Tropical nocturnal mammal

Usage examples of tapir.

Tapirs, deer, agouti and other game fell before his arrows, until he had accumulated enough to supply the cabin for weeks to come.

Pete and I landed and reported the human footprints among the tapir and others, we were the objects of boisterous ridicule.

The Indian tapir has a more powerful and extensile trunk than the American, and its skull shows in consequence a greater space for the attachment of the muscles.

Philip turned to see Hauser coming back from the hunt, with a dead tapir slung on a pole, carried by four soldiers.

The seas still swarmed with serpentine monsters of the saurian type, and the firmer lands were peopled by huge animals, mastodons, bears, giant tapirs, mylodons, deinotheriums, and a score of other species too strange for them to recognise by any Earthly likeness, which roamed in great herds through the vast twilit forests and over boundless plains covered with grey-blue vegetation.

A comparison of the skulls of these three groups of animals shows, however, that although the nasal openings may be similarly situated, the elephant and tapir skulls have further modifications which are not present in the sauropod skull.

Lophrodon, that gigantic tapir, which concealed itself behind rocks, ready to do battle for its prey with the Anoplotherium, a singular animal partaking of the nature of the rhinoceros, the horse, the hippopotamus and the camel.

Not likely that the elephants, the seals, the big cats or the bears would be up and doing, but the baboons, the macaques, the mangabeys, the gibbons, the deer, the tapirs, the llamas, the giraffes, the mongooses were early risers.

The draught animals are giant tapirs, three meters high at the shoulder, looking down long noses, arrogant as camels.

When it was realized that ancient tapirs had existed simultaneously in South America and Southeast Asia a land bridge was drawn there, too.

South America is characterized by possessing many peculiar gnawers, a family of monkeys, the llama, peccari, tapir, opossums, and, especially, several genera of Edentata, the order which includes the sloths, ant-eaters, and armadilloes.

But the tapir whip, in the hands of an expert like Olimpioto put it bluntly, Mr Faith, it flays a person alive.

Even I got good pictures of the friendly tapir, and the tamandua (lesser anteater) was an absolute ham.