Tapirus Dowi from Biologia Centrali-Americana.
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Object Details
- Creator
- Alston, Edward
- Book Title
- Biologia centrali-americana. Mammalia.
- Caption
- Tapirus Dowi.
- Educational Notes
- Dont laugh! This animals funny appearance has kept it alive on this planet for millions of years, unchanged. This is a tapir and there are at least four known species in South America, Central America, and Southeast Asia. While is looks like an anteater or a pig with a trunk, it is really more closely related to a horse or a rhinoceros. Its snout is essential to its survival. The tapir can use its snout to grab things such as leaves or fruit on a tree that it wants to eat. It sometimes hides in water, sticking just its snout above the surface like a snorkel, so that it can breathe. If you think this adult tapir looks funny, you should see its babies! They look like little running watermelons with their jagged white stripes.
- Illustration of a tapier at a water source.
- Publication Date
- 1879-1882
- Image ID
- SIL-bca_02_00_00_265_crop
- Catalog ID
- 58295
- Rights
- No Copyright - United States
- Type
- Prints
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- R.H. Porter
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- Taxonomy
- Tapirus dowi
- Smithsonian Libraries
- Topic
- Mammals
- Zoology
- Biology
- Tapirs
- Language
- English
- Latin
- Record ID
- silgoi_66576
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
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