"Tapir" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... mound and pipes have been referred in turn to the peccary, the tapir, and the armadillo, it is safe to exclude these animals from consideration. It is indeed perhaps more likely that the ancient inhabitants of the Upper Mississippi Valley were autoptically acquainted with the mastodon than with either of the above-named animals, ...
— Animal Carvings from Mounds of the Mississippi Valley • Henry W. Henshaw
... frozen to death in crowds on the great heights. Instead of gold, nothing was found but wearisome savannahs and swamps, and dismal forests soaked with two months' rain. Instead of useful domestic animals, no creature was seen but the thick-skinned tapir, which, with a long beak-like nose, crops plants and leaves and frequents swampy tracts in the heart of the primeval forest. The few ...
— From Pole to Pole - A Book for Young People • Sven Anders Hedin
... made up his mind, but if he gets his way every tadpole and tapir will take it as a ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, June 30th, 1920 • Various
... sharks lived in the sea. Large turtles and crocodiles and enormous "sea-serpents" lingered in this last spell of warmth that Central Europe would experience. A primitive whale appeared in the seas, and strange large tapir-like mammals—remote ancestors of our horses and more familiar beasts—wandered heavily on the land. Gigantic primitive birds, sometimes ten feet high, waded by the shore. Deposits of the period at Bournemouth and in the Isle of Wight tell the same story of a land that ...
— The Story of Evolution • Joseph McCabe
... possible BY MY THEORY, that one of two living forms might have descended from the other; for instance, a horse from a tapir; but in this case DIRECT intermediate links will have existed between them" ...
— Luck or Cunning? • Samuel Butler
... parts of the Gulf of Mexico. Representations of this shell are shown in Pl. 1, figs. 10-12. In figs. 10, 11, the lip and spire are apparent but in fig. 12 the lip only is seen as a white fissure against the general dark background. An earthenware vessel representing a tapir (Pl. 28, fig. 1) shows a string of Oliva shells about the animal's neck and similar strings very often decorate the belts worn by the personages represented on the stelae ...
— Animal Figures in the Maya Codices • Alfred M. Tozzer and Glover M. Allen
... may drink their fill; the trees are garlanded with epiphytes and convolvuli, and anchored to the earth by a thousand vines. High among their branches, the red and yellow mocking-birds still build their hanging nests, uncouth storks and tree-porcupines cling above, and the spotted deer and the tapir drink from the sluggish stream below. The night is still made noisy with a thousand cries of bird and beast; and the stillness of the sultry noon is broken by the slow tolling of the campanero, or bell-bird, far in the deep, dark woods, like the chime of some lost convent. And as ...
— Black Rebellion - Five Slave Revolts • Thomas Wentworth Higginson |
