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.

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

27. The three zoos that house this species are working to ensure that the remaining wild populations of mountain tapirs are protected.

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

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

30. I have dedicated the past 20 years of my life to the research and conservation of tapirs in Brazil, and it has been absolutely amazing.

31. 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.

32. 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

33. Tapirs are mostly found in tropical forests such as the Amazon, and they absolutely need large patches of habitat in order to find all the resources they need to reproduce and survive.

34. 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.

35. And I'll keep doing this for Patrícia, my namesake, one of the first tapirs we captured and monitored in the Atlantic Forest many, many years ago; for Rita and her baby Vincent in the Pantanal.

36. And I will keep doing this for the hundreds of tapirs that I've had the pleasure to meet over the years and the many others I know I will encounter in the future.

37. Tapirs near a water source will swim, sink to the bottom, and walk along the riverbed to feed, and have been known to submerge themselves under water to allow small fish to pick parasites off their bulky bodies.

38. 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

39. ‘The Northern immigrants to South America included the rodents, Carnivora (bears, cats, dogs, etc.), llamas and horses, bovids (particularly deer), and the tapirs and elephants.’ ‘It is also true that not all Carnivora are carnivorous; some, such as bears and raccoons, are decidedly omnivorous, and at least one, the panda, is primarily

40. ANCIENT Arctogaea Inspection of the foregoing lists which represent the existing fauna of the various zoo-geographical regions, will show that although they are distinct from one another and mingle only incompletely in the transition regions, certain animals such as the tapirs, may occur in widely separated areas not now connected by a practicable land-bridge.