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Armadillos pose actual health risk to children due to carrying diseases

Armadillos are carriers of diseases such as Leprosy and the Bubonic plague, the deadliest disease in the history of humanity. If fireflies were removed because a few frogs might have had an unpleasant day, then an actual life-threatening danger for children should recieve more support. You could make it so that being to close to an armadillo or punching one gives you the Fatal Poison status effect, but I think it would be better to remove it from the running or replace its function with another mob, like the rare Pangolin, which is also native to savannahs, but has less of a chance to harm a child due to how few of them there are in the world and the less deadly diseases they could potentially carry.

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    In that case, r3move half of the game's mobs. Bats and wolves have rabies. Farm animals can carry diseases. We just have to assume such conditions don't exist in MC to keep them all in.

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    Yeah, they could carry diseases, but with armadillos it's a situation where if you're near a wild one, there's like a 75% chance that you're going to get leprosy. Not to mention, they're extremely common in the southern US and are an animal not really thought of as dangerous, so there's an even higher chance of somebody getting sick.

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    The Pangolin would be a cool mob to add. It gives me ocelot vibes as, if the pangolin was added to minecraft, people would associate the animal with minecraft because you don’t really hear much about them, similar to the ocelot. I hope this makes sense 

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    I also agree that the Armadillo shouldn’t be added in the game for the same reasons that have been said. It’s a bit hypocritical that Mojang removed Fireflies because they are poisonous to Frogs if they eat them and then, a couple of years later, they add a mob that carries deadly diseases. I think Mojang should remove the Armadillo completely or add Fireflies as well as the Armadillo. Fireflies would be a cool ambient mob to have in the game too.