Mercury intern Sahar is wearing a shirt today that, amongst other things, includes a picture of a tapir.
Tapir drawing by Robert A. Wilson; taken from tapirback.com
“What the heck is that?” we cried. “Is it an anteater? Is it a dinosaur?”
“No,” she replied. “It’s a tapir. It’s a sort of horse/elephant/pig thing.”
“Wow!” we exclaimed. So, of course our next question was, “Can you milk them?”
Sahar did not know the answer. I felt pretty certain that you could milk a tapir if you wanted to, and perhaps the milk would come out of its funny snout.
So I immediately embarked on some internet research to get to the bottom of this question. Results? Inconclusive. But I did find this, which may or may not be worth 55 seconds of your time:
So, in summation: Tapirs are cow/horse/anteater thingies that may or may not provide milk, that may or may not grant wishes when you rub their magical snouts, and that definitely love massages.
i went to a wildlife preserve in argentina where there were supposed to be tapirs, but i did not see any.
Tapirs are so kick ass, but I am happy that I don’t have to massage them to a Hawaiian soundtrack.
OMG! It’s a freaking mammal, Any mammal can be milked if you REALLY wanted to. The rael question is: Does it’s milk taste good.
Thank you mercury. Tapirs have long been one of my favorite animals, second only to manatees (the wonderful sea-cow with nipples under it’s flippers).
I can only imagine that tapir milk would make some mighty fine tapir cheddar!
Now if you’ll excuse me, I have to get myself down to the L.A. Zoo for a massage…
Why was her hand not visible at the beginning of the video? What was she doing? Perverted minds want to know…