Talk:Tapir

message: A tapir is a large, browing animal
:Just one question... what is a browing animal? ;) --Dante Alighieri 11:21 18 Jun 2003 (UTC)
::Probably browsing animal — herbivores that eat grass, like cows. This can usually be determined by what kind of teeth the animal has. --69.214.226.102 00:42, 8 May 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: A browsing animal eats leaves branches off trees and shrubs..  Cows are grazers, deer are browsers. 66.108.117.254 18:32, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Question 

message: I just expanded the Corcovado National Park stub in which I wrote that it is sizeable enough to support a sizeable population of tapirs. I think I remember hearing that this is one of the few remaining areas where such a large population still remains. Is this true? DirkvdM 19:07, 18 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Corcovado 

message: The article states that the Korean name is "niya", but the Korean syllagram given is 맥 which, as far as I'm aware, is "mait", not "niya".  Comments?  Tomertalk 11:09, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm not an expert on mammals or mythology, but all the Korean references to real tapirs that I've read have used maek. (Hangul: 맥, Hanja: 貊.) --KJ 12:46, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It seems it was due to vandalism. I've put maek back in, and reverted some other edits. --KJ 05:28, 21 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Korean language|Korean]] name 

message: do they eat ants as well? Chensiyuan 07:44, 23 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Not on purpose, at least!  They're strictly vegetarian.  They do often get mistaken for anteaters, but their long noses are used to grab at vegetation rather than get at insects.  - Sasha Kopf 17:09, 23 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: diet

message: I hope I didn't step on anyone's toes, but I took out some of the cultural references listed in the article.  There have been enough now it didn't seem feasible to keep adding brief mentions and one-liners alluding to tapirs, so I tried to pare it down to instances where tapirs are featured more prominently.  However, if anyone thinks that was a mistake or if I accidentally took out something that really belongs there, please go ahead and fix it with my apologies.  - Sasha Kopf 00:54, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Cultural References Section

message: Why is "sexy" used for the pronunciation guide?  I didn't change it because I couldn't tell if it's actually correct, but (1) I don't think it is correct and (2) if it is, there has to be a better word.
:That was just vandalism.  It's been reverted back now.  In the future, if you think something like that is incorrect, a good way to verify is to check the history of the page to see if the questionable assertion is a recent change that's a big departure from previous versions.  If so, it's likely to be vandalism.  - Sasha Kopf 02:51, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Sexy" pronunciation? 

message: Here is a reference to an image from 1791 that shows a “dream-eating” Japanese supernatural creature that has an elephant’s trunk and tusks. It is NOT a zoological tapir.
Kern, Adam L. 2007 Manga from the Floating World: Comicbook culture and the kibyoshi of Edo Japan. Cambridge: Harvard University Asian Center. page 236, figure 4.26.
It has tusks, a long trunk, a semi-human face, horns, and a body drawn in swirls and whorls rather like a dragon. Kern calls this creature a “baku.” I’d download the image except that that really would be copyright violation.
By contrast, *modern* dream-eating creatures in manga and anime are unmistakably zoological tapirs. Here’s a reference to Takahashi Rumiko’s dream-eating tapir (the original dates from the early 1980s):
Takahashi Rumiko 1995 Waking to a nightmare. In: The Return of Lum: Urusei Yatsura. San Francisco: Viz. pages 141-156.
So there you have it. The Edo period dream-eater was drawn in at least some contemporary Japanese sources with an elephant’s head. Modern Japanese dream-eaters are zoological tapirs.
Timothy Perper 14:31, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:   VERIFIABILITY issues: tapirs vs. elephants 

message: These guys are so cool. I love the tapir. Why is this page not have more on it? There are all sorts of tapir that you miss off! Why not a big heap of all the documented tapir you can find anywhere. I wish we could have more. Also possibly a link to a site where I can buy or hire a tapir for myself to keep? 217.36.215.32 15:39, 7 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Check out Sasha Kopf's Wikipedia user page. You can find the link at the very top of the tapir talk page. Her website has more material on tapirs. Timothy Perper 23:19, 7 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  I love these little guys! 

message: In roughly the center of the article are two pictures of tapir feet, side by side with the caption; '"The undersides of the front (left, with four toes) and back (right, with three toes) feet of a Malayan tapir at rest". Here's the problem: Unless my eyes deceive me, BOTH photos display a four toed foot! Am I mistaken, or should this picture & caption be scrapped? Rearden Metal 03:19, 27 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Hi Rearden Metal - I think your eyes deceive you.  (As the person who took the pictures and labeled them, I can attest to the right number of toes.)  I wonder if maybe the middle toe on the back feet is causing a problem?  It's sort of a funny shape, and I can see how it would look like a fourth toe.  However, if you think the pictures will cause confusion, perhaps one image or both should be removed.  - Sasha Kopf 04:07, 27 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Too many toes!

