tapir

Participants in the tapir feeding sessions will be given the opportunity to take a selfie with the park's family of tapirs.

Around half of the world's Malayan tapirs have been lost in the last 40 years, with fewer than 2,500 estimated to remain across Malaysia, Sumatra, Thailand and Myanmar.

CHESTER Zoo's new adorable baby Malayan tapir has made history.

The lilac-breasted roller and (below Brazilian tapirs

Christmas Eve last month saw two heartbreaking incidents where motorists killed a sun bear and a tapir.

HUGE new state-of-the-art habitats for sun bears, Malayan tapirs and Asian songbirds have been unveiled at Chester Zoo.

Although few data on the infection by the parasite in tapirs is available, the modified agglutinating test (MAT) has already been used to identify antibodies in captive and free-living individuals of this species (NAVEDA et al., 2011).

In 2014 a Telonics[R] telemetry collar (TGW-4570-3 GPS/Gen4 GPS-Iridium collar system) were attached to a young male (> 1 year old) and an adult female lowland tapirs (Tapirus terrestris), in order to monitor their movements.

Tapirs, however, have four toes on their front hooves and three on their back hooves.

Tapirs, which hail from South America, are the friendliest of mammals.

Two-year-old Baird's tapirs, the youngsters are unwitting protagonists in a public-private initiative to save the trunk-nosed herbivores from extinction.

Despite having few predators, tapirs are on the EDGE list - Evolutionary Distinct and Globally Endangered.

Like all young tapirs, the calf is sporting a coat of spots and stripes which she will lose as she grows older.