Tapirs

Considering their size and appearance they can run surprisingly quickly

The tapir motif has been a staple of cinematography since its inception at the start of the 20th century. There have been appearances in many celebrated Hollywood and European films. The famous 'Odessa steps' scene in Eisenstein's 1925 masterpiece 'Battleship Potemkin' features a shot of a lone Baird's tapir eating a mouthful of grass, while a whole family of Malaysian Lowland tapirs appear on screen just after the 'rosebud' scene in Orson Welles' 'Citizen Kane' (1941). Fellini preferred to use South American tapirs in most of his movies, although he reluctantly agreed to use a Malaysian Lowland when his regular tapir fell ill during the shooting of La Dolce Vita (1960), a decision which he regretted bitterly for the rest of his life. Japanese maestro Akira Kurosawa kept three tapirs (the exact species is unknown) permanently in a specially designed shed outside his studio so that they could be filmed at any time, and all three feature extensively in his dark 1950 classic 'Rashomon'. The character 'Beige' in Quentin Tarrantino's 'Reservoir Dogs' was of course played by a Brazilian tapir called Tim.

Tapirs are related to horses and rhinoceroses. There are four species of tapirs and all of them are either endangered or vulnerable.

Tapirs weigh between 500 and 800 lbs (225 to 360 kg). They can be over three and a half feet (1m10cm) tall. They live 25 to 30 years.

They eat leaves and fruit and feed in the morning and evening.

Tigers, jaguars, anacondas and crocodiles can all be dangerous to tapirs.

Their trunk is prehensile. They are good swimmers and like to swim but can also sink and walk along the bottom of a river.

for their meat and hides

It depends really. There are 4 spieces of tapirs. However, I only know 2 spieces. One of them is the Brazilian Tapir. This spieces of tapir comes from Brazil and Peru. The other one is a Maylasian Tapir. This one I'm certain comes from Asia.

Human eat tapirs and leaf cutter ants

young tapirs are called calves.

The tapir lives on the forest floor.

20 to 30 million years, for much of their history they were spread accros the northern hemisphere, but became extinct is this area about 10,000 years ago

Tapirs like to live in forests as well as jungles. They are found in Peru, Brazil, Argentina, Malaysia, and Costa Rica.

Tigers are top predators, nothing hunts them except man and because their numbers are so low it is now illegal to hunt and kill a tiger.

we can give money to zoos and adopt them

Tapirs need, in decreasing order of urgency:

1. air (it's actually only the oxygen in the air that they need)

2. water

3. food

4. a suitable environment to live in

5. each other (to reproduce)

That's pretty much it, really. The only reason they're having any problems at all surviving is that, through no fault of their own, they are having to share a planet with a ruthlessly exploitative master-species (you and me) that multiplies like a virus and destroys everything that gets in the way (including the innocent tapirs).

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They have long noses and mouths to grasp onto branches.

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Well my mom is from Belize which is a small country in central america and I have come face to face with a tapir. They are tame in zoos so they do not defend themselves but on the wild the swim away because the are great swimmers. If there are no rivers near buy the tapir will run and also use cammoflauge.

Fruit, berries and tender green shoots

what kind of shelter does a tapir have

The 'Baird's' part of the name Baird's tapir comes from Baird. The 'tapir' element is derived from the word tapir, because it is a tapir.

Malayan Tapirs live in the areas of Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia, and Sumatra. They usually stay near streams and swamps of the rainforest. This species of tapirs has a black and white body. They are the closest relatives of the horses, and rhinoceroses. Malayan Tapirs have a snout that looks like a short elephant trunk. The trunk is used to smell and push food into the mouth. They are really shy. When they sense danger, the tapir quickly run away to find safety. The tapirs usually live alone or in pair. Measuring from ground up to shoulder, the tapirs are about 34 - 42 inches (86.4 - 108.7cm) tall. They weigh between 550 - 660 pounds (249.5 - 299.4kg). The average life span is 30 years. Females can produce every 18 months an infant. The average gestation period is between 390 - 395 days. Since they live in the forest and around streams, the Malayan Tapirs eat grass, aquatic vegetation, leaves, buds, and twigs. They also like fruits of low standing shrubs. Now the Malayan Tapirs are endangered because of the loss of habitat. People cut down forests for timber and agricultural use. Thus the tapirs have no place to hide when poachers pursuit them. The local people also hunt them down for leather and meat. Fortunately, government of Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia, and Indonesia passed laws to ban people from hurting these creatures. The only thing now is to enforce these laws.
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they did because flying monkeys named chris dropped them into the wild at midnight. FYI All the monkeys r GAY

Yes they did their babies had to develop a red stripe color to blend into the dirt.

Tapirs live in south America and also in Malaysia