A goddess who rides this non-jaguar and non-lion animal forms a trinity with Guaicaipuro and Negro Felipe, and is served by both Jesus and Simon Bolivar.
In a chapter called "Myths in the Forms of Klein's Bottle," Claude Levi-Strauss recounts a Tumupasa myth in which this animal has three testicles and a giant penis because this animal copulated with its wife before she could eat the Moon. A goddess who rides this non-jaguar and non-lion animal forms a trinity with Guaicaipuro and Negro Felipe, and is served by both Jesus and Simon Bolivar. The Haptodon fossil is thought to be a predecessor to this animal, which is the mount for the Venezuelan goddess Maria Lionza. The kabomani species of it was supposedly first identified during an expedition by Teddy Roosevelt. Though there exists "Malayan" and "mountain" forms of this ungulate, the more common South American form of this animal is named after Spencer Baird. A Portuguese word for "thick" gives its name to, and describes the nose of, for 10 points, what mammal with a prehensile snout?
In a chapter called "Myths in the Forms of Klein's Bottle," Claude Levi-Strauss recounts a Tumupasa myth in which this animal has three testicles and a giant penis because this animal copulated with its wife before she could eat the Moon.
tapirs [or tapirus]