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15 Cool Facts About Tapirs — Plus Photo Gallery!

Written by Rhishja Larson

Published on September 25th, 2009

Posted in About Animals, In Asia, In The Americas

Tapir fact 9: Their closest living relatives are horses and rhinos.

Pictured: Mountain tapir.

Image source: flickr.com/dsifry/ / CC BY 2.0

Tags: Bairds tapir, Central America, conservation, endangered species, fragmented poulation, habitat loss, IUCN List of Threatened Species, lowland tapir, Malayan tapir, mountain tapir, odd-toed unglulate, South America, Southeast Asia, ungulates

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One Response to “15 Cool Facts About Tapirs — Plus Photo Gallery!”

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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