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	Pictures of the Brazilian tapir or South American tapir\|Tapirus terrestris facts
		Brazilian Tapir Skull - The Brazilian Tapier, Tapirus terrestris is generally solitary, and is found near rivers in mesic, transitional, and humid forest.
		Brazilian Tapir (Tapirus terrestris) The Brazilian tapir is related to the horse and the rhinoceros.
		The South American Tapir is a favourite food of the jaguar, and the flesh is considered palatable by hunters who have eaten it.
	www.thewebsiteofeverything.com /animals/mammals/Perissodactyla/Tapiridae/Tapirus/Tapirus-terrestris.html (782 words)

	Tapir - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The tapir family is old by mammalian standards: the earliest fossil tapir dates to the early Oligocene, and Eocene rocks from as early as 55 million years ago contain a wide range of tapir-like animals.
		The Brazilian Tapir often sinks to the bottom of a stream and walks along the riverbed to feed.
		Hybrid tapirs from the Baird's Tapir and the Brazilian Tapir were bred at the San Francisco Zoo around 1968 and produced a second generation around 1970.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tapir (631 words)

	Brazilian Tapir - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Brazilian Tapir (anta in Portuguese), also known as the Lowland Tapir (Tapirus terrestris) is one of four species in the tapir family, along with the Mountain Tapir, the Malayan Tapir, and the Baird's Tapir.
		In the wild, the main predators of the Brazilian tapir are the jaguar and puma which often attacks the tapir at night, when they leave the water and sleep on the riverband.
		The Brazilian tapir is generally recognized as an endangered animal species, with the species being designated as endangered by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service on June 2, 1970.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Brazilian_Tapir (335 words)

	Malayan Tapir \| Animal Facts \| Fresno Chaffee Zoo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Tapirs and their kin have been around since Gondwanaland, which explains why they are in Central and South America and clear on the other side of the globe in Malaya.
		Tapirs actually have a fourth toe on the forelegs, but it is small and does not touch ground except in mud.
		The color of the NW tapirs is conducive to blending with the shadows and tree trunks of the dimly lit rainforest floor.
	www.fresnochaffeezoo.com /animals/tapirs.html (902 words)

	Malayan Tapir \| Animal Facts \| Chaffee Zoological Gardens of Fresno (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The Brazilian tapir is better named the lowland, and terrestris is "of the earth." Baird's is, of course, named after a person, and pinchaque is rather obscure, no etymology was found.
		Tapirs and their kin have been around since Gondwanaland, which explains why they are in Central and South America and clear on the other side of the globe in Malaya.
		Tapirs actually have a fourth toe on the forelegs, but it is small and does not touch ground except in mud.
	www.chaffeezoo.org /animals/tapirs.html (902 words)

	Tapir
		Tapirs are shy, inoffensive animals, living in habitats varying from tropical rainforest to deciduous forest, from sea level to heights of at least 3350 metres.
		Baird's tapir and the Brazilian tapir both have short, bristly manes stretching along the back of the neck, helping to protect the most vulnerable part of the body from the deadly bite of the jaguar.
		Tapirs have always been a source of food for the natives of the forest, but over-hunting by outsiders has drastically reduced their numbers in some areas.
	www.yptenc.org.uk /docs/factsheets/animal_facts/tapir.html (869 words)

	ipedia.com: Brazilian Tapir Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The Brazillian Tapir, also known as the Lowland Tapir, (Tapirus terrestris) is one of four species in the tapir family, along with the Mountain Tapir, the Malayan Tapir, and the Baird's Tapir, the latter of which is the only other tapir to inhabit South America.
		In the wild, the main predators of the Brazilian tapir are the jaguar and puma which often attacks the tapir at night, when they leave the water and sleep on the riverbank.
		The Brazilian tapir is generally recognized as a endangered animal species, with the species being designated as endangered by the U.S United States Fish and Wildlife Service on June 2, 1970.
	www.ipedia.com /brazilian_tapir.html (457 words)

	Tapir
		The tapir family is old by mammal standards: the earliest fossil tapir dates to the early Oligocene, and Eocene rocks from as long as 55 million years ago contain a wide range of tapir-like animals.
		Although tapirs were once widespread, only four species endured into the modern world: three from Central and the warmer parts of South America, one from South-east Asia.
		The smaller Mountain Tapir[?] of the Andes is generally diurnal, but all four species react to hunting pressure by retreating deeper into inacessable regions and becoming more nocturnal and more secretive.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ta/Tapir.html (312 words)

	Digimorph - Tapirus terrestris (lowland tapir)
		Tapirs are browsers, and their cheek teeth are adapted to form a series of shearing transverse blades (lophs) that are well suited for chewing fruit, leaves, and twigs.
		Tapirs generally live in forested areas, and their stocky build, with relatively short limbs and stout torso, is well suited for barreling through the underbrush.
		Relative to other living perissodactyls (i.e., horses and rhinoceroses), tapirs are also characterized by a posteriorly telescoped cranium, with the frontal bones elevated and posteriorly displaced relative to the rest of the facial skeleton.
	www.digimorph.org /specimens/Tapirus_terrestris (1096 words)

