Why Tapirs Love Spending So Much Time Underwater

Tapirs love to dive into the water, where they’ll use their snout as a snorkel. There, they can evade jaguars, eat aquatic plants and wash off ticks.
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I swear, u watch one video about a mantis and 3 hours later u seen everything in the animal kingdom

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Underrated comment, bro. And I get lost watching Ze Frank videos after that...

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Then go watch your mantis

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honestly,, what a wonderful time to be alive 🙌

[@Knappa22]

I love the way his lil snout moves. Cuuuute!

[@PaulKapow]

Wow tapirs are so beautiful

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You bet!!! Great to cuddle, too, if they let you...

[@danielbrathwaite8822]

I tried looking for this animal in Costa Rica but only saw its footprints. They're fast!

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They can be very fast; very friendly animals when they know you...

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This is my new favorite animal

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Good on ya! My granddaughter loves ' em best, too.

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Interesting animal, really amazing how good it swims.

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I remember seeing these animals in the movie Ice Age. "Move your issues off the road!"

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human: " why do tapirs like spending so much time underwater "
tapir: " because I'm a good boi "

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Drowzee drowzee drowze!

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Drowzer should have been psychic and water type

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Their main predator. The Jag Goo Waur

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Their main predators are the jaguars and the native people of the jungle...

[@calisorbit]

Awwww their so adorable!!

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Hooookay, basically a crossover of horse, pig, elephant and hippo 😅

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*"tHe JaH-goO-aRe"*

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Found out about these animals when playing Far Cry 3 lol

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I knew about them before that but when I hear about them I think of Far Cry Primal. I haven't played 3.

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They look so prehistoric

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That's why they were in the opening scene of 2001: A Space Odyssey!

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What an awesome Critter!😲

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Awww it looks so cute!

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Imagine if pigs would do this, they would eat the whole rivers haha

[@yseson_]

They seem to be filling the niche held by the pakicetus millions of years ago, their bodies even seem similar. Its descendents may one day become the next _whales_ millions of years from now.

[@leviroch]

That was my thought. . . Following the exact same evolutionary path. . . Convergent evolution occuring right before our eyes

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@@leviroch exactly

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Although lets be honest, itll never progress along the path any further. . . Theyll only have a few more generations before extinction. . .anthropocene extinction holds no preferences

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@@leviroch at the height of the anthropocene man will be able to clone anything and evolve it in _real_ _time_ down various paths. We'll break the world to see how it works, fix it then copy it on other worlds, we are the engineers.

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Or sirenians

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It's a Beautiful thing.

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Love!

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they’re like hippos 🦛

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Wow that is cool

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underrated!

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im honestly suprised tapirs dont fear any caimans, especially black caiman, as they are one of the most plentiful megafauna in the amazon

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Hung like a tapir 🤣😂

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Cute

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How do scientists know for example that the toes are for not sliding on mud underwater? Do they just observe it or do they somehow test to prove that that is the reason for x feature? Just curious.

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amazin!

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nice

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I’ve been spelling tapir wrong my whole life

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How did you spell it?

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Did you mean to say that you've been saying "tapir" wrong your whole life?

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Yseson _ ta-peer instead of tae-peer

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Living in rainforest jungle in summer, that's the answer

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Tapir.

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0:49 how I look at my last slice of pizza

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So what is a rhino and a horse related too if this thing is related to both of those

[@-KillaWatt-]

Horses and Rhino's along with tapirs, are part of a biological group known as perissodactyls or odd-toed ungulates. Scientists have found that there is a common ancestor but as far as I could find there is no example of that creature. I think much of what we know is genetic. Which is likely more than enough but a physical specimen of its skeletal remains would give a better idea to the layman (me and you).

[@brendan5825]

So Tapir = Forest Hippo?

[@Foxtrop13]

*they dont use their nose as a snorkle

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😊😊😊

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tapirs are mermaids

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You mean manatees are mermaids?

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@@nucleardino8992 tapirs are mermaids.

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Tapirs are whale

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Guy kinda sounds like zefrank

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BlueM00n that’s what I was thinking

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Everything in South America is semiaquatic

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Asia.

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Rhinocerci

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This is how we got whales

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India.

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from arknights!!!!

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This a dinosaur.

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pige

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I wanna grab the Tapir by his trunk!

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Cute