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The flehmen response (/ ˈ f l eɪ m ən /; from German flehmen, to bare the upper teeth, and Upper Saxon German flemmen, to look spiteful), also called the flehmen position, flehmen reaction, flehmen grimace, flehming, or flehmening, is a behavior in which an animal curls back its upper lip exposing its front teeth, inhales with the nostrils usually closed, and then often holds this position ...
Tapir showing the flehmen response The proboscis of the tapir is a highly flexible organ, able to move in all directions, allowing the animals to grab foliage that would otherwise be out of reach. Tapirs often exhibit the flehmen response , a posture in which they raise their snouts and show their teeth to detect scents.
The round, dark ears have distinctive white edges. Newborn tapirs have a dark brown coat, with small white spots and stripes along the body. The South American tapir can attain a body length of 1.8 to 2.5 m (5 ft 11 in to 8 ft 2 in) with a 5 to 10 cm (2.0 to 3.9 in) short stubby tail and an average weight around 225 kg (496 lb).
It has two small oval shaped eyes flush with the side of the head. Its ears are large, oval-shaped and not very mobile. Baird's tapirs average 2 m (6 ft 7 in) in length, but can range between 1.8 and 2.5 m (5 ft 11 in and 8 ft 2 in), not counting a stubby, vestigial tail of 5–13 cm (2.0–5.1 in), and 73–120 cm (29–47 in) in height.
One year later, the Ōtsuchi area that Sasaki and the phone called home was devastated after a 9.1 magnitude earthquake, followed by a tsunami. Sasaki was able to salvage the phone and later ...
Ewes enter into estrus cycles about every 17 days, which last for approximately 30 hours. [1] They indicate sexual readiness through physical displays towards rams and emitting a scent. The Flehmen response is exhibited by rams when they smell the urine of a ewe in estrus.
Emilia Patrícia Medici is a Brazilian conservation biologist who focuses on tapirs.She is the founder of the Lowland Tapir Conservation Initiative. [1] She has published peer-reviewed research on animal movements in the Anthropocene with conservation colleagues, and found that animals move less in human-influenced habitats. [2]
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