Tapir

By Ksena | September 13, 2007 1:20 pm |
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Animals

Hello again my dear fans of unusual and curious animals. Our subject of today is a very specific and beautiful creation – tapir. I’ve read somewhere that tapir was listed impartially in top 20 of unusual animal of the world. They look like a mixture of the pig and elephant :)
Four species of tapir exist on the planet today. The tapirs are related to the primitive horse and to the rhinoceros, see yourself

Mam and baby tapir

Tapirs have been variously described as having brown eyes or having eyes with a bluish cast to them. Tapirs like to bathe, and will make treks to pools and rivers for this purpose. All are dense and bulky with hard, tough skin. They swim well, climb well, and bulldoze paths through the vegetation of their habitats – vegetation on which they also browse for their main food source. They eat aquatic vegetables such as leaves, buds, twigs, and fruits of low plants.

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