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.
From the Series: Brazil Untamed: Bird Paradise bit.ly/2Z9QCxp

[@PaulKapow]

Wow tapirs are so beautiful

[@stevelofts8135]

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

[@Knappa22]

I love the way his lil snout moves. Cuuuute!

[@travisberry3466]

I swear, u watch one video about a mantis and 3 hours later u seen everything in the animal kingdom

[@mortalclown3812]

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

[@iangranada7974]

Then go watch your mantis

[@LocalUrbanLegend]

honestly,, what a wonderful time to be alive 🙌

[@patricksnyder7724]

This is my new favorite animal

[@stevelofts8135]

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

[@marshthefox6668]

Interesting animal, really amazing how good it swims.

[@danielbrathwaite8822]

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

[@stevelofts8135]

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

[@YourPalAl69]

Drowzee drowzee drowze!

[@jarb151]

Drowzer should have been psychic and water type

[@calisorbit]

Awwww their so adorable!!

[@huejass3]

Their main predator. The Jag Goo Waur

[@stevelofts8135]

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

[@darknightmike10yearsago]

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

[@iVuDang]

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

[@patrickkissane4341]

It's a Beautiful thing.

[@redemissarium]

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

[@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

[@yseson_]

@@leviroch exactly

[@leviroch]

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

[@yseson_]

@@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.

[@simonj3413]

Or sirenians

[@iReppoGames]

Found out about these animals when playing Far Cry 3 lol

[@-KillaWatt-]

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

[@sprucesoldier]

What an awesome Critter!😲

[@jaredmn8580]

They look so prehistoric

[@christinelyman738]

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

[@tuanminhnguyen9312]

Awww it looks so cute!

[@Kiridiam]

*"tHe JaH-goO-aRe"*

[@ophirbactrius8285]

*"HAH-NEI-BAD-JER"*

[@BlockyMountainLion]

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

[@soselboos4842]

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

[@Cerulium]

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

[@ElPlomeroChingon]

Hung like a tapir 🤣😂

[@JMWIJTSMA]

underrated!

[@DonnaReidPhotography]

Love!

[@panossialmas7582]

amazin!

[@TheKingDrew]

Wow that is cool

[@xoxo5617]

they’re like hippos 🦛

[@leiajiang7877]

Cute

[@heidivillaran4215]

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.

[@brendan5825]

So Tapir = Forest Hippo?

[@Ethan_Hagen]

Tapir.

[@zayfobbs6420]

nice

[@Cleeon]

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

[@thescauldron8436]

I’ve been spelling tapir wrong my whole life

[@yseson_]

How did you spell it?

[@ascetic3312]

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

[@thescauldron8436]

Yseson _ ta-peer instead of tae-peer

[@mohinderjitaujla6245]

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[@DeathPoker1]

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).

[@pedrocampos691]

Asia.

[@stoopconvo2924]

Everything in South America is semiaquatic

[@omarsaifan4724]

سبحان الله الخالق العظيم

[@hanifanshori4068]

😊😊😊

[@diegogonzalez-pc6nv]

I wish that tapis not indignature

[@SometingCreative]

tapirs are mermaids

[@nucleardino8992]

You mean manatees are mermaids?

[@SometingCreative]

@@nucleardino8992 tapirs are mermaids.

[@thething9915]

Tapirs are whale

[@Foxtrop13]

*they dont use their nose as a snorkle

[@bleuemoone8710]

Guy kinda sounds like zefrank

[@simonj3413]

BlueM00n that’s what I was thinking

[@pedrocampos691]

India.

[@ryanjones7681]

Rhinocerci

[@douzigege]

from arknights!!!!

[@hkkhgffh3613]

I wanna grab the Tapir by his trunk!

[@siyandavilakazi781]

This is how we got whales

[@IAMKNOWINGREADINGS]

This a dinosaur.

[@werewook]

pige

[@ericaalexander5144]

Cute