Tapirs love to dive into the water, where they’ll use their snout as a snorkel. There, they can evade jaguars, eat aquatic plants and wash off ticks. From the Series: Brazil Untamed: Bird Paradise bit.ly/2Z9QCxp
They seem to be filling the niche held by the pakicetus millions of years ago, their bodies even seem similar. Its descendents may one day become the next _whales_ millions of years from now.
Although lets be honest, itll never progress along the path any further. . . Theyll only have a few more generations before extinction. . .anthropocene extinction holds no preferences
@@leviroch at the height of the anthropocene man will be able to clone anything and evolve it in _real_ _time_ down various paths. We'll break the world to see how it works, fix it then copy it on other worlds, we are the engineers.
How do scientists know for example that the toes are for not sliding on mud underwater? Do they just observe it or do they somehow test to prove that that is the reason for x feature? Just curious.
Horses and Rhino's along with tapirs, are part of a biological group known as perissodactyls or odd-toed ungulates. Scientists have found that there is a common ancestor but as far as I could find there is no example of that creature. I think much of what we know is genetic. Which is likely more than enough but a physical specimen of its skeletal remains would give a better idea to the layman (me and you).
