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Guatemala, Nicaragua and Costa Rica. (B) With the bony partition not extending farther forward than the nasal bones (Tapirus proper). This includes three species, T. indicus, the largest of the genus, from the See also:

MALAY

Malay See also:

Peninsula (as far See also:

north as See also:

TAVOY

Tavoy and See also:

MERGUI

Mergui), See also:

SUMATRA

Sumatra Species. L Larva.

Intermediate See also:

HOST

Host. Cysticercus cellulosae Cysticercus bovis Unknown Echinococcus veterinorum E. multilocularis T. hominis (v. Linst.) . . Unknown See also:

Sus scrofa See also:

BOS, LAMBERT (1670—1717)

Bos See also:

TAURUS (" the Bull ")

Taurus See also:

Man and domestic See also:

CATTLE (Norman Fr. catel, from Late Lat. capitale, wealth or property, a word applied in the feudal system to movable property and particularly to live stock, and surviving in its wider meaning as " chattel " or " chattle ")

cattle, See also:

sheep, See also:

pig 414 and See also:

BORNEO

Borneo, distinguished by its See also:

PECULIAR

peculiar coloration, the head, See also:

NECK (O. Eng. hnecca; the word appears in many Teutonic languages; cf. Dutch ride, Ger. Nacken; in O. E. the common word was heals; cf. Ger. Hals)

neck, fore and hind limbs being glossy See also:

black, and the inter-mediate See also:

PART

part of the See also:

BODY

body See also:

white, the height at the See also:

SHOULDER (in O.E. sculder, cognate with Ger. Schulter, Dutch schouder, Swed. skuldra, &c; the root is unknown)

shoulder from 3 ft. to 3 ft. 6 ins., and 4 ins. higher at the rump; T. terrestris, the See also:

COMMON

common tapir of the forests and lowlands of See also:

Brazil and See also:

PARAGUAY

Paraguay; and T. roulini, the Pinchaque tapir of the high regions of the See also:

ANDES

Andes. All the See also:

AMERICAN

American species are of a nearly See also:

UNIFORM

uniform dark See also:

brown or blackish See also:

COLOUR (Lat. color, connected with celare, to hide, the root meaning, therefore, being that of a covering)

colour when adult; but it is a curious circumstance that when See also:

young (and in this the Malay species conforms with the others) they are conspicuously marked with spots and See also:

LONGITUDINAL

longitudinal stripes of white or fawn colour on a darker ground. In habits all tapirs appear to be very similar. They are solitary, nocturnal, shy and inoffensive, chiefly frequenting the depths of shady forests and the neighbourhood of See also:

WATER

water, to which they frequently resort for the purpose of bathing, and in which they often take See also:

REFUGE

refuge when pursued. They feed on various See also:

VEGETABLE

vegetable substances, as shoots of trees and bushes, American Tapir (Tapirus). buds and leaves, and are hunted by the natives of the lands in which they live for the See also:

SAKE

sake of their hides and flesh. The singular fact of the existence of animals so closely allied as the Malayan and the American tapirs in such distant regions of the See also:

earth and in no intervening places is accounted for by the See also:

GEOLOGICAL

geological See also:

HISTORY

history of the See also:

RACE

race, for the tapirs once had a very wide See also:

DISTRIBUTION (Lat. distribuere, to deal out)

distribution. There is no See also:

PROOF (in M. Eng. preove, proeve, preve, &°c., from O. Fr . prueve, proeve, &c., mod. preuve, Late. Lat. proba, probate, to prove, to test the goodness of anything, probus, good)

proof of their having lived in the Oligocene See also:

EPOCH (Gr. E7roxij, holding in suspense, a pause, from E1rxav, to hold up, to stop)

epoch, but in deposits of Miocene and See also:

PLIOCENE (from the Gr. sr?eiov, mere, and xatvbs, recent)

Pliocene date remains undistinguishable generically and perhaps specifically from the See also:

MODERN

modern tapirs (though named T. See also:

PRISCUS

priscus, T. arvernensis, &c.) have been found in See also:

France, See also:

Germany and in the Red See also:

CRAG (a Celtic word, cf. Gael. creag, Manx creg, and Welsh and modern Scots craig)

Crag of See also:

Suffolk.

Tapirs appear, however, to have become See also:

EXTINCT

extinct in See also:

EUROPE

Europe before the See also:

PLEISTOCENE

Pleistocene period, as none of their bones or See also:

TEETH (O.E. Eel); plural of tooth, O.E. top)

teeth have been found in any of the caves or alluvial deposits in which those of elephants, rhinoceroses and hippopotamuses occur in abundance; but in other regions their distribution at this See also:

AGE (Fr. age, through late Lat. aetaticum, from aetas)

age was far wider than at See also:

PRESENT

present, as they are known to have extended eastward to See also:

CHINA

China (T. sinensis) and westwards over the greater part of the See also:

SOUTHERN

southern See also:

UNITED

United States of America, from See also:

South Carolina to See also:

California. Thus there is no difficulty in tracing the common origin in the Miocene tapirs of Europe of the now widely separated American and See also:

ASIATIC

Asiatic species. It is, moreover, interesting to observe how slight an amount of variation has taken See also:

PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place in forms isolated during such an enormous See also:

time. See See also:

PERISSODACTYLA (i.e. odd-toed)

PERISSODACTYLA. (W. H. F.; R.

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