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	Animal Info - Mountain Tapir
		In contrast to other tapir species, which are predominantly nocturnal, the mountain tapir apparently is active during both daytime and nighttime.
		* The mountain tapir is the smallest tapir**.
		The mountain tapir inhabits montane forests at altitudes of 1400 - 4700 m (4600 - 15,400').
	www.animalinfo.org /species/artiperi/tapipinc.htm (958 words)

	Tapirs
		The Mountain Tapir is referred to as Sacha Huagra by Quechua speakers, danta cordillerana (cordilleran tapir) and danta lanuda (woolly tapir) by Spanish-speakers in Colombia, danta negra (fl tapir) by Spanish-speaking Ecuadorians, and tapir de altura (tapir of the heights) or gran bestia (large beast) by Spanish-speaking Peruvians.
		Mountain Tapirs may have greyish-fl or brown coats, often depending on where they live, and often the hair around their cheeks is lighter.
		The Mountain Tapir is primarily active from sundown to sunup when it forages for tender plants to eat, and it sleeps for much of the day.
	www.latinartmall.com /Tapirs.htm (1018 words)

	Mountain tapir - Tapirus pinchaque: More Information - ARKive
		The mountain tapir is a 'living fossil' (2); the smallest (3) of four surviving species of tapir that represent the remnants of a lineage that evolved around 55 million years ago, after the demise of the dinosaurs (2).
		Mountain tapirs communicate by producing shrill bird-like whistles (5), and males mark the boundaries of their territory by urinating (3).
		The major threats to the mountain tapir are destruction (4) and fragmentation (6) of the páramo and cloud forest habitats, coupled with illegal hunting for food (6), and the use of body parts in folk medicine (3).
	www.arkive.org /species/GES/mammals/Tapirus_pinchaque/more_info.html (662 words)

	tapir - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The tapir is somewhat piglike in appearance; however, it is not related to the pig, but to the horse and the rhinoceros, with which it forms the order of odd-toed hoofed mammals.
		Tapirs live in dense forest, browsing by night on leaves and twigs.
		Tapirs were widely distributed in tropical regions until the Pleistocene epoch, when most species became extinct.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-tapir.html (417 words)

	The Tapir (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The tapir is probably one of the least known and most peculiar animals, not only in the zoo but in the whole world.
		Currently there are only four tapir species in the world: three species, the lowland tapir, Baird's tapir and the mountain tapir, live in South-America, and another species, the Asian tapir, lives in South-East Asia.
		Another enemy of tapirs is obviously man. Hunters use the paths that the tapirs clear in their territories to follow them and hunt them for their meat and hide.
	www.jerusalemzoo.org.il /english/upload/month/Tapir.html (449 words)

	Digimorph - Tapirus terrestris (lowland tapir)
		The lowland tapir is possibly sympatric, or historically sympatric, with populations of the endangered mountain tapir (T.
		Tapirs are browsers, and their cheek teeth are adapted to form a series of shearing transverse blades (lophs) that are well suited for chewing fruit, leaves, and twigs.
		Tapirs generally live in forested areas, and their stocky build, with relatively short limbs and stout torso, is well suited for barreling through the underbrush.
	digimorph.org /specimens/Tapirus_terrestris (1108 words)

	Tapir T-Shirts
		A tapir is a large, browsing animal, roughly the shape of an over-sized pig but with a short, prehensile trunk.
		The tapir family is old by mammal standards: the earliest fossil tapir dates to the early Oligocene, and Eocene rocks from as long as 55 million years ago contain a wide range of tapir-like animals.
		The smaller Mountain Tapir of the Andes is generally diurnal, but all four species react to hunting pressure by retreating deeper into inaccessible regions and becoming more nocturnal and more secretive.
	www.junglewalk.com /shop/tapir-t-shirts.htm (276 words)

	General Tapir Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Tapirs are the largest mammal in the new-world tropics, standing 1 meter high (3 1/4 ft.) at the shoulder, 2.5 meters (6 1/2 ft.) from nose to tail and weighing up to 350 kilos (720 lbs).
		Tapirs are members of the odd-toed ungulate family (Perissodactyla) along with the horse and rhinoceros.
		Tapirs are completely herbivorous, consuming large amounts of leaves, stems and fruits.
	members.aol.com /danta003/generalinfo.html (201 words)

	Conservationists Risk Their Lives for Peru's Highland Headwaters
		Wild mountain tapirs still inhabit these headwaters cloud forests and treeless paramos, but they are already being ejected from their habitat by the first wave of miners.
		In Peru, mountain tapirs are desired for their feet, which are used in traditional medicine to treat epilepsy and other diseases.
		The mountain tapir is a vital seed disperser for a large percentage of Peru's native plants, says Downer, who authored the IUCN Species Survival Commission’s mountain tapir action plan in 1997.
	www.ens-newswire.com /ens/feb2005/2005-02-23-02.asp (1957 words)

