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Under good conditions, a healthy female tapir can reproduce every two years; a single young, called a calf, is born after a gestation of about 13 months. [36] The natural lifespan of a tapir is about 25 to 30 years, both in the wild and in zoos. [37] Apart from mothers and their young offspring, tapirs lead almost exclusively solitary lives.
The Karitiana people call it the little black tapir. [7] It is, purportedly, the smallest tapir species, even smaller than the mountain tapir (T. pinchaque), which had been considered the smallest. T. kabomani is allegedly also found in the Amazon rainforest, where it appears to be sympatric with the well-known South American tapir (T. terrestris).
The Malayan tapir is the largest of the four extant tapir species and grows to between 1.8 and 2.5 m (5 ft 11 in and 8 ft 2 in) in length, not counting a stubby tail of only 5 to 10 cm (2.0 to 3.9 in) in length, and stands 90 to 110 cm (2 ft 11 in to 3 ft 7 in) tall.
The Baird's tapir (Tapirus bairdii), also known as the Central American tapir, is a species of tapir native to Mexico, Central America, and northwestern South America. [4] It is the largest of the three species of tapir native to the Americas , as well as the largest native land mammal in both Central and South America .
The ecoregion home to 195 mammal species, including several large and endangered species – Asian elephant (Elephas maximus), gaur (Bos gaurus), tiger (Panthera tigris), Malayan tapir (Tapirus indicus), and clouded leopard (Neofelis nebulosa). [4]
Tapirus mesopotamicus is an extinct species of tapir that lived in South America during the ... rainforest, savanna or humid tropical or subtropical forests near ...
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In contrast, the largest surviving native North American mammal, the wood bison, can exceed 900 kg (2,000 lb), and the largest surviving Nearctic migrant to South America, Baird's tapir, can reach 400 kg (880 lb). Paleo-Indians and †Glyptodon Baird's tapir, Tapirus bairdii, the largest surviving Nearctic migrant to South America