Oh wow.
I'm already quite envious that she has great senior(s) & proper training, and now this?
Can't believe her workplace is more decent than mine 😭😭 lol (we aren't really allowed to "get sick". whenever flu season coming, it's a party 🤣🤣🤣)
i think its because they named tapirs after baku because they fit the "medium-sized quadrupedal with a big snout/trunk" part. then in more modern times, artists started drawing baku looking a lot like malayan tapirs. tapirs do look weird enough, and they're easier to draw than a chimera thing.