Have you ever seen a #tapir? At 1st glance, it looks like an animal straight out of a strange dream: it has the body of a pig and the nose of an elephant. Yet it’s a serene #mammal that helps grow the forest. Its small eyes shine with curiosity, its little #trunk moves from side to side sniffing the air and its slow, steady steps exude a calm that seems almost incompatible with the noisy tropical #forest. The tapir is one of the most important - and least known - animals of the forests of the Am

World Tapir Day and Iibu zoomies 💚 Baird's Tapir Facts: 👉Nose & upper lip combine into a flexible snout like an elephant's trunk 👉Four toes on front foot, three on back 👉Teardrop body - tapered in the front, wider at the rear, to help walk through thick vegetation. | Milwaukee County Zoo