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Old 04-26-2002, 08:41 AM   #1
Undertoad
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4/26/2002: Saved tapir



Happy Friday. These beasts are called "tapirs". The momma there is named "Conchita" and the baby is "Carmina".

This was the first birth of a Tapir at the Hannover (Germany) zoo. But when Carmina came out, she wasn't breathing. The zookeeper stepped in and performed mouth-to-trunk resuscitation and saved the baby.

The Tapir pregnancy, it turns out, is 18 months long! Guh!



The little one is doing fine.
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