BRAZILIAN TAPIR with five legs at Melbourne zoo - Australia

The South American tapir (Tapirus terrestris), Brazilian tapir (from the Tupi tapi’ira), lowland tapir or (in Portuguese) anta, is one of four species in the tapir family, along with the mountain, the Malayan, and the Baird’s tapirs. It is the second-largest land mammal in South America, after the Baird’s tapir. The South American tapir can be found near water in the Amazon Rainforest and River Basin in South America, east of the Andes. Its range stretches from Venezuela, Colombia, and the Guianas in the