	Tapir and Tamerin
		The Brazilian tapir is the largest terrestrial animal in the Peruvian rainforest.
		It is the smallest type of tapir and lives in the forests of South America east of the Andes and north of Argentina.
		While the tapir may resemble a pig or hippopotamus in body stature, it is actually related to the horse and rhinoceros.
	www.samford.edu /schools/artsci/biology/peru03/animals/nancy/tapirpage.html (1438 words)

	Ladywildlife's Brazillian Tapir Page
		This shy forest inhabitant is a relative of the horse and the rhinoceros.
		Malayan tapir, from Burma and Thailand to Malaysia and Sumatra.
		Brazilian natives claim that stones from the tapir’s stomach have medicinal powers and that a powder ground from their hooves cures epilepsy.
	ladywildlife.com /animal/braziliantapir.html (853 words)

	Tapir,Mammals,Tapir Picture,Mammal Pictures,Catalog,Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Tapirs are 1.8 to 2.4 m (6 to 8 ft) long, stand about 1 m (40 in) at the shoulder, and may weigh more than 270 kg (600 lb).
		The Brazilian tapir, T. terrestris, ranges from Colombia and Venezuela to Brazil; Baird's tapir, T. bairdi, from southern Mexico to Ecuador; and the wooly Andean, or mountain tapir, T. roulini, from Venezuela to Peru.
		Tapirs move quickly in open or jungle habitat and live from sea level to almost 4,575 m (15,000 ft).
	www.4to40.com /earth/geography/htm/mammalsindex.asp?counter=151 (221 words)

	Tapir - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The tapir family is old by mammalian standards: the earliest fossil tapir dates to the early Oligocene, and Eocene rocks from as long as 55 million years ago contain a wide range of tapir-like animals.
		Although tapirs were once widespread, only four species endured into the modern world: three in Central and the warmer parts of South America and one in Southeast Asia.
		The three lowland tapirs are largely nocturnal and crepuscular.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Tapir (427 words)

	Folly Farm Adventure Park
		The Brazilian tapir, otherwise known as the lowland tapir, is approximately 3 feet tall, and weighs up to 600 pounds.
		Brazilian tapirs are hoofed mammals, with three toes on each hind foot and four on each front foot.
		The Brazilian tapir is an endangered species and is part of the European breeding programme for endangered species.
	www.folly-farm.co.uk /product.asp?prodid=18299 (202 words)

	Iwokrama Forest \| Tapir
		The range of Brazilian Tapirs is east of the Andes from northern Columbia, Brazil, Venezuela, the Guianas, northern Argentina and Paraguay.
		Brazilian Tapirs are hunted for subsistence use and are susceptible to over hunting.
		The other major threat to these tapirs is loss of habitat due to logging and fires, which also causes the loss of some of their food sources.
	www.iwokrama.org /forest/animals/tapir.htm (489 words)

	Brazilian Tapir: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Brazilian Tapir can attain body lengths of 1.80 - 2.50 m with a 5-10 cm long tail and can reach 77 to 108cm 270 kg[Follow this hyperlink for a summary of this subject] in weight.
		The Brazilian Tapir can be found near water in the Amazon Rainforest[Click link for more facts about this topic] and River Basin[Click link for more facts about this topic] in South America, EHandler: no quick summary.
		The Brazilian tapir is generally recognized as a endangered animal species, EHandler: no quick summary.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/b/br/brazilian_tapir.htm (800 words)

	Amazon Animals mammals - tapir photos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Tapirs are uniquely South American mammals and the largest land animals of the continent.
		Due to their large size, tapirs have been heavily hunted and are increasingly rare in the wild.
		The Brazilian Tapir (Tapirus terrestris) is the largest land animal of the Amazon.
	www.junglephotos.com /amazon/amanimals/ammammals/tapir.shtml (171 words)

	Amazon Animals mammals - tapir natural history (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The tapir's keen sense of smell and hearing usually detect a prowling cat long before it can approach close enough for a kill, and at a hint of danger, the tapir heads for the nearest river or lake—there's not much that will stop a tapir barreling for water.
		Tapir meat ranks high among hunters's favored foods, so its not surprising that the animal is heavily hunted near inhabited regions.
		Hunters imitate the tapir's whistling call and the animal thereupon replies and is readily found and shot or trapped.
	www.junglephotos.com /amazon/amanimals/ammammals/tapirnathist.shtml (1002 words)

	Brookfield Zoo \| Field Guide - Lowland (or Brazilian) Tapir
		But tapirs are their own kind of creature, and what they resemble most is really another tapir.
		Weighing between 150 and 250 kg (330 to 550 pounds), tapirs are the largest terrestrial mammal native to the Amazonian region of South America.
		When the weather is warm, the tapirs are outdoors (across from the kangaroos); you’ll most often see their head and snout sticking up from their pool, or find them lounging in the shade.
	www.brookfieldzoo.org /pagegen/htm/fix/fg/fg_body.asp?sAnimal=Lowland+%28or+Brazilian%29+tapir (707 words)

