tapir

You won’t see deer, tapir, peccaries, monkeys or chicken-like curassows anywhere within trekking distance of habitation; they’ve all been eaten.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 29, 2026

The study offers insights into the impact of domestic dogs on wildlife, particularly on species of conservation concern such as the mountain tapir.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 17, 2024

It has since expanded to become a wildlife park featuring wallabies, capybara, tapir and lemur and many other species.

From BBC ● Dec. 24, 2021

That Malayan tapir must have taken a long plane ride to get on that trail, Mark.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 14, 2018

The Brazil nuts they had been counting on to sustain them were in short supply, and the piglike tapir, with its prehensile snout, was elusive.

From "Death on the River of Doubt" by Samantha Seiple

This may also explain why other animals with trunks, such as tapirs, never developed such dextrous trunks as elephants, as they never moved into open lands.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 28, 2023

Titanotheres belong in the order Perissodactyla, along with rhinoceroses, tapirs and horses.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 15, 2023

The fossils date from early in the Eocene epoch, when Earth was home to ancient relatives of many modern mammals, including tapirs, hippopotamuses and humans.

From Scientific American ● Jan. 25, 2023

Some early kinds of rhinos looked like hippos or tapirs; one especially huge relative had such a long neck that it is sometimes called the “giraffe rhinoceros.”

From New York Times ● Jan. 6, 2021

The path had been beaten down by the four- and three-toed feet of the piglike tapirs that usually live near the water because they love to swim.

From "Death on the River of Doubt" by Samantha Seiple