Tapirs

Tapirs are very weird and strange animals, if you go onto http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/tapir/ the author talks about life, 

environment , and also about its ancestral ties to other animals. You can learn about the Tapir in further detail by clicking onto that website.

Tapirs have lived through out history with little change to the animal. These mammals have been around for almost 35 million years.Four different classes of Tapir walk the earth today: South American, Mountain, Baird's, and the Malayan tapir. It is said that the tapir had the appearance of a pig but with a trunk. These animals are actually related to horses and rhinos, not pigs. You can find this strange animal in South and Central America along with Asia. In addition, tapirs tend to spend much of their life in the water and often go in all the way to cool themselves off while keeping their trunk above the water; they use it as almost a snorkel to breathe. These animals eat mostly plants both in and out of the water. Tapirs are amazing swimmers which is why they can feed on plant life from the sea because they can dive down to retrieve the food. The thing that makes these animals bizarre but interesting is the fact that they have literally been around for millions of years.