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A juvenile Malayan tapir. The gestation period of the Malayan tapir is about 390–395 days, after which a single calf is born that weighs around 6.8 kg (15 lb). Malayan tapirs are the largest of the four tapir species at birth and tend to grow more quickly than their relatives. [22]
A rare Malayan tapir calf was born at Point Defiance Zoo over the weekend. This marks only the second time this has happened in the zoo's 120-year history.
An endangered and rare Malayan tapir calf was born this weekend at Washington’s Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium.. Only the second tapir birth there in more than a hundred years, the unnamed ...
Ubi, who had been pregnant with the calf for about 13 months, gave birth overnight March 26. ... “Malayan tapirs are endangered, and any addition is a significant conservation achievement ...
They are the South American tapir, the Malayan tapir, Baird's tapir, and the mountain tapir. In 2013, a group of researchers said they had identified a fifth species of tapir, the kabomani tapir . However, the existence of the kabomani tapir as a distinct species has been widely disputed, and recent genetic evidence further suggests that it ...
A rare Malayan tapir calf is born. The Sumatran orangutans are given Christmas presents and vets give Bali the reticulated python a health check. Sun bears Millie and Tony have a stale relationship and may have to be separated.
The Edinburgh Zoo is celebrating the arrival of an adorable endangered Malayan tapir calf.
Linnaeus classified this tapir as Hippopotamus terrestris and put both genera in the group of the Belluae ("beasts"). He combined the rhinos with the Glires, a group now consisting of the lagomorphs and rodents. Mathurin Jacques Brisson (1723–1806) first separated the tapirs and hippos in 1762 with the introduction of the concept le tapir. He ...