Mark,
Not trying to steal Tymes thread here but you have a great point on strength and it made me think about one afternoon many years ago.
We use to drive around the swamps in Florida (great fun!!) and look for small pigs to try and catch by hand (never caught one but we took some serious nose dives, those things can cut and run..lol) It would look like a Chinese fire drill when we saw one, the truck would stop and the doors would fly open and the race was on! Like I said good times for sure but anyway we had enough oneday and on the way out we saw an Armadillo rooting in a field so I jumped out of the p/u truck and took off after it, after falling down many times I finally caught this thing and I was amazed at how strong it was. I could barely hold it and after it shat on me I learned you should hold it by the tail. Man it was so funny it still brings a smile to my face.