	Rainforest Live: Tapirs
		Tapirs are found in the rainforests of South East Asia and South and Central America.
		There are four species of tapirs: the Brazilian tapir, the mountain tapir, the Bairds tapir and the Malayan tapir.
		Tapirs are mainly active at night, feeding on grasses, leaves, twigs, fruit and shoots.
	www.rainforestlive.org.uk /index.cfm?Articleid=508 (233 words)

	A Zoo Man's Notebook: The tapirs
		The mountain tapir is certainly the rarest but by no means the most spectacular of the tapirs; that distinction belongs to the Malay or saddle-back tapir that ranges from Sumatra northward through the Malay peninsula to the borders of Burma and Thailand.
		Like other tapirs it is flish or flish- brown in general, but has a blanket of white or grayish white extending over the back from shoulders to hips, rather as if it has fallen over backwards into a tub of whitewash.
		All of the other tapirs of the world are from Central and South America---Baird's tapir the largest, the Brazilian tapir next, and the mountain tapir the smallest.
	www.tapir.org /zooman/the_tapirs.html (974 words)

	Welcome to Adobe GoLive 6 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The Brazilian tapir is another animal found in the rain forest.
		The Brazilian tapir is a mammal with a diet of leaves, buds, fruit, grasses, and some plants.
		The Brazilian tapir is a good swimmer, but also moves fast on land, even over rugged mountainous country.
	www.promotega.org /hga30008/animals.html (324 words)

	Animal Fact Sheets (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Tapirs are browsers and grazers, feeding primarily on grasses, aquatic plants, leaves, buds, soft twigs and fruits of low-growing shrubs.
		Although the zoo’s tapirs live in the more confined space of our exhibit, great care is taken to supply a variety of natural vegetation, fruits and vegetables to add diversity to their diet.
		The Malayan tapir’s natural habitats in southeast Asia are quickly disappearing due to human activities such as agriculture, cattle grazing, logging and flooding caused by hydroelectric projects.
	www.zoo.org /educate/fact_sheets/tapir/tapir.htm (975 words)

	BBC - Science & Nature - Wildfacts - Brazilian tapir
		Tapirs are as happy in water as on the forest floor, and Brazilian tapirs often forage along river bottoms, and use water as an escape from predators such as jaguars.
		Tapirs come into heat every 2-3 months and give birth to a single young after a 13 month gestation period.
		Tapirs are very important as plant seed dispersers as they eat tremendous amounts, and many seeds germinate in their faeces.
	www.bbc.co.uk /nature/wildfacts/factfiles/609.shtml (291 words)

	The Tapir Blog
		As tapir fans around the world will have noticed, Franklin Park Zoo recently announced the birth of a Baird’s Tapir - and a contest to name him.
		I received notice from the zoo yesterday that the bay tapir is now back on exhibit and has recovered from the scare that may have killed him.
		Vasan is the offspring of Kakak Goetz (now called Ka) and Sayang at the Edinburgh Zoo - their first tapir baby.Eagle-eyed tapir fans will recognise Vasan’s father Goetz from the tapir webcam at Dortmund Zoo some years ago.
	tapirblog.tapirdesign.com (488 words)

	Tapir Type: About Tapirs
		Malayan tapirs are primarily solitary creatures, marking out large tracts of land as their territory, though these areas usually overlap with those of other individuals.
		Tapirs mark out their territories by spraying on plants, and they often follow distinct paths which they have bulldozed through the undergrowth.
		Tapirs are rarely hunted by animals other than humans, because their tough skin and good defenses make it difficult to harm a healthy adult.
	www.tapirtype.com /About_Tapirs (1127 words)

	Brazilian Tapir
		The Name "Tapir": "Tapir" is a Guarani name for the animal, Guarani evidently being a form of Spanish spoken in Paraguay.
		Like its Malayan cousin, the Brazilian tapir can reach six and one half feet long, three and a half feet at the shoulders, and over 500 pounds.
		Tapirs are particularly vulnerable at night when they emerge from the water to sleep on the river bank.
	www.americazoo.com /goto/index/mammals/345.htm (316 words)

	Tapirs
		Tapirs are among the most primitive large mammals in the world today.
		Tapirs have regular routes through the forest undergrowth and mark their territories with urine and dung, as do rhinos.
		Wild tapirs are quite wary, though, and it is always a special day when one is actually seen in the wild.
	montereybay.com /creagrus/tapirs.html (545 words)

	ADW: Tapirus terrestris: Information
		The Brazilian tapir is found near rivers in mesic, transitional, and humid forest.
		The Brazilian tapir may play a key role in neotropical ecosystems; it represented 25% of the total biomass of 64 species of fauna on a ranch in the Brazilian pantanal.
		There are Pleistocene fossil remains of the Brazilian tapir from the upper Jurua region in Acre, Brazil, from Jacu Pirango in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and from Jaupaci, Brazil.
	animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu /site/accounts/information/Tapirus_terrestris.html (791 words)

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