Tapir comes from tapi'ira in Old Tupi, once spoken along Brazil's coast. Three tapir species live in the Americas, but the fourth, the black-and-white Malayan tapir, lives in Southeast Asia. Their closest living relatives are horses and rhinos.
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📍 Northern India
Today most wild cheetahs live in Africa, but their name is Hindi: chītā, from a Sanskrit word meaning 'variegated' or 'speckled'. Cheetahs were once abundant in India, and English borrowed the word by 1704.
📍 Canary Islands, Spain
Canaries are named after the Canary Islands off north-west Africa, where the wild birds still live. The islands came first: their Latin name, Canariae Insulae, is usually read as 'islands of dogs', and Pliny linked it to big dogs found there.
📍 New Zealand
Mako is a Māori word from New Zealand for the shark or its tooth; Samoans say mago and Hawaiians manō. The shortfin mako is the fastest known shark and is famous for leaping high out of the water when hooked.
📍 Junín plateau (Lake Junín), Peru
Maca, a turnip-like root now sold worldwide as a powder, grows at 4,000 metres, where frost and wind defeat most crops. Until the late 1980s it was farmed only around Lake Junín in central Peru, where it is still roasted in earth pits.
📍 North coast of Peru (Huanchaco to Pimentel)
Fishermen on Peru's north coast have used caballitos de totora, 'little reed horses', for about 3,000 years. They sit astride the bundled reeds, paddle out through the surf to fish, then ride the waves back to the beach.
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📍 Buenos Aires, Argentina
The first feature-length cartoon wasn't Snow White (1937) but El Apóstol, made in Buenos Aires in 1917 by Quirino Cristiani from 58,000 frames of cut-out animation. Its only copy was lost in a 1926 studio fire.