message: Are tapirs kosher animals? 65.95.59.86 (talk) 15:42, 10 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: No, they are not, as tapirs are not cloven-hoofed, and do not produce or chew cud (these being the requirements for a mammal to be kosher).--Mr Fink (talk) 15:55, 10 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Dumb Question

message: Dutch naturalist Marc van Roosmalen claims to have discovered a new species of tapir. Is this discovery accepted by the scientific community?? 
Here's the link: http://www.marcvanroosmalen.org/dwarftapir.htm
189.70.65.130 (talk) 01:41, 6 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: The fast answer is no, and it is bordering WP:Fringe. It has not received widespread recognition by the scientific community, and falls within the same category as the Dwarf Manatee (which see) described by the same author, van Roosmalen. 212.10.74.234 (talk) 03:57, 6 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: New Species??

message: "...G-banded preparations have revealed that Malayan, Baird’s and Brazilian Tapirs have identical X chromosomes, while Mountain Tapirs are separated by a heterochromatic addition/deletion..."
What is the conclusion of that? Malayan or Mountain tapirs are phylogeneticaly closer to the other two species? The heterochromatic addition/deletion could be an apomorphy of the mountain tapir that happened before or after the geographic isolation of the asian from the american species?--92.118.191.48 (talk) 10:32, 23 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  phyloGENETICS 

message: I ahve removed the translated binomials from the taxonomy section.  With only a few noted exceptions, extinct taxa from before the 1600s do not actually have a common name and should be referred to by the scientific name. --Kevmin (talk) 06:03, 12 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Extinct taxa

message: Need a source that they are also known as danta? Google it! --Japoniano (talk) 21:27, 3 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: http://www.tapirs.org/tapirs/bairds.html Zeimusu | Talk page 15:18, 7 July 2009 (UTC)

text: The citation provided does not indicate that this is an English name, implying that it is a Spanish one, nor does it indicate that the name applies to tapirs in general, implying that it refers specifically to Baird's tapir. So I'm afraid that it is, at the moment, inadequate to support the claim being made. Anaxial (talk) 11:43, 6 August 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Zeimusu's source says "Other names: Tapir, danta (Spanish), mountain cow (Belize), macho del monte (Colombia & Costa Rica)." Google Translate says "danta" simply means "tapir" in Spanish. As this is the English wikipedia, I'm not so sure how relevant these "other names" are to the article. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 11:58, 6 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Danta 

message: The Pokemon Drowzee is a tapir, it's Pokedex entry also mentions it being related to Baku.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 156.34.177.156 (talk) 14:39, 4 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cultural reference 

message: The article says it takes at least three years to reach sexual maturity, so there is a dating problem with the sentence:
Hybrid tapirs from the Baird's Tapir and the Brazilian Tapir were bred at the San Francisco Zoo around 1969 and produced a second generation around 1970.
The reference does not include the 1969 date. Wakablogger2 (talk) 19:26, 11 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  hybrid dating 

message: I think a picture of a tapir skull would be more appropriate than a rough sketch of one.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Burriloom (talk • contribs) 02:12, 21 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pictures 

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message: If you are experienced with cladograms, could you add the Malayan tapir to the "Evolution" section of this article? Ddum5347 (talk) 00:01, 10 March 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Nvm, I figured it out. thanks for ignoring me Ddum5347 (talk) 18:04, 10 March 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cladogram? 

message: ??? 37.39.221.61 (talk) 19:59, 1 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Can tapir walk on bottom of ponds and rivers? 

message: Horses, Tapirs & Rhinoceroses
Although superficially these animals might not seem related, they all belong to the order Perissodactyla, or odd-toed ungulates. The three families included (Equidae, Rhinocerotidae, and Tapiridae) have a total of 17 species between them, including the horse, donkey, ass, zebra, tapir, and rhinoceros. They are a beautiful example of related animals evolving to adapt to different lifestyles, this case animals respectively living in open areas such as grasslands and steppes (horses), dry savannas, and in Asia, wet marsh or forest areas (rhinos), and mainly tropical rainforests (tapirs).
The British zoologist Richard Owen recognised that all these animals were closely related and coined the name for this order. Their most easily recognisable shared trait is the odd number of toes, but another remarkable shared trait is that they are all hindgut fermenters. They store digested food that has left the stomach in an enlarged part of the digestive tract called the cecum (in humans this is the part at the beginning of the large intestine to which the appendix is connected) where it is digested by bacteria.
https://www.nhbs.com/3/horses-tapirs-rhinoceroses
https://www.nhbs.com/ 
Oftapirs (talk) 20:38, 9 September 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Sorry, but all of this is already in the article, and does not need to be added, with the exception of the information about Richard Owen, which belongs at Perissodactyla. Anaxial (talk) 21:04, 9 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 9 September 2023