"A Malayan tapir (Tapirus indicus) that escaped from the San Diego 
Zoo was recaptured a few days later when the Zoo “received a call from a woman shrieking into the phone that a ‘rhinoceros’ was loose in the sewer.”
The misidentification may be understandable, given many people have never seen a tapir (pronounced like ‘appear’, or less commonly, like ‘taper’ or even ‘tarp-ear’).
The Thai p’som-sett creation anecdote of the tapir’s creation might surprise some people since Thailand’s majority religion is Buddhism, which does not teach of a creator.
But p’som-sett is symptomatic of the traditional ‘default’ view, all
around the world, that everything around us was created. Studies of young children in various countries reveal they see nature as logically having been designed, not by people but by a Creator God—even children who have never received any such instruction.--Such findings dismay leading atheists, who have tried to argue that belief in God is propagated through religious ‘indoctrination’.
--Meanwhile they have aggressively sought to indoctrinate others, especially children, in secular humanism.
Central to their strategy is promoting the teaching of evolution, with its attendant implications—e.g. that some species are less ‘advanced’, including the tapir:
Tapirs are the most primitive large mammals in the world.
Evolutionists have nominated the rhinoceros and the horse as being 
the tapir’s closest relatives. The three occupy the order Perissodactyla, which includes all hoofed animals having an odd number of toes on their hind feet.
But the tapirs’ distinctive features, so starkly differing from rhinos and horses, cannot be so readily accommodated by ‘evolutionspeak’. E.g. the prehensile (gripping) tapir trunk, to be fully functional, needs to be appropriately anchored to a matching skull. Thus, the shape of tapir skulls, and the associated muscles and nerves, are truly unique in comparison to horses and rhinos.
A major challenge for evolutionists is how the Perissodactyla as a group are evolutionarily related to other orders of mammals. Indeed the problem of precisely how and where the perissodactyls (rhinos, horses, tapirs) are supposed to have evolved has been described as “one of the great conundrums of mammalian evolution”. From an evolutionary viewpoint, their fossils “appeared abruptly at the beginning of the Eocene [said to be 55 million years ago according to evolutionary thinking] across the Holarctic continents [North America, northern Eurasia, and North Africa], with little indication of their source.” Darwin, wrote of the tapir in his 1889 book Darwinism: “These curious animals form one of the puzzles of geographical distribution”.
In reality, tapirs have always been tapirs, reproducing “after their 
kind” (with ‘kind’ equating to the taxonomic family Tapiridae) since Day 6 of Creation Week only about 6,000 years ago, just as God intended them to do (Genesis 1:24–25).
---And the tapir-fossil-bearing rock strata purported to be millions of years old are instead a legacy of Noah’s Flood (Genesis 6–9) about 4,500 years ago."
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