Heartwarming moment a dehydrated armadillo is rescued from a roadside in Brazil and is fed water from a flowing pipe out of a truck after 'talking' to the driver

  • Caio Borges, 23, claims the animal 'was asking me to help' and he saved it 
  • Was driving to mid-west Brazil with his brother and found the animal on April 26 
  •  It was too exhausted to walk and could have been living in a deforested area
  • The clip shows the scaled animal showering in the water and slurping puddles

A dehydrated armadillo fled from parched areas of land in Brazil to a deserted highway where it was fed water from a flowing pipe out of a truck. 

Caio Borges, 23, filmed the moment that the desperately weak creature eagerly slurped the water flowing from a pipe jutting from his lorry - and claimed the animal ‘talked him’ into feeding it. 

The man had been stocking up on grain from a farm and was heading with his brother to Campo Novo do Parceis in mid-west Brazil when he spotted the animal limping along the dirt track. 

He opened the water valve in his vehicle and sent water pouring out of the side to feed the quenching thirst of the animal
It then moved its body to shower its head for a satisfying refresh in the Brazilian heat

Caio Borges, 23, experienced 'telepathic communication' from an armadillo when he was driving his truck to mid-west Brazil with his brother, and decided to pull over and help

He said the animal seemed exhausted and was walking slowly which made it easier to move off the road and out of harm's way.  

'It was a bizarre moment but I believe I experienced telepathic communication with the tiny creature. It was as if he was asking me to help it. He needed food and water. I remembered the water valve and opened it', Caio told FocusOn News.

He added how it was an 'amazing and memorable feeling' to make a difference to the armadillo's life from the footage from April 26. 

It is thought that the animal had been surviving in a deforested area in Brazil which had been left desolate by intense soya bean farming caused by long periods of drought

It is thought that the animal had been surviving in a deforested area in Brazil which had been left desolate by intense soya bean farming caused by long periods of drought

The armadillo slurps up the pools of water formed from the pouring pipe
It is used to building dens in moist soil near creeks but the droughts have put hundreds of local species at risk

Caio says the incident has 'marked [him] positively for the rest of [his] life' and he went on to feed the creature a banana after the water shower

And he went so far as to say the 'simple' gesture has 'marked me positively for the rest of my life'.    

The clip, which emerged today, shows the scaled creature showering its small head under the guzzling water to cool down. It then slurps the pool of water forming puddles beneath its small feet.

Opening the pipe at the side of his vehicle, which is normally used to wash his hands before eating while transporting goods over long distances, the motorist drenched the grub eater with water then fed it a banana.

The cute creature, dwarfed by the transporter’s massive tyres, is used to burrowing and building its dens in moist soil near creeks and streams. But hundreds of the dispossessed animals have been forced to live in deforested areas left desolated by intense soya bean farming caused by long periods of drought due to the lack of rain.

A sergeant has recently been pictured feeding an armadillo with a cup of water after a fire broke out on July 18. He was inspecting areas between the municipalities of Nova Mutum and Sao Jose do Rio, in the western Brazilian state of Mato Grosso.  

Another armadillo has also been left nearly blind from a fire burning in Bolivia - with flames ravaging the borders with Brazil and Paraguay. 

Local reports in Brazilian press claim the location where the animal in this instance was found had not been consumed by raging fires which had spread throughout the Amazon region. They say these claims 'appear untrue'.  

According to Caio, the area is barren with has no vegetation to burn.

He added: 'I wished I could have taken the animal to a place where it could be in a more natural an fertile environment, but there is nothing round here that is suitable.' 

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