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“ANTA” – “TAPIRUS TERRESTRIS” - The TAPIR, the largest mammal in PANTANAL, it is nevertheless much smaller than their relatives in AFRICA and ASIA. Recent theories seek to explain this phenomenon in the last ICE AGE, when AMERICA had dried too much to allow the survival of large animals. The TAPIR can weigh 300 kg. It has three toes on the hind feet and an additional, much smaller in front. It has a flexible trunk, prehensile and hair that smells and feels damp. Lives near rainforests and rivers, often take water baths and mud to get rid of ticks, flies and other parasites. Herbivorous, eating leaves, fruits, buds, branches, aquatic plants, grass and folder to plantations in cane sugar, rice, corn, cocoa and melon. Nocturnal, hiding by day in the woods, coming out at night to graze. In solitary, are found together only during mating and feeding. The female usually has just one pup, and the couple separated shortly after mating. If ecotourism is your passion, the PANTANAL of Mato Grosso do Sul is your destiny...
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