A tapir looks very much like a fat donkey except that its ears are not so long and its nose not quite so stumpy.
Of the three animals, the wise men selected the tapir because it is a shy, inoffensive creature, not much larger than a sheep and lives on green grasses and herbs.
The hippopotamus, the crocodile and the tapir are to this day said to be symbols of humanity because they have two natures.
The tapir had the big footman in charge: the fellow stood stock-still, and let the beast come up to him, then put out his finger and playfully patted his nose.
The tapir gave the nose a little twist, and the finger lay on the floor.
You’d have shot a tapir with the rifle, I suppose,” scoffed Joe.
So the tapir could not resist the temptation to misapply its nose to the purpose of gathering fodder, and the ultimate result was the elephant, whose nose is a wonderful hand and a bucket and other things.
The tapir is probably what the natives have reported as a river-horse, a much more appropriate name for it than for the African beast.
The remains of a tapir being found at Florence, with those of other quadrupeds usually exhibited by the Romans, was an unaccountable fact, till it was known, through Sir Stamford Raffles, that the tapirexists in Sumatra.
The discovery of this tapir shows how little is yet known even of those countries in which Britain has, for a length of years, had establishments.
The tapir leads a very solitary life, being met with alone, or sometimes in the company of the female.
The result of the tapir chase determined Guapo to have himself better armed.
Guapo knew this well, and had already, while over among the palms, marked the track of the one that came nightly to the stream, and had settled it in his mind that that particular tapir had not many days to live.
The tapiris not a burrowing animal, and therefore would not require to be "dug out.
They made no unnecessary noise--lest the tapir might be frightened from its path--but ran on in silence.
The tapir stopped feeding for a moment, but then recommenced, though evidently not with as much eagerness as before.
The tapir is a harmless creature, and although it has a good set of teeth, it never uses them for the purpose of defending itself.
He would have chosen the twilight of the evening or morning, and would have hid himself in the bushes, so as to command a view of the track which the tapir would be certain to take on his way to or from the water.
Leon had got round upon the side next the river, but he chanced to be on the wrong side just then; for the heavy tapir dashing past, knocked against him, and sent him sprawling among the trees.
But Guapo had promised him that he should see the tapir trapped in an hour's time.
It now only remained to get the tapir into it, but therein lay the difficulty.
Guapo was busy plucking his macaws, but at the word tapir he sprang to his feet, making the feathers fly in all directions.
It consists of a strong frame of twisted creeping plants, over which the skin of a deer or tapir is stretched and fastened with twine.
Waldeck concludes that the supposed elephant's head may be that of a tapir, 'quoiqu'il existe parmi ces memes ruines des figures de tapir bien plus ressemblantes.
Waldeck mentions an excavation in a garden of the city, which is twenty-three by thirty feet, and fifteen feet deep, with double walls three and six feet thick, where the bones of a tapir and other bones were dug up.
See, the back of the latter is bleeding and torn from the rough branches beneath which the tapir has carried it.
Fortunately the tapir was frightened, or they would have found him more than a match for them.
The tapir dashed under it, and we could hear the crash of the jaguar's head as it came in contact with the hard wood.
I have described the tapir here as it was the first I met, but I afterwards had better opportunities of observing the animal.
As he spoke, the animals came close to us, the tapir making for the thick branch of a fallen tree kept up by a network of sipos, which hung like a beam almost horizontally a few feet from the ground.
He told us, it was a jaguar, which had sprung upon the back of a large tapir while the animal was feeding in the woods behind our tambo.
A tapir which I shot as it swam across the water had his nose bitten off by them whilst we were towing it to the shore.
It was enough for me to see them strip the flesh from the palms of the hands and the soles of the feet and fry these delicacies in the lard of tapir I hoped to see no more.
The tapir started for the creek in the hope of knocking the jaguar off its back by rushing through the underbrush; not succeeding in this, its next hope was the water in the creek.
We did not see or hear monkeys, and notapir or jaguar crossed our path.
Besides the knife hanging from his girdle, the Guaycurus chief had placed on the ground near him a quiver of tapir skin, four feet long, and filled with arrows.
A tapir which I shot swimming across the river had its nose eaten off by them whilst we were towing it to the shore.
Many of the Indian hunting-dogs trained for deer or tapir will hunt tigers.
The tapir is very common in the warm regions of South America, where it inhabits the forests, leading a solitary life, and seldom stirring from its retreat during the day, which it passes in a state of tranquil slumber.
Its anatomy is much like that of the rhinoceros, while in general form the tapirreminds us of the hog.
The Indian tapir greatly resembles its American relative; it feeds on vegetables, and is very partial to the sugar-cane.
Although the tapir inhabits the water, he does not feed upon fish; and although his mouth is armed with twenty sharp and incisive teeth, he is not carnivorous.
N] Sonnini says, that it is true the tapir goes out principally in the night, but he is also to be met with in the day.
The tapir is of the size of a small cow or zebu, but without horns or tail; his legs are short, and his body arched like that of a hog.
The Colombian tapir is known as the Tapirus Roulini, and is slightly smaller than the Brazilian species (T.
Spots and cross stripes are found in the Marsupials; the young Tapir is spotted while the adult is self-coloured, and so forth.
It was intermediate between a Tapir and a Rhinoceros in size.
We have seen that the order of Pachydermata, which furnished the Ancient World with the most gigantic species of the terrestrial creation, is represented in the New World by comparatively insignificant types: the Tapir and the Peccary.
Two species are distinguished, which both inhabit South America,--the American Tapir and the Tapir Pinchaca.
The Tapir Pinchaca appears to be confined to the region of the Cordilleran table-lands.
This tapiris as common at Malacca as the rhinoceros and elephant.
In the Chaco the tapir or anta (Tapir americanus) still finds a safe retreat, and the peccary (Dycotyles torquatus) ranges from Cordoba north to the Bolivian frontier.
Of the indigenous fauna, the tapir of the north and the guanaco of the west and south are the largest of the animals.
On the farther side of the river was a deserted house, and we could distinctly trace the heavy footprints of a tapir leading up the path and through the open doorway.
Whereas the tapirhas a hog-like skin, the ant-bear has long, bristly hairs.
Once they started a giant tapir taking his afternoon snooze.
Our engraving shows that the five days old tapir resembles its mother in form, although its marking is quite different.
At the edge of the earth he caught the tapir and killed him; yet the creature's shadow arose from the body and kept on its flight with the wife.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tapir" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
