This is one confusing animal. Related to the rhinoceros, called a mountain cow, and having a flexible nose like an elephant, Baird's Tapir has to be seen to be believed.
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Rare Baby Malayan Tapir Born at Wild Animal Park
Keepers at Port Lympne Wild Animal Park near Ashford in Kent are delighted to announce the debut of Kejutan, an extremely rare Malayan tapir born just five weeks ago.
This new arrival is the ninth successful tapir birth at the park.
Tapirs are extremely threatened by the destruction or fragmentation of its rainforest habitat.
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Mountain Tapirs at Los Angeles Zoo
A couple of Mountain Tapirs (Tapirus pinchaque) getting into some horseplay after wallowing in their pool. I had never heard a tapir make a sound, and near the end of the video both tapirs begin squeaking and chirruping.
Also, this kind of 'cavorting' is interesting because it seems to be just ever so slightly 'suggestive' (I don't know the sex of either tapirs).
Either way, one seems to be into it and the other not so much :)