Dream-eating tapir vs. anteater! If it weren’t for playing games that make my brain hurt, how could I have been confused when I saw all the people with long noses and the word “food” on them! So it’s the little quail who doesn’t carry the blame for online games!

But to be honest, when I was searching for anteaters and tapirs, I realized that many people confuse the two.

Because most of the habitats of anteaters and tapirs are the same parts of South America and Central America, only some Malayan tapirs live in Southeast Asia; and in Japanese legend, the dream-eating tapir The long nose in the portrait does indeed look like an anteater.

Then I will use the knowledge I just learned to share with you the differences between anteaters and tapirs!

Because there are actually several types of tapirs, let’s take the Malayan tapir, which is relatively close to us, as an example!

First of all, the most striking description of the Malayan tapir in the official image description is one sentence: like a pig but bigger than a pig. So you can recognize them from this, right? This feature is too obvious! (Who do you think the pigs are provoking?)

And their patterns are easy to recognize, but it feels like a pair of white trousers with creaking holes. The black and white are as clear as giant pandas. Many ancient books also describe tapirs in this way: black and white, capable of licking copper, iron and bamboo joints. It is this comment that makes current researchers think that ancient people probably thought of Malayan tapirs. Confused with the giant panda...

Later, the legendary image of tapirs spread to Japan, and gradually there was a saying that they could eat bad luck and nightmares, so there was a saying Beginning with the image of the Dream-Eating Tapir in the game Onmyoji. And because their noses are also thin and long, some people confuse them with anteaters.

So what do Malayan tapirs actually eat? To be honest, they are truly vegetarians, and their favorite plants are twigs, leaves, fruits, grasses and aquatic plants. They eat a wide range of plants and can eat nearly a hundred species of plants. So even though I am a vegetarian, my body is still so strong. Thinking about my weight loss meals, I suddenly feel that I have no hope of losing weight.

Let’s talk about anteaters. There are many kinds of anteaters. The picture we introduced yesterday is of the small anteater at Izu Cactus Zoo. The giant anteater is about 1.8 meters long, while the small anteater is only about 1.2 meters long. Of course, there are even smaller bonobo anteaters. The most adorable ones here are these little anteaters. Although their patterns vary according to the distribution of different habitats, the most famous and obvious ones are the "bibs" that are different from the Malayan tapir's large white underpants.

Most of the populations of small anteaters and anteaters are distributed in Central America and Central and South America, which are thousands of miles away from us. Everyone probably knows what they like to eat, including ants, termites, bees, etc.

The giant anteater has the same diet as them, but it is larger so it eats more. Now, due to the loss of their habitat and hunting, the giant anteater has become a vulnerable species, which is also very sad.

Now, this is a little bit of popular science from the editor. Without further ado, I’m going to complain to my boss about how poor he was and why he deducted my salary yesterday.