Definitionn. large inoffensive chiefly nocturnal ungulate of tropical America and southeast Asia having a heavy body and fleshy snout
Last update: June 9, 2015
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We can see tapir in the zoo. [Please select]
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The Sumatran tapir, too, is a creature that does not readily succumb to its assailant, being larger and stronger than its namesake of South America. [Please select]
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Then there is the story of how the tortoise pretended that he was stronger than the tapir. [Please select]
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Bates remarks that the tapir, though often kept tame in Amazonia by the Indians, never breeds. [Please select]
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The tapir gave the nose a little twist, and the finger lay on the floor. [Please select]
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The master of the horse Curdie gave in charge to the tapir. [Please select]
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A full-grown tapir was recently at the Zoological Gardens, in London, which seemed to thrive very well. [Please select]
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The struggle between the whale and tapir goes on until each thinks the tortoise is the strongest of animals. [Please select]
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Mason writes: "Though seen so rarely, the tapir is by no means uncommon in the interior of the Tavoy and Mergui provinces." [Please select]
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He tells the latter he can drag him into the sea, but the tapir retorts that he will pull the tortoise into the forest and kill him besides. [Please select]
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The tortoise thereupon gets a vine-stem, ties one end around the body of the tapir, and goes to the sea, where he ties the other end to the tail of a whale. [Please select]
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