tapir in English

noun
1
a nocturnal hoofed mammal with a stout body, sturdy limbs, and a short flexible proboscis, native to the forests of tropical America and Malaysia.
Passing tigers, rhinos, tapirs , deer and other animals triggered the shutter by tripping infrared sensors.

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1. This is a tapir.

2. From small agoutis to bulky tapir.

3. This is the lowland tapir, the tapir species I work with, the largest terrestrial mammal of South America.

4. In fact, many people think this is a tapir.

5. 4 a tapir found in Malaya and Sumatra.

6. Let me tell you, this is not a tapir.

7. Now, the tapir is a mammal from South America.

8. George Cuvier originally described them as being a kind of tapir, and as such, Palaeotherium is popularly reconstructed as a tapir-like animal.

9. I know in my heart that tapir conservation is my cause.

10. Many indigenous animal species such as caiman and tapir are used in spiced stews.

11. Now this, this is a baby tapir, the cutest animal offspring in the animal kingdom.

12. And it's amazing how many people around the world do not know what a tapir is.

13. The Amazonian story seems susceptible of the following interpretation:—The tapir is the sun, the tortoise the moon

14. 17 It is a small six-legged herbivore called a HEXAPEDE,[Sentencedict.com] about the size of a tapir.

15. The National Park is an important refuge for rare species of the Andes, like mountain tapir and spectacled bear.

16. The natural lifespan of a tapir is about 25 to 30 years, both in the wild and in zoos.

17. And I'll keep doing this for Ted, a baby tapir we captured in December last year also in the Pantanal.

18. Baird's tapir is named for the American naturalist Spencer Fullerton Baird, who traveled to Mexico in 1843 and observed the animals.

19. I started my tapir work in 1996, still very young, fresh out of college, and it was a pioneer research and conservation program.

20. Our first tapir program took place in the Atlantic Forest in the eastern part of Brazil, one of the most threatened biomes in the world.

21. Botulinuses botulism (current term) botulism antitoxin botulism toxin botulismotoxin botulisms: botulogenic boubas boubou boubous bouche bouche de tapir bouchee bouchees bouches boucle: Literary usage of Botulism

22. After 12 years in the Atlantic Forest, in 2008, we expanded our tapir conservation efforts to the Pantanal in the western part of Brazil near the border with Bolivia and Paraguay.

23. Artiodactyla An order or a suborder of ungulate or hoofed mammals which are cloven-footed or even-toed and have hoofs in pairs (either two or four), as all ruminants (Bovidœ, Cervidœ, etc.) and hog-like ungulates (Hippopotamidœ, Suidœ, etc.): opposed to odd-toed ungulates or Perissodactyla, as the horse, rhinoceros, tapir, etc