How to Use tapir in a Sentence

tapir

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• Luna, a Baird’s tapir at the San Diego Zoo, is a new mom.
  — Julia Daye, Sacramento Bee, 1 July 2024
• Hu’s team also found in the tomb a complete skeleton of a Malaysian tapir.
  — Lyric Li, Washington Post, 9 Aug. 2023
• Luna, a Baird’s tapir, had to wait 13 months for her new son to arrive on June 13.
  — Bradley J. Fikes, sandiegouniontribune.com, 3 July 2018
• These open meat markets that serve everything from bats to tapirs to snake to dog meat.
  — Todd J. Gillman, Dallas News, 18 Mar. 2020
• Related to horses and rhinoceroses, the Malayan tapir can weigh as much as 800 pounds.
  — Anna Lazarus Caplan, Peoplemag, 1 Mar. 2023
• Under a full moon on a hazy morning, a lowland tapir ambles down a road.
  — National Geographic, 13 Jan. 2023
• Dogs are attacking mountain tapirs in the cloud forests of Colombia.
  — Harper's Magazine, 25 June 2024
• This tapir has a face full of mud after feeding at a natural salt lick.
  — Discover Staff, Discover Magazine, 16 May 2016
• Malayan tapirs, native to the East Indies, may also make their way to Sacramento.
  — Cynthia Hubert, sacbee.com, 16 June 2017
• The two sloshed through thickets of short, wrist-thick trees, along muddy trails that Inuma said had been worn down by tapirs (somewhat akin to wild boars).
  — Daniel Grossman, Scientific American, 5 Feb. 2020
• Rabbits, tapirs, porcupines, pigs, and birds are among the fallen at the country’s northern zoo.
  — Carlos Jasso, National Geographic, 28 July 2016
• Based on the size of the skull, the rhino had a long thick neck, a deeper nasal cavity, and a short trunk similar to that of a modern-day tapir, reports the BBC.
  — Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 June 2021
• Such big urban centers require lots of food, and the Mayans hunted deer, peccaries, and tapirs.
  — Michael Price, Science | AAAS, 19 Mar. 2018
• The species may have played a role similar to what tapirs and monkeys play today, as a fruit eater and large seed disperser that helped the forest thrive.
  — Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 27 Oct. 2023
• This year, the reforestation team found prints from a tapir, a hog-like mammal that was once extirpated from the area.
  — Gabe Allen, Discover Magazine, 20 Nov. 2021
• The Baird’s tapir resembles a silly cross between a pig and an elephant with a truncated trunk.
  — Bradley J. Fikes, sandiegouniontribune.com, 3 July 2018
• Nashville Zoo Animal Care staff waited more than 13 months for the arrival of this baby Baird's tapir.
  — Discover Magazine, 17 Apr. 2015
• Mostly nocturnal, tapirs are herbivores who eat up to 75 pounds of leaves, plants and fruit daily.
  — Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 29 June 2023
• The Zoo Miami tapir's escape comes on the heels of other alarming zoo incidents.
  — Anna Lazarus Caplan, Peoplemag, 1 Mar. 2023
• Eight species have been released in Iberá, including the giant anteater, pampas deer, red-and-green macaw, tapir, and, most controversially, the jaguar.
  — Alex Postman, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 Apr. 2022
• However, unlike Nyota, she has not been introduced to her fellow Baird's tapir, Iibu, a 6-year-old male.
  — Amy Schwabe, Journal Sentinel, 13 May 2024
• The lowland tapir and the giant anteater are both considered vulnerable.
  — Jill Langlois, National Geographic, 2 Oct. 2020
• Herpetologists described the tapir frog after following its beep-beep-beep call through the jungles of the Putumayo Basin at night.
  — Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper’s Magazine , 27 Apr. 2022
• This area will feature jaguars, monkeys, giant river otters, capybaras, birds and tapirs.
  — Rebecca Hazen, Houston Chronicle, 9 Apr. 2018
• Visit the zoo in the morning and discover the national animal of Belize, the tapir; then meet an orphaned jaguar known as Junior Buddy.
  — National Geographic, 10 Sep. 2019
• Ride a longboat down the Tiputini River with an indigenous guide, who will help us spot turtles, tapirs, and caimans bobbing at the water’s surface.
  — National Geographic, 10 Sep. 2019
• But stable isotopes in their teeth now suggest that the saber-toothed cats were feeding on animals like camels, tapir and even deer in forested environments.
  — Connor Lynch, Discover Magazine, 21 Dec. 2022
• Wild inhabitants include the resplendent quetzal, rare species of glass frogs, and elusive animals such as the Baird’s tapir.
  — National Geographic, 8 Apr. 2019
• She is memorialized in a salsa song popular among Venezuelans, and a statue of her naked and sitting astride a wild tapir stands in the center-divide of a Caracas highway.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Oct. 2019
• Baird’s tapirs, which were named in honor of the American naturalist Spencer Fullerton Baird, are endangered.
  — Julia Daye, Sacramento Bee, 1 July 2024

Last Updated: 12 Nov 2024