	IUCN/SSC Tapir Specialist Group - Action Plan, 1997
		The chief threats to the mountain tapir are destruction of cloud forest and páramo habitat coupled with overhunting.
		Spanish names for the mountain tapir vary from danta lanuda (woolly tapir) and danta cordillerana (cordilleran tapir) in Colombia, to danta negra (fl tapir) in Ecuador, to tapir de altura (tapir of the heights), gran bestia (large beast), and bestia negra (fl beast) in Peru.
		Among the four extant tapirs, the mountain tapir is the smallest (Walker 1964, Frädrich and Thenius 1968).
	www.tapirback.com /tapirgal/iucn-ssc/tsg/action97/ap97-14.htm (1086 words)

	Mountain tapir
		Normally shy, mountain tapirs generally flee, either to water or into dense vegetation, when confronted with danger.
		Mountainous terrain at elevations 2,000-4,500 m / 6,400-14,400 ft. in the equatorial Andes (Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru).
		The mountain tapir is considered to be an endangered species by the IUCN (1996).
	www.ultimateungulate.com /Perissodactyla/Tapirus_pinchaque.html (434 words)

	Lookout Inn, Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica
		Tapirus terrestris, the Brazilian tapir, inhabits the lowland rainforest from Venezuela to northern Argentina, and T. pinchaque, the mountain tapir, is confined to the dwarf forests and paramo of the Columbian and Ecuadorian Andes.
		Tapirs are odd-looking beasts, to say the least: robustly built and rather rhinoceros-like, but without the horns, and with a flexible, trunk-like nose and upper lip.
		Tapirs are browsers of forest habitats, feeding mainly on leaves, though fruit and grasses comprise a significant portion of their diet.
	www.lookout-inn.com /articles/tapir.php (893 words)

	SARAGURO: THE CLOUD FOREST
		Among the large mammals present are the puma, the endangered spectacled bear and the likewise endangered mountain tapir.
		Tapirs are rarely said to be dangerous to humans or domestic animals.
		Finally, we might note, the difficulty of off-trail travel in the cloud forest is probably a major factor in keeping the mountain tapir and the spectacled bear among the least known animals of their size in the world.
	www.saraguro.org /cloudforest.htm (911 words)

	BBC - Science & Nature - Animals - Children's Zone - Amazing Animals - Tapir
		Tapirs are the closest living relatives to horses and rhinoceroses, and they look pretty much like they did three million years ago when they lived in Europe.
		Tapirs are stocky and short legged with four toes on their front feet, and three toes on their hind feet.
		All tapirs are endangered as they have been overhunted, and their habitat has been destroyed.
	www.bbc.co.uk /nature/reallywild/amazing/tapir.shtml (261 words)

	Tapir Tapirus terrestris
		Tapirs are huge, dark brown land mammals, with young that are stripy.
		Tapirs are very important to the indigenous people and feature in their myths, legends and religions.
		Tapirs live among the forest of the World Land Trust's reserves in Ecuador and Belize.
	www.worldlandtrust.org /animals/tapir.htm (261 words)

	Poaching; Fun, Money, Sport
		The lifespan of a mountain tapir in the wild has not been documented, partly because poaching is so common that collared tapirs as well as uncollared animals are usually killed before they have a chance to live out their full span.
		This is all too common when it comes to the endangered mountain tapirs, whose numbers have probably dwindled to less than 2,000, making them one of the Earth's most endangered species.
		Mountain gorillas are one of the most endangered animals in the world.
	www.angelfire.com /mn/wolfluver/Poaching/Poaching.html (1143 words)

	Ladywildlife's Brazillian Tapir Page
		This shy forest inhabitant is a relative of the horse and the rhinoceros.
		Tapir and Man: Natives of the Brazilian jungle have long hunted the tapir as a source of meat and for its hide.
		Mountain tapir, from Colombia and Ecuador to Peru.
	ladywildlife.com /animal/braziliantapir.html (853 words)

	Rainforest Live: Tapirs
		Tapirs are found in the rainforests of South East Asia and South and Central America.
		There are four species of tapirs: the Brazilian tapir, the mountain tapir, the Bairds tapir and the Malayan tapir.
		Tapirs are mainly active at night, feeding on grasses, leaves, twigs, fruit and shoots.
	www.rainforestlive.org.uk /index.cfm?Articleid=508 (221 words)

	Tapir,Mammals,Tapir Picture,Mammal Pictures,Catalog,Encyclopedia
		Tapirs are 1.8 to 2.4 m (6 to 8 ft) long, stand about 1 m (40 in) at the shoulder, and may weigh more than 270 kg (600 lb).
		The Brazilian tapir, T. terrestris, ranges from Colombia and Venezuela to Brazil; Baird's tapir, T. bairdi, from southern Mexico to Ecuador; and the wooly Andean, or mountain tapir, T. roulini, from Venezuela to Peru.
		Tapirs move quickly in open or jungle habitat and live from sea level to almost 4,575 m (15,000 ft).
	www.4to40.com /earth/geography/htm/mammalsindex.asp?counter=151 (221 words)

