Tapir
Tapir (genus Tapirus), any of four species of hoofed mammals, the only extant members of the family Tapiridae (order Perissodactyla), found in tropical forest
of Malaysia and the New World. Heavy-bodied and rather short-legged,
tapirs are 1.8 to 2.5 m (about 6 to 8 feet) long and reach about 1 m at
the shoulder. The eyes are small, the ears are short and rounded, and
the snout extends into a short fleshy proboscis, or trunk, that hangs
down over the upper lip. The feet have three functional toes, the first
(inner) being absent, and the fifth reduced in front and absent in the
hind foot. Body hair is short and usually sparse but fairly dense in the mountain tapir (T. pinchaque, formerly T. roulini).
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