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/tˈæpiə/
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NOUN
- large inoffensive chiefly nocturnal ungulate of tropical America and southeast Asia having a heavy body and fleshy snout
How To Use tapir In A Sentence
- Although there is a little train which can take you around, we found the dusk walks more interesting, with only a ditch (which disappeared in the dark) to separate us from the animals which were just metres away ... such as cheetahs, giraffes, hippos, rhinos, tapirs, hyenas, etc. TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com
- The remaining toes not used for walking are either reduced, as in pigs and tapirs, or completely lost, as in rhinos and most ruminants.
- When moving, the Malayan tapir walks slowly with its head down, which probably allows it to pick up the scents of other tapirs.
- In wild areas, they hunt the tapir (a kind of wild hog), the anteater, and the jaguar, as well as the agouti (a rabbit-like rodent).
- Biodiversity FeaturesThere are no endemic mammalmammals in the ecoregion, but many species are known to use mangroves, including the tiger (Panthera tigris), tapir (Tapirus indicus), and siamang (Hylobates syndactylus). Indochina mangroves
- The dam would flood the Macal River valley - a so-called ‘Biogem’ of rain forest and fertile flood plain that is home to many endangered species like the howler monkey, jaguar, and tapir.
- Tapirs are shy, reclusive rainforest animals that live in nearly any wooded or grassy habitat with a permanent supply of water.
- The other two were known as hoki patu, stick coca, and wehki patu, coca of the tapir. One River
- Huge elephantine forms, the mastodon, the hippopotamus, the tapir, antelopes of monstrous size, the megatherium, and the myledon — all, for the moment, in juxtaposition. A Pair of Blue Eyes
- Unlike artiodactyls, perissodactyls either walk on three toes (like rhinos, tapirs, many extinct horses, and other extinct groups) or on a single toe (like recent horses).