>>>> time at Lincoln Park zoo, but at LP zoo you used to be able to get
>>>> your
>>>> photograph taken while standing next to a stuffed medium sized
>>>> bear.  My
>>>> parents made this an annual ritual.  Somewhere, there are BW
>>>> photographs of
>>>> me & my sister sitting or standing next to this bear.  I have to
>>>> find those
>>>> photographs.  Sound familiar?
>>>> Anyway,  I love the circus & beach shots.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers, Christine
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>> Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 12:24 PM
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>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> I've made it through 118 pages of the Chicago pics with no end in
>>>>> sight.
>>>>> This has taken me from some of his first work in 1937 all the way
>>>>> to 1958.
>>>>> It's fascinating to see how he progressed in terms of
>>>>> composition and
>>>>> creative perspective. I also noticed that his camera developed a
>>>>> sticky
>>>>> shutter in 1958 or thereabouts. Seems he had it fixed fairly soon.
>>>>> It's
>>>>> also interesting that he threw very little away -- end of roll
>>>>> shots,
>>>>> sticky shutter shots, overexposed and underexposed shots --
>>>>> they're all
>>>>> here.
>>>>>
>>>>> The Chicago area pics start here: http://tinyurl.com/2lsrlo
>>>>> Paul
>>>>>
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