🍃 FUN FACTS about TAPIRS! How much do you know about our wiggly nosed friends? 💁 From their unique noses to what they like to eat, Keeper Megan tells us more | Longleat

Have you ever seen a #tapir? At 1st glance, it looks like an animal straight out of a strange dream: it has the body of a pig and the nose of an elephant. Yet it’s a serene #mammal that helps grow the forest. Its small eyes shine with curiosity, its little #trunk moves from side to side sniffing the air and its slow, steady steps exude a calm that seems almost incompatible with the noisy tropical #forest. The tapir is one of the most important - and least known - animals of the forests of the Am

World Tapir Day and Iibu zoomies 💚 Baird's Tapir Facts: 👉Nose & upper lip combine into a flexible snout like an elephant's trunk 👉Four toes on front foot, three on back 👉Teardrop body - tapered in the front, wider at the rear, to help walk through thick vegetation. | Milwaukee County Zoo

What do you think Mojito the mountain tapir is smelling? 👃 Tapirs raise their long, wiggly nose to expose the Jacobson's organ at the roof of their mouth to better inhale scents and pheromones. This is called a flehmen response, and it looks like, well, this. 😛 #TapirTuesday #MountainTapir #Tapir | Los Angeles Zoo

The South American tapir (Tapirus terrestris), is the largest and heaviest land mammal in the Amazon rainforest, reaching up to 250 kilograms. With its flexible snout and herbivorous diet, it roams long distances feeding on leaves, shoots, and fruits, dispersing thousands of seeds that give life to new trees. Jaguars, caimans, and anacondas are among its main predators. When threatened, its instinct leads it to seek refuge in the water, where it reveals itself as a surprisingly skilled swimmer.