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Tapirs
Questions about a giant pig-like mammal inhabiting the dense jungles of South America and Southeast Asia should be directed here. Tapirs have a small snout similar to the Elephants. They are all endangered due to excessive hunting and habitat loss. Though Tapirs may look like a pig and have snouts, they are closely related to animals like the Horse and the Rhino.
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Some people with foot drop walk with a very exaggerated swinging hip motion to help prevent the toes from catching on the ground.
The tapir is a herbivore and spends it's time browsing for food to eat. The tapir eats leaves, twigs, branches, buds, shoots, berries, fruits and aquatic plants.
Can a Malayan Tapir live in savannas?
The Malayan Tapir is not endemic to savannas. It can only be found naturally in humid, tropical forests, swampy areas and meadows of southeast Asia.
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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.
What does the Brazilion tapirs eat?
The South American Tapir or the Brazilian Tapirs are herbivores and eat leaves,buds,shoots , fruits and also aquatic plants.
Why should humans be concerned about tapir becoming endangered?
Because humans are responsible for their diminishing natural habitat !
How do tapirs protect themselves?
well, if they get trapped, they use their sharp teeth to fight, or they run into the water where many animals can't get them
Their strong jaws can seriously injure animals and even humans!
Through their nose and into their lungs, where the oxygen from the air can be distributed throughout the body.
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A tapir is an omnivore and almost everybody thinks that it's a vegetarian. But one day my friend Jeremy and I went to the Amazon Rainforest in South America and we saw a tapir hunting for several baby toucans and ate some plants so a tapir is an omnivore. So back to the question, the tapir consists a diet of berries, leaves and fruit but a tapir also eats baby toucans, banded rattlesnakes and some tapirs, fish hope this helped and I am not lying because My friend Jeremy and I actually saw a baby toucan being eaten by a tapir if you want the specific tapir type its the Brazilian Tapir HOPED THIS HELPED!
How does a tapir defend itself?
Not very well, unfortunately, which is why they are almost extinct. They generally try to run (or swim) away when threatened, and offer little resistance to predators once caught. They might wriggle around a bit, and have been known to kick an attacking tiger in the stomach, but this is likely to be more accident than an attempt at aggression. During the course of my research I was told by a Malaysian jungle guide of one mortally injured tapir who deliberately bit the ear of a hunter as he bent down to look at it, but I have no way of knowing if the story is true or not.
Well my mom is from a small country called Belize. The tapir is Belize's national animal. If you go to the Belize Zoo they feed the tapirs vegetables such as carrots and lettuce, but in the wild they eat plants and sometimes farmers crops.
How much do tapirs eat per day or week?
It has been noted that they can eat up to 80lbs. of vegetation a day
What do the baby tapirs use to eat fruit from the trees?
They don't. The mother forages for them whilst they remain hidden in the grass. That way they are reasonably safe from predators.
