. Animate creation : popular edition of "Our living world" : a natural history. Zoology; Zoology. THE AMERICAN TAPIR. GOT black mane. The Tapir can easily be brought under the subjection of man, and is readily tamed, becoming unpleasantly familiar with those persons whom it knows, and taking all kinds of liberties with them, which would be well enough in a little dog or a kitten, but are quite out of place with an animal as large as a donkey. The Tapir family, Tapir Idee, has two groups or genera, and six species are enumerated. For a long time only two were known, the East Indian an
. Animate creation : popular edition of "Our living world" : a natural history. Zoology; Zoology. THE AMERICAN TAPIR. GOT black mane. The Tapir can easily be brought under the subjection of man, and is readily tamed, becoming unpleasantly familiar with those persons whom it knows, and taking all kinds of liberties with them, which would be well enough in a little dog or a kitten, but are quite out of place with an animal as large as a donkey. The Tapir family, Tapir Idee, has two groups or genera, and six species are enumerated. For a long time only two were known, the East Indian and the American. Lately, several species have been discovered in South America ; these were all found in the Andes of New Grenada, and Ecuador. A species has also been found in Central AMERICAN TAPER.—Tapims terretstrix. The common American Tapir (Tnpi'nix terrestris) is found in all parts of South America. It is regarded as the largest of South American mammals, measuring sometimes six feet from the snout to the end of the tail. It is nocturnal in habit. Selecting a mate, it lives in pairs during most of the time. Baird's Tapir (Elasmognathus l><iir<li) is a late discovery in Central America. The specific characters are, a very short fur, close, and dark-brown in color, or nearly black. The lower parts of the cheeks and sides of the neck are a bay-brown ; the chin, throat, chest, and front edge of shoulders, a grayish-white. Like the young of other species of Tapir, the young of this are striped curiously with white, giving an aspect not unlike that of the zebra. This is the only species of the genus known. It is native of the Tsthnius of Panama, and extends northward to Mexico. It is regarded as larger than other American species. A variety has been described as a species, and called 7?. dowi, in honor of Captain Dow, a clever collector of Cali- fornia. Tapirs were common in this country in Eocene time, as well as in other countries. The extinct forms of f
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