n.large inoffensive chiefly nocturnal ungulate of tropical America and southeast Asia having a heavy body and fleshy snout

Tapirs as seed dispersers and predators
Asian Tapirs Are No Elephants When It Comes To Seed Dispersal
Do Tapirs Steal Food from Palm Seed Predators or Give Them a Lift?
The proboscis of tapirs (Mammalia: Perissodactyla): a case study in novel narial anatomy
Comparative cytogenetics of tapirs, genus tapirus (Perissodactyla, tapiridae).
Frugivory and seed dispersal by tapirs: an insight on their ecological role.
Notes on Pleistocene and Recent tapirs. Bulletin of the AMNH ; v. 86, article 2
LONG-DISTANCE SEED DISPERSAL BY TAPIRS INCREASES SEED SURVIVAL AND AGGREGATES TROPICAL TREES
Dental characters of the Quaternary tapirs in China, their significance in classification and phylogenetic assessment
Mammals of Northern Colombia, Preliminary Report No. 7: Tapirs (Genus Tapirus), with a Systematic Review of American Species