I thought at first you were a tapir or a tiger.

The tapir is a forest animal that looks like a large pig.

The animal had the size and the appearance of a modern tapir.

The nose probably started out fairly small, like that of, say, the modern tapir.

Especially for the mountain tapir, the park is one of the most important strongholds.

It has a significantly lower risk of extinction, though, than the other three tapir species.

Tapirs become mature when they are 4 years old.

A tapir is a big animal that lives in South America.

"This one is called the tapir woman," said the brown man, and I made a motion for him to speak more softly.

There are also mandrills and baby elephants but no tapir.

Tapirs have a long history on the North American continent.

It is one of the few zoos worldwide to have the mountain tapir.

They are related to the modern horse, rhino, and tapir.

The tapir gave the nose a little twist, and the finger lay on the floor.

"We must have disturbed him while he was having this tapir for supper.

Throw it at one of those tapirs, it'll bounce right off them."

Tapirs live in dense forests, and close to water.

Tapirs can become 25 - 30 years old.

However, there is no fossil-based evidence of tapirs ever existing in Africa.

A few feet away, enjoying delicious fallen fruit, is a large tapir.

The expanded nasal is present in tapirs, but they are not aquatic animals.

It may represent a real tapir that was an imperial gift from Malaysia.

Tapirs have exceptionally long penises relative to their body size.

The tapir is the largest land mammal in Central America.

Around a corner he came on the hapless tapirs, rooting in the mud.