Zoo Keeper Massage

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Here is video of a Zoo Keeper giving the tapir a fantastic massage
You can see the cute animal enjoying it...

What is Tapir by the way, what order, family and genus does it belong to???

Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Mammalia
Order:Perissodactyla
Family:Tapiridae
Genus:Tapirus

The undersides of the front (left, with four toes) and back (right, with three toes) feet of a Malayan tapir at rest


An adult Malayan Tapir at the San Diego Zoo

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Tapirs closest relative is the Horse
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The tapir family is old by mammalian standards. The earliest fossil tapir dates to the early Oligocene, and Eocene rocks from as early as 55 million years ago contain a wide range of tapir-like animals, and they have changed little since.[1] These ungulates could be found world-wide. Perissodactyls, including tapiroids, became the predominant large terrestrial browsers through the Oligocene, and many members of the group survived until the late Pleistocene. It is believed that Asian and American tapirs diverged around 20 to 30 million years ago, and that tapir varieties moved from North America to Central and South America around 3 million years ago.[13]

It is also believed by some scientists that the tapir may have evolved from the Hyracotherium (primitive horse)