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15 Cool Facts About Tapirs — Plus Photo Gallery!

September 25, 2009 By 3 Comments
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Mountain tapir with its tongue sticking out

Tapir fact 14: New World tapirs live in Central and South America. The Baird’s and lowland tapirs live in the forests and grasslands, and the mountain tapir lives high in the Andes Mountains. The Malayan tapir is an Old World tapir and is found in Southeast Asia.

Pictured: Mountain tapir.

Image source: flickr.com / CC BY 2.0

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About Rhishja Cota-Larson

Rhishja is the founder of Saving Rhinos, which publishes news and information about the illegal trade in rhino horn and rhino conservation issues. She is the Editor of the blogs "Rhino Horn is Not Medicine" and "Project Pangolin", and author of the book "Murder, Myths & Medicine". Check out savingrhinos.org, rhinoconservation.org, and pangolins.org to learn more. When Rhishja is not blogging about the illegal wildlife trade, she enjoys rocking out to live music.

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  1. Duncan says:
    September 25, 2009 at 2:33 pm

    Now…WHAT DO YA KNOW ?!!!
    WOW…TAPIRS…WONDERFUL ANIMALS

    THANKS RHISH’…You’re really working hard !!!

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  2. sydney says:
    March 23, 2011 at 9:46 pm

    Awesome you helped me with a conservation project.Thanks this will get peoples attention!

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