mountain tapir

mammal
Also known as: Tapirus pinchaque, Tapirus roulini

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major reference

  • tapir
    In perissodactyl: Tapirs

    The mountain tapir (Tapirus pinchaque), the smallest and most primitive, inhabits the temperate-zone forests and bordering grasslands of the Andes in Colombia and Ecuador and in northern Peru, up to altitudes of nearly 4,600 metres (about 15,000 feet). Agricultural and pastoral expansion resulted in some decline…

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characteristics

  • Malayan tapir
    In tapir

    …is fairly dense in the mountain tapir (Tapirus pinchaque, formerly T. roulini). There is a short, bristly mane in the Central American, or Baird’s, tapir (T. bairdii), the little black, or Kobomani, tapir (T. kabomani), and the South American lowland tapir (T. terrestris). This geographic distribution, with four species in…

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