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Sniff! A round, heavy animal built like a bulldozer pushes through thick jungle vines, its bendy trunk twisting toward a branch only it can reach. It's a tapir, and its closest living relatives are the horse and the rhinoceros. If your child has never heard of a tapir, they are about to meet the strangest animal on the planet. Tapirs look nothing like horses or rhinos, yet science says they are family. Baby tapirs are born covered in white spots and stripes, like a watermelon with legs. Some believe tapirs eat bad dreams. A tapir can run 30 miles per hour, dive into a river, and walk along the bottom to escape a jaguar. One species lives high in freezing Andes cloud forests in a thick woolly coat while another swims through the Amazon. Every page delivers something your child will want to run and share. ""The Nature Kid's Guide to Tapirs"" is written for curious kids ages 7-12 who want to know the real story behind one of the world's oldest and most overlooked animals. How did tapirs end up living on two continents separated by 10,000 miles of open ocean? Why do some seeds only sprout after passing through a tapir's belly? What makes tapirs so important to the jungle that scientists call them its gardeners? Your child will find out, and they will never walk through a zoo the same way again. Short sentences and surprising facts build reading confidence while keeping even older kids hooked from first page to last. Chapters cover all four tapir species, from the massive Malayan tapir of Southeast Asia to the mysterious woolly mountain tapir hiding above the clouds in South America. A book for every kid who has walked past the tapir exhibit at the zoo and had no idea what they were looking at. Tapirs have roamed this planet for 35 million years, surviving ice ages, shifting continents, and the rise and fall of other species. Only about 2,500 mountain tapirs remain in the wild today. That is the kind of wonder that sticks. Thousands of young readers have explored the Nature Kids Guide series. Your child is next!

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