Indischer Tapir, Amerikanischer Tapir

Title

Indischer Tapir, Amerikanischer Tapir

Description

Representation of a indian tapir and american tapir

ca. 1840

Artist

Brodtmann (1787-1862)

Karl Joseph-Ioseph Brodtmann was an accomplished Swiss artist and lithographer, as well as a printmaker, publisher and bookseller who worked in Zurich and Schaffhausen. Brodtmann's natural history lithographs include Heinrich Rudolf Schinz's works on reptiles and birds, published in the early 1830s. Brodtmann also produced natural history lithographs, as Naturhistorische Bilder Gallerie aus dem Thierreiche.

Historical Description

Although they remotely resemble pigs in appearance, tapirs have horses and rhinos as their closest relatives. Tapirs are animals characterized by a robust build and a short trunk, living mainly in dense tropical forests and feeding mainly on soft plant matter. Today they are found in South America (and mountain tapir), Central America (Baird's tapir) and Southeast Asia (tailed tapir).