In Japanese folklore, tapirs can eat people's dreams. Who's eating YOUR dreams? Or, who's LIVING in YOUR dreams? Anyway...I show you The Malayan Tapir (Tapirus indicus), also called the Asian Tapir. WWF Maximum cards / maxicards / dorincards from Vietnam

"The Malayan Tapir (Tapirus indicus), also called the Asian Tapir, is the largest of the four species of tapir and the only one native to Asia.^[2] The scientific name refers to theEast Indies, the species' natural habitat. In the Malay language, the tapir is commonly referred to as "cipan", "tenuk" or "badak tampong"".

Why not camouflaged by stripes, like a tiger?

What's up with this giant panda style of black and white?

"The animal is easily identified by its markings, most notably the light-colored “patch” which extends from its shoulders to its rear. 

The rest of its hair is black, except for the tips of its ears which, as with other tapirs, are rimmed with white. 

This pattern is for camouflage: the disrupted coloration makes it more difficult to recognize it as a tapir, and other animals may mistake it for a large rock rather than a form of prey when it is lying down to sleep."

"The females are usually larger than the males. 

Like the other types of tapir, they have small stubby tails and long, flexible proboscises. 

They have four toes on each front foot and three toes on each back foot. 

The Malayan Tapir has rather poor eyesight but excellent hearing and sense of smell."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malayan_Tapir

Men! 

When women ask you a serious question, DON'T give them 

the flehmen response!

"The proboscis of the tapir is a highly flexible structure, 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, in order to detect scents. 

This response is frequently exhibited by bulls sniffing for signs of other males or females in oestrus in the area."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tapir

Women!

When you wear your favorite perfume (natural or not),

and you are near a TIGER, let's say,

what organ of the tiger you think you are addressing?

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No, guess again.

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It's the Jacobson's organ.

"The flehmen response (English pronunciation: /ˈfleɪmən/, German: [ˈflɛːmən]), also called the flehmen position, flehmen reaction, flehming, or flehmening (from German flehmen, meaning to curl the upper lip), is a particular type of curling of the upper lip in ungulates, felids, and many other mammals, which facilitates the transfer of pheromones and other scents into the vomeronasal organ, also called the Jacobson's organ."

" Therefore while the presence of a structure in adult human beings is debated, a review of the scientific literature by Tristram Wyatt concluded, "most in the field... are sceptical about the likelihood of a functional VNO in adult human beings on current evidence.""

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vomeronasal_organ

Tapir, under the pink/orange sky of Vietnam (see the above stamps again).

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