Tapir
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TAPIR, any existing representative of the perissodactyle section of ungulate mammals with five front and three hind toes, and no horn.
Tapir
Baird's Tapir: Tapirus bairdii
Description: Long, flexible snout, four toes on each fore foot, three toes on each hind foot.The adult is blackish-brown in colour with whitish face, chest and throat.
Habitat: Swampy or hill forests.
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Tapir
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(t´pr), nocturnal, herbivorous mammal, genus Tapirus, of the jungles of Central and South America and SE Asia.
Tapirs have an unusual disjunct distribution - they are the only New World perissodactyls (three species inhabit Central and South America), but one species is native to Asia.
Tapirs (Family Tapiridae) are a family of hoofed mammals that inhabit the forests of South and Central America and Souteast Asia. These piglike mammals spend a great deal of their time in water where they enjoy safety from predators such as jaguars.
Tapirs have a short prehensile (gripping) trunk, which is really an extended nose and upper lip. They use this trunk to grab branches and clean them of leaves or to help pluck tasty fruit. Tapirs feed each morning and evening.
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Diet: Tapirs are plant-eaters (herbivores), eating water plants, leaves, buds, fallen fruit, and twigs. The tapir uses its trunk to sniff out food, reach leaves, grab them, and bring them to its mouth.
Malayan TapirTapirus indicus
Location and Habitat
Malayan tapirs are located in southeast Asia, in countries such as Thailand and Burma. They can also be found on the island of Sumatra.
Baird's Tapir
Range
Southeast Mexico through Northern Columbia to the Gulf of Guayaquil in Ecuador.
Tapirs are large mammals with short snouts that are very flexible. There are four species, or kinds, of tapir. They are found in jungles and forests in South America, Central America and Southeast Asia.
Tapirus with three subgenera (Tapirus, Tapirella, and Acrocodia) and four species
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Tapirs are large mammals found in the rainforests of Central and South America and also Malaysia. The tapir is a bizarre-looking animal with a body shaped like a pig but short elephant-like trunk. Tapirs feed on plants.
Tapirs tend to forage in forest clearings where there are many colonizing plants (5). Browsing often occurs at night (5), and the diet consists of a variety of foliage together with seeds and fruit (4).
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*** Tapirs are among the most primitive large mammals in the world. Their closest relatives are the horses and rhinoceroses.
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Malayan tapir, Tapirus indicus
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Tapirs are very important as plant seed dispersers as they eat tremendous amounts, and many seeds germinate in their faeces.
Young Brazilian Tapir at the Dortmund Zoo
Dwindling numbers are due to poaching for meat and hide, as well as habitat destruction.
Family Tapiridae - tapirs
Family Rhinocerotidae - rhinoceros
Suborder Hippomorpha
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Malayan tapir
Class: Mammalia
Status: IUCN: Endangered; CITES: Appendix l
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A tapir is as elusive as a Jaguar and we were lucky to see this one on the river bank on our downstream return trip.
Above a group of Capybara come down to the river edge.
The tapir's excellent sense of smell makes up for its poor eyesight. And although this creature is not closely related to an elephant, it uses its long snout a lot like a trunk.
Genus Tapirus, Tapirus Roulini, America, Brazil, Family Tapiridae, Thailand
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Mountain tapir (Tapirus pinchaque): Another mammal unique to the Andes, this thick-coated, small pony-sized vegetarian lives in mountain forests up to the treeline.
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Patterns of evolution and variation in the Tapiroidea (Mammalia: Perissodactyla). Ph.d. Dissertation, The University of Texas, Austin, Texas, 464 pp.
Cooper, A., C. Lalueza-Fox, S. Anderson, A. Rambaut, J. Austin, and R. Ward. 2000.
" This group of ungulates includes horses, tapirs, and rhinos. The name of their order derives from the fact that their middle toe is larger than the others, and the plane of symmetry of the foot passes through it, a condition called mesaxonic.
Specific Diets: They typically feed on large rodents, tapirs, capybaras, deer, peccaries, fish, turtles, birds, sheep, dogs and aquatic reptiles like caiman.
Large adults are capable of killing juvenile tapir weighing 100 pounds or more. They have even been reported to attack jaguars and humans, although this is not common. Anacondas kill by constriction and are not venomous.
Largest Animal: The Tapir
Rodent: Capybara (The World's Largest Rodent!)
Reptiles: Anaconda, Bushmaster (poisonous snake) and Caimans (several species; the largest is the black caiman)
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Artiodactyls such as deer, sheep, and goats walk on two toes; perissodactyls walk either on three toes (rhinos, tapirs, some extinct horses) or on one toe (living horses).
The nasal bones of the skull of Palorchestes (known from P. azeal and P. painei) are short and retracted, suggesting the presence of a tapir-like trunk.
In fact, many zoo enclosures rather under-value the swimming behaviour of animals like tapirs, capybaras, or even talapoin monkeys.
It is said that they like to eat ticks off Tapirs and that, on hearing the cries of the Black Caracara, a Tapir will let out a squeal to attract the Caracara and will then lie belly-up to let the Caracara eat its ticks.
Longnose tapirfish, Polyacanthonotus challengeri (Vaillant, 1888)
Polyacanthonotus merretti Sulak, Crabtree & Hureau, 1984
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species and six of living. In the and this family comprises, tapirs and the rhinoceroses , the toed hoofed mammals, or perissobactyls. living members of the genus Equus are about 60 breeds of domesticated horses and their wild relatives.
Perissodactyla - horses, rhinos, tapirs, zebras
There are 15 species in this order. The perissodactyla have hooves and an odd number of toes on their hind feet. They are herbivores.
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Deer, peccary, crocodiles, snakes, monkeys, deer, sloths, tapirs, turtles, eggs, frogs, fish and anything else it can catch.
Population
The total number of jaguars throughout their range is unknown.
This inflatable, humped, and movable nose looks very similar to the noses of tapirs or dik-diks, and makes the head look unusually large, and bulging.
The White and Black Rhinos belong to the Order Perissodactyla, or the browsing and grazing animals called 'odd-toed ungulates,' which include horses, donkeys, zebras and tapirs.
In the wild, jaguars hunt peccaries, capybaras, crocodilians, caimans, tapirs, deer, monkeys, agoutis/rodents, sloths, birds, fish, turtles/turtle eggs, frogs, tortoises, and sometimes livestock.
Most significantly, peccaries, capybaras, tapirs, crocodilians, and fish
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There are also reports that the Inuit Tapirisat of Canada and the Nunavut government would like to reverse the U.S. Marine Mammal Protection Act banning the export of seal skins from Canada.
FOOD:
The jaguar prey base is diverse, including such species as peccaries (wild pigs), capybaras (large rodents), deer, sloths, caymans, tapirs, freshwater fish and smaller animals. They occasionally prey on domestic livestock.
Rarely would anyone look at a rhinoceros or tapir and be reminded of a powerful stallion galloping through the plains. However, the two are closely related. This order contains 3 families and 16 species. Three other families are now extinct.
The closest relatives to the elephant are the Hyraxes and Sea Cows (dugongs and manatees). Elephants are also related to Horses, Tapirs and Rhinos.
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The jaguar is the largest cat found in the Americas. It lives in a variety of habitats, from tropical forests and swamps to grasslands. Prey species include peccaries, tapirs, monkeys, capybaras, crocodiles, and fish.
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 See also: Monkey, Vulture, King vulture, Baboon, Manatee
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