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Tapir in sentence

19 examples of Tapir in a sentence

Now, the tapir is a mammal from South America.
And the tapir has a prehensile penis.
The biggest penis in the animal kingdom, however, is not that of the tapir.
This is a tapir.
Now this, this is a baby tapir, the cutest animal offspring in the animal kingdom.
This is the lowland tapir, the tapir species I work with, the largest terrestrial mammal of South America.
I started my tapir work in 1996, still very young, fresh out of college, and it was a pioneer research and conservation program.
And it's amazing how many people around the world do not know what a tapir is.
In fact, many people think this is a tapir.
Let me tell you, this is not a tapir.
Our first tapir program took place in the Atlantic Forest in the eastern part of Brazil, one of the most threatened biomes in the world.
So our main approach in this region was to use our tapir data to identify the potential places for the establishment of wildlife corridors in between those patches of forest, reconnecting the habitat so that tapirs and many other animals could cross the landscape safely.
After 12 years in the Atlantic Forest, in 2008, we expanded our tapir conservation efforts to the Pantanal in the western part of Brazil near the border with Bolivia and Paraguay.
And working in the Pantanal has been extremely refreshing because we found large, healthy tapir populations in the area, and we have been able to study tapirs in the most natural conditions we'll ever find, very much free of threats.
So thanks to these amazing devices, we have been able to gather precious information about tapir reproduction and social organization which are very important pieces of the puzzle when you're trying to develop those conservation strategies.
We'll see if it will reduce the amount of tapir roadkill.
I know in my heart that tapir conservation is my cause.
And I'll keep doing this for Ted, a baby tapir we captured in December last year also in the Pantanal.
Farther on, the pachydermatous lophiodon (crested toothed), a gigantic tapir, hides behind the rocks to dispute its prey with the anoplotherium (unarmed beast), a strange creature, which seemed a compound of horse, rhinoceros, camel, and hippopotamus.