Moeritherium was a prehistoric animal featured in Walking with Beasts.
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| - thumb|400px El Moeritherium era un animal bastante extraño, muy parecido al hipopótamo, pero si nos fijamos en su hocico, este era una trompa, además la forma de sus dientes y sus patas nos demuestran que era un primo del elefante actual. Era un animal que vivía tanto en tierra como en el agua. Categoría:Mamíferos Categoría:Placentarios Categoría:Proboscideos Categoría:Fauna del Eoceno
- Moeritherium was a prehistoric animal featured in Walking with Beasts.
- The Moeritherium species were pig-like animals that lived about 37-35 million years ago, and resembled modern tapirs[1] or pygmy hippopotamuses (they are not believed to be related to either of those animals, however). They were smaller than modern elephants, standing only 70 centimetres (2.3 ft) high at the shoulder and were about 3 metres (9.8 ft) long.[citation needed] They are believed[by whom?] to have wallowed in swamps and rivers, filling the ecological niche now filled by the hippopotamus. The shape of their teeth suggests that they ate soft water vegetation.
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| - The Moeritherium species were pig-like animals that lived about 37-35 million years ago, and resembled modern tapirs[1] or pygmy hippopotamuses (they are not believed to be related to either of those animals, however). They were smaller than modern elephants, standing only 70 centimetres (2.3 ft) high at the shoulder and were about 3 metres (9.8 ft) long.[citation needed] They are believed[by whom?] to have wallowed in swamps and rivers, filling the ecological niche now filled by the hippopotamus. The shape of their teeth suggests that they ate soft water vegetation. The shape of the skull suggests that Moeritherium did not have an elephant-like trunk, but it may have had a broad flexible upper lip like a tapir's for grasping aquatic vegetation. The second incisor teeth formed small tusks, although these would have looked more like the teeth of a hippo than a modern elephant.
- thumb|400px El Moeritherium era un animal bastante extraño, muy parecido al hipopótamo, pero si nos fijamos en su hocico, este era una trompa, además la forma de sus dientes y sus patas nos demuestran que era un primo del elefante actual. Era un animal que vivía tanto en tierra como en el agua. Categoría:Mamíferos Categoría:Placentarios Categoría:Proboscideos Categoría:Fauna del Eoceno
- Moeritherium was a prehistoric animal featured in Walking with Beasts.
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