1/23/2004: Baby Tapir

Undertoad · 01-23-2004, 10:17 AM

Happy Friday! This little girl is a Brazilian Tapir, four weeks old, from the Dublin Zoo.

Tapirs have that strange coloration for the first year of their life. It's meant to camoflage them while they're on the ground of the forest.

Somehow they wound up with four toes on each front paw and three on each back paw.

You want one, sure, but they reach 600 lbs (224 kg).

wolf · 01-23-2004, 10:39 AM

600 lbs. Hmmm. Do they taste more like chicken or pork? Has anyone thought about ranching these things ... might be the next Ostrich.

hot_pastrami · 01-23-2004, 11:05 AM

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Originally posted by wolf
600 lbs. Hmmm. Do they taste more like chicken or pork? Has anyone thought about ranching these things ... might be the next Ostrich.

I was the next Ostrich once. It tingled.

FileNotFound · 01-23-2004, 11:40 AM

BIG Tapir - http://www.maykut.net/pictures/beliz.../011_tapir.jpg

And yes they are becoming extinct...

headsplice · 01-23-2004, 01:47 PM

mmmmm....General Tso's Tapir.....tapirlicious....

xoxoxoBruce · 01-23-2004, 11:03 PM

A 4 week old Brazilian girl running around Dublin? No wonder they're becoming extinct. Children shouldn't be running wild at that age.

lumberjim · 01-23-2004, 11:53 PM

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Originally posted by hot_pastrami

I was the next Ostrich once. It tingled.

you're one of the weekend warriors form the pot poll, aren't you?

hot_pastrami · 01-24-2004, 12:08 AM

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Originally posted by lumberjim
you're one of the weekend warriors form the pot poll, aren't you?

Dude... it's eerie how often I hear those exact words spoken to me. Cough.

Man, I've got the munchies...

xoxoxoBruce · 01-24-2004, 07:23 AM

Better the pot poll than Pol Pot.

Beletseri · 01-24-2004, 10:56 AM

That is just the cutest damn thing. Is it running or standing up to look at something?

Slartibartfast · 01-24-2004, 11:12 AM

He is adorable!

He is in motion- his center of gravity would make it impossible to be in that position motionless.

xoxoxoBruce · 01-24-2004, 11:47 AM

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Originally posted by Beletseri
That is just the cutest damn thing. Is it running or standing up to look at something?

She's running or perhaps bounding is more accurate for youth.

Griff · 01-24-2004, 03:37 PM

The girls loved it, nice catch UT!

warch · 01-26-2004, 11:14 AM

Years ago, as an impressionable girl, I saw a big, randy, male tapir getting ready to get it on. I've always remembered the Tapir. It was an education at the zoo.

Uryoces · 01-26-2004, 01:47 PM

Really primitive looking guys. They were in the prologue in 2001: A Space Oddysey along with the mimes.

01-23-2004, 10:17 AM	#1
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	1/23/2004: Baby Tapir Happy Friday! This little girl is a Brazilian Tapir, four weeks old, from the Dublin Zoo. Tapirs have that strange coloration for the first year of their life. It's meant to camoflage them while they're on the ground of the forest. Somehow they wound up with four toes on each front paw and three on each back paw. You want one, sure, but they reach 600 lbs (224 kg).

01-23-2004, 10:39 AM	#2
wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	600 lbs. Hmmm. Do they taste more like chicken or pork? Has anyone thought about ranching these things ... might be the next Ostrich. __________________ wolf eht htiw og "Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis

01-23-2004, 11:40 AM	#4
FileNotFound Intouch with his inner sheep rider. Join Date: Nov 2003 Posts: 603	BIG Tapir - http://www.maykut.net/pictures/beliz.../011_tapir.jpg And yes they are becoming extinct... __________________ This is a rat. \|This is a hamster.\| This is a chipmunk.\| This is a Sheep Rider.

01-23-2004, 01:47 PM	#5
headsplice Relaxed Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Minneapolis Posts: 676	mmmmm....General Tso's Tapir.....tapirlicious.... __________________ Don't Panic

01-23-2004, 11:03 PM	#6
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	A 4 week old Brazilian girl running around Dublin? No wonder they're becoming extinct. Children shouldn't be running wild at that age. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

01-24-2004, 07:23 AM	#9
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Better the pot poll than Pol Pot. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

01-24-2004, 10:56 AM	#10
Beletseri Yeah sez you Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 206	That is just the cutest damn thing. Is it running or standing up to look at something?

01-24-2004, 11:12 AM	#11
Slartibartfast \|-0-\| <-0-> \|-0-\| Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: New Jersey Posts: 516	He is adorable! He is in motion- his center of gravity would make it impossible to be in that position motionless.

01-24-2004, 03:37 PM	#13
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	The girls loved it, nice catch UT! __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

01-26-2004, 11:14 AM	#14
warch lurkin old school Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Minnesota Posts: 2,796	Years ago, as an impressionable girl, I saw a big, randy, male tapir getting ready to get it on. I've always remembered the Tapir. It was an education at the zoo.

01-26-2004, 01:47 PM	#15
Uryoces 2nd Covenant, yo Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Pugetropolis Posts: 583	Really primitive looking guys. They were in the prologue in 2001: A Space Oddysey along with the mimes. __________________ The party's over ... the drink ... and the luck ... ran out.

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