...At present, we need not worry about the marsh deer, the pampas deer,the guemal, or the venado, nor the tapir, jaguar, ocelot and bears...
William T. Hornaday 「Our Vanishing Wild Life」
...“When full-grown, the tapir, or anta, as it is sometimes called, is six feet in length by four in height—its weight being nearly equal to that of a small bullock...
Mayne Reid 「The Hunters' Feast」
...It is, moreover, highly prehensile, and enables the tapir to seize the roots upon which it feeds with greater ease...
Mayne Reid 「The Hunters' Feast」
...“The tapir is an inhabitant of the tropical countries of America, dwelling near the banks of rivers and marshy lagoons...
Mayne Reid 「The Hunters' Feast」
...It is the American representative of the rhinoceros and hippopotamus, or, more properly, of the mäiba, or Indian tapir (Tapirus Indicus) of Sumatra, which has but lately become known to naturalists...
Mayne Reid 「The Hunters' Feast」
...The latter, in fact, is a near congener, and very much, resembles the tapir of South America...
Mayne Reid 「The Hunters' Feast」
...“The hunt of the tapir is one of the amusements, or rather employments, of the South-American Indians...
Mayne Reid 「The Hunters' Feast」
...“The tapir is hunted by bow and arrow, or by the gun...
Mayne Reid 「The Hunters' Feast」
...“Sometimes, when the whereabouts of a tapir has been discovered, a whole tribe sally out, and take part in the hunt...
Mayne Reid 「The Hunters' Feast」
...“But the nobler beast, the tapir, occupied all our thoughts; and leaving the capivaras to be gathered in by the women, the hunters got back to their posts in a few seconds...
Mayne Reid 「The Hunters' Feast」
...“‘Ugh!’ cried he, as he shook the water from his thick tresses, and beckoned me to assist him—‘Ugh! Senhor, you eat roast tapir for dinner...
Mayne Reid 「The Hunters' Feast」
...“I pulled him into the boat, and afterwards assisted to haul up the huge body of the slain tapir...
Mayne Reid 「The Hunters' Feast」
..." The Tapir iseasily tamed and even domesticated, though it must beadmitted it makes a somewhat huge pet...
Various 「Natural History in Anecdote」
...”The Zaparo Indians of Ecuador “will, unless from necessity,in most cases not eat any heavy meats, such as tapir and peccary,but confine themselves to birds, monkeys, deer, fish, etc...
Sir James George Frazer 「The Golden Bough」
...1) that represents a tapir, about whose neck is a string ofOliva shells...
Alfred M. Tozzer and Glover M. Allen 「Animal Figures in the Maya Codices」
...The short prehensile trunk of the tapir is well made andthe hoofs are likewise shown...
Alfred M. Tozzer and Glover M. Allen 「Animal Figures in the Maya Codices」
...Lucas, of theNational Museum, they all belong to modern species except one tooth,which is that of the cave tapir, and (possibly) the jaw of an otter...
Gerard Fowke 「Archeological Investigations」
...As Kay soared some three hundred feet overhead, a young tapir cameleaping out of the jungle and ran, apparently unconscious of theirpresence, right toward the monsters...
Various 「Astounding Stories of Super-Science, November, 1930」
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