Tuesday, July 30, 2013

Malayan tapir

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Perissodactyla
Family: Tapiridae
Genus: Tapirus
 Species: T. indicus

The malayan tapir as they are habit to Asia as they love to live in rainforests, it has black and white skin as they have short coat, small nose and ears and black butt. they have white pattern on their back to there belly they have also long nose as they can smell well from along distance also they have an excellent sense of hearing but an bad eye sighting also they are active at night.

Malayan tapirs grow to between 1.8 and 2.4 m (5 ft 10 in and 7 ft 10 in) in length as the that the females can be larger than males. Malayan tapir breed between April and may 1 young tapir is born,
the tapir main food: leaves, grasses and fruits.

Them main predators for them are humans hunting and another animals like leopards.
   

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