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Do tapirs live on the forest floor?

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Anonymous

15y ago
Updated: 8/18/2019

Tapirs are native to the rainforests of Latin America and Asia. They cannot climb trees, so they live on the forest floor. The forest floor in a tropical rainforest is called the understory.

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