tapir|tapirs in English

noun

any of several large hoofed mammals that resemble swine (native to tropical America, the Malay Peninsula and Sumatra)

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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. And tapirs are found in very, very small, isolated, disconnected populations.

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

11. And somehow, tapirs are still there, which gives me a lot of hope.

12. We have to educate people about tapirs and how important these animals are.

13. Tapirs are generally shy, but when scared they can defend themselves with their very powerful jaws.

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

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

16. Baird's tapirs have been observed to eat around 40 kg (85 lb) of vegetation in one day.

17. An experienced hunter, the jaguar feeds on about 85 species of animals, including tapirs, deer, and monkeys.

18. And we'll perform this Boolean operation because we really love yellow and tapirs on green grass.

19. If you think about it, the extinction of tapirs would seriously affect biodiversity as a whole.

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

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

22. 17 It is a small six-legged herbivore called a HEXAPEDE,[Sentencedict.com] about the size of a tapir.

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

24. And although I'm struggling with all these questions in my mind right now, I have a pact with tapirs.

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