Edited sentence: (See Guns, Germs, and Steel p.162-167, and "Evolution, consequences and future of plant and animal domestication, Nature 418:700-707 [2002].The argument has been made by members of FARMS, that tapirs are the animal refered to as "horses" in the Book of Mormon.The biologist Jared Diamond has noted that only one large mammal, the llama, was domesticated in the ancient Americas.These individuals argue that a translation error lead to the tapir being misidentified as a horse.This of course is nothing more than apologetic conjecture, with little or no evidence to support the claims that tapirs were used as work animals by ancient Americans