Might be the critical factor.

Not sure.

Perhaps you're Oink's special needs cousin. Have you amounted to anything yet?

Here you go. Obsess away once again. Fill yer boots !

Nice. Did you take that or is it from the web. I didn't know that they climbed trees (my obsession faded about forty years ago ).

They don't climb trees, they look like this.

Yes, that's more like it. Beautiful beasts. Glad Noah had room for them, back in the day.

I thought it must be a bit tricky to climb trees with hooves, but wasn't sure.

Yes, I think might be a tree climbing anteater.

I took it in Tortuguero National Park in north east Cost Rica. This was unusual because it was in daylight. They are normally mostly nocturnal

You could well be correct. I defer to your superior knowledge. Maybe I buggered up my notes, I'll have to check and correct the title. This is from my Costa Rica gallery.

Its cool anyway, especially as they're usually nocturnal.

Now what was this thread about again? Oh yes, I remember.

Carry on with tapirs. Much more interesting.

Using state-of-the art (as yet unreleased) "Photo to 3D model" software, I traced around that animal to define its three dimensions. Then I used the automatic processing to turn the outline automatically snap to the object in the photo.

I then edited and manipulated the model, rotating it, enhancing colours and lighting and enlarging it in the process.

Finally, using a software add-on which deterministically models and textures hidden surfaces into the rotated model, I was able to produce this photo-match of the animals face.

And here is that image, from which you can now clearly identify the genus and species of the originally photographed animal:

One the places I lived in DC was next to the zoo and the tapirs were the first animals on the right when you went in. They snuffled about a bit but were much less noisy and better behaved than some of the parrots and monkeys.

How about Belted Galloway cattle, not quite the same species as the tapir, but they are found on these isles, and after a few ales they do bear a resemblance.