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| Brazilian tapir | |
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| Family: | Tapiridae Gray, 1821 |
| Genus: | Tapirus Brünnich, 1772 |
Tapirs are odd-toed ungulates form the family Tapiridae. The only living genus is Tapirus. The first tapirids appeared in the Eocene epoch, and by the Oligocene they looked similar to the present-day species. For much of their history, tapirs were spread across the Northern Hemisphere extinct as recently as 10,000 years ago.
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