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A female Southern three-banded armadillo pup which was born at a zoo in Washington State last month has been named Segway.

Videos shared by the Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium in Tacoma on social media showed the one-month-old pup moving on a blanket and being weighed on December 1 and captured the 1.5 weeks old tiny armadillo on November 10.

The pup was born to parents Vespa and Scooter on October 30 and has been named Segway by the zoo.

"Segway is the first healthy armadillo pup ever born at Point Defiance Zoo", the zoo said.

The species is listed as near threatened by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).

A Segway is a motorized personal vehicle which was invented in the United States two decades ago and staff thought the name was fitting for the offspring of parents named after the famous Italian Vespa scooter.