Almost certainly not. I have never observed a tapir eating mud, but if I did I would probably feel compelled to intervene and stop this self-destructive behavior at once.
No self-respecting tapir in sound mental condition would lower itself to this kind of filthy habit.
No tapirs are not rodents but are related to horses and rhinoceros they are the size of a small cow. Eating berries nuts fruit vegetation and roots.
use hypnotism to hypnotize it onto think mud is good for them then make them not be hypnotized when the mud is in their mouth then they will not like mud anymore and that is how you stop your dog from eating mud
Nipples are good for them. Feed them nipples.
No, Tapirs are herbivores, Jaguars and Anaconda are the tapirs predators.
Mud daubers live for a total of one year. Mud daubers are slender wasps that are known for eating black widow spiders.
There are a few reasons why... Some for logging some for hunting (hide hunting and for eating)
Sounds like a pig.
Malaysian tapirs are best known for their black and white hid that allows the tapir to be camouflaged in both in the day and at night. All tapirs are very good swimmers. They are not fast runners at all, for they are all about 900 pounds, but as soon as they see a predator the hit the water.
No, they sound like they should but they don't
The collective noun is a candle of tapirs.
young tapirs are called calves.
Baby tapirs are are called calves..One is called a calf.