	San Diego Zoo's Animal Bytes: Tapir
		The four species of tapirs are most closely related to horses and rhinos, since each toe (four toes on each front foot, three on each back foot) has its own separate hoof.
		For many years it was believed that tapirs lived solitary lives in the wild, except for mothers raising young or a male and female that come together during breeding season.
		Tapirs like to spend a lot of time in the water, eating aquatic plants, cooling off, or washing away skin parasites.
	www.sandiegozoo.org /animalbytes/t-tapir.html (1126 words)

	S a f a r i p a r k . c o . u k
		Tapirs are short-legged, stocky, hoofed mammals with a short fleshy trunk.
		The Mountain Tapir is reddish brown in colour with a white chin and white fringes on the ears, and they are found in the mountain forests.
		Tapirs are mainly active at night, and being both browsers and grazers they feed on a variety of vegetation including grasses, leaves, shrubs, fruits, aquatic plants.
	www.safaripark.co.uk /animalinfo/animals.asp?id=27 (179 words)

	The Environmental Literacy Council - Tapir
		Known as the "gardener of the rainforest," tapirs are found in the rainforests and grasslands of Central and South America and Southeast Asia.
		There are four species of tapirs: the Baird tapir, Mountain tapir and Lowland tapir that are found in Central and South America and the Asian or Malayan tapir found in Southeast Asia.
		Tapirs typically weigh between 350 and 800 pounds, grow to be 6 feet long, and live about 25-30 years.
	www.enviroliteracy.org /subcategory.php/276.html (529 words)

	Peak to Peak - Mountain Partnership Newsletter - June 2004
		Endangered animals such as the eastern mountain gorilla in Uganda, the mountain bongo in Kenya and mountain tapir in Latin America, all depend upon bamboo forests for food and shelter.
		The conservation and sustainable development of mountain ecosystems, and in particular the protection of biodiversity and cultural heritage will be high on the agenda at the conference, ‘Integrated Management of Mountain Ecosystems: Water and Mountains’.
		Mountains and their environments are the focus of the 35th ‘Festival International du Film Alpin et de l’Environnement des Diablerets’, which runs from 18 to 25 September 2004 in Les Diablerets, Switzerland.
	www.mountainpartnership.org /newsletter01.html (1442 words)

	Pictures of the Brazilian tapir or South American tapir\|Tapirus terrestris facts
		Brazilian Tapir Skull - The Brazilian Tapier, Tapirus terrestris is generally solitary, and is found near rivers in mesic, transitional, and humid forest.
		Brazilian Tapir (Tapirus terrestris) The Brazilian tapir is related to the horse and the rhinoceros.
		The South American Tapir is a favourite food of the jaguar, and the flesh is considered palatable by hunters who have eaten it.
	www.thewebsiteofeverything.com /animals/mammals/Perissodactyla/Tapiridae/Tapirus/Tapirus-terrestris.html (758 words)

	A Zoo Man's Notebook: The tapirs
		The letter communicating this information gave assurance that this was indeed a mountain tapir, but at that time so little was known about the animal and descriptions of its external characteristics were so confusing that we felt a mistake might have been made in all innocence.
		The mountain tapir is certainly the rarest but by no means the most spectacular of the tapirs; that distinction belongs to the Malay or saddle-back tapir that ranges from Sumatra northward through the Malay peninsula to the borders of Burma and Thailand.
		Like other tapirs it is flish or flish- brown in general, but has a blanket of white or grayish white extending over the back from shoulders to hips, rather as if it has fallen over backwards into a tub of whitewash.
	www.tapir.org /zooman/the_tapirs.html (974 words)

	Welcome to the L.A. Zoo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Tapirs are among the most primitive of large mammals in the world, having roamed the earth for nearly 30 million years.
		Manuel is a mountain tapir born at the Zoo in spring 2002, and named after former Los Angeles Zoo Director Manuel Mollinedo.
		Our latest baby mountain tapir is striped, as are all baby tapirs, in order to provide a camouflage that imitates the variegated sunlight patterns of the South American forests from which mountain tapirs hail.
	www.lazoo.org /template4.html (284 words)

	Mountain Tapir Conservation Program at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo
		Cheyenne Mountain Zoo is committed to the funding of and participation in further research and conservation measures to help the mountain tapir’s survival.
		Cheyenne Mountain Zoo is one of only three zoos in the world caring for extremely endangered mountain tapirs.
		In an effort to keep tapirs safe in the wild, we are working closely with mountain tapir researcher, Dr. Diego Lizcano, in Colombia by sending him medical supplies for capturing and GPS radio collaring tapirs.
	www.cmzoo.org /mountaintapir.html (508 words)

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