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Tapirs are cute. Tapir babies are even cuter. This subreddit provides a healthy daily dose of tapir!


Tapirs are cute. Tapir babies are even cuter. This subreddit provides a healthy daily dose of tapir!

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Tapirs are endangered animals!


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It's Tapir Tuesday!

5 Comments
2023/02/21
20:19 UTC

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Central American Tapir, Valentina, A Few Days Prior to Her Rescue

10 Comments
2023/02/19
17:11 UTC

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Happy Tapir Tuesday Valentine's!

I am not sure whose photo this is -- photo search led to chie-na-shika's Tumblr. I matched up the rocks in the background with another photo showing similar Malayan tapirs, and Rachelle on Tumblr independently noted that this was taken at the Henry Doorly Zoo in Omaha (before 2017 but not sure when). She says the tapirs are named Patrick (on the left, more prominent white ear tips) and Notches.
https://chie-na-shika.tumblr.com/post/38222744281/tapirus-indicus

https://preview.redd.it/443cf9fpx9ia1.png?width=291&format=png&auto=webp&v=enabled&s=6367e1001bbbf30365b61404f6d3e504659bf4ea

4 Comments
2023/02/15
03:44 UTC

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Happy Tapir Tuesday from this tapir couple!

2 Comments
2023/02/14
12:07 UTC

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"Valentina", a young female Baird's tapir, rescued in Belize

This was posted by the Belize Zoo & Tropical Education Center. The tapir is very thin (can see her ribs in another photo they showed). Right now she's safe at their facility and is receiving medical treatment.

"We end our Sunday by sharing an amazing rescue story. The Belize Defence Force had called for aid when an adult female tapir started showing up at Da Silva Camp in the Mountain Pine Ridge. This poor lady was severely underweight, and eagerly accepted food from the concerned soldiers.

The Belize Wildlife & Referral Clinic answered their call for help, and collaborated with our General Curator, Humberto Wohlers, to safely relocate the tapir to the Zoo. "Valentina" has a long road to recovery, but is now in good hands, and will receive the vital care she needs.

A tapir-tastic thank you goes out to Corporal Ba and his BDF colleagues, as well as BWRC and Belize Zoo staff who made Valentina's journey calm and comfortable."

The zoo added, "She was suffering from skin infections, parasites and a lung infection and her eye sight is very compromised as well. While we don't know what happened first, she struggled for a long time, declining. Our first suspicion was that she may have been orphaned, as she is not fully grown. We were able to give meds for a couple days before capture and she has started to show slight improvement. For now we hope she recovers."

Valentina

2 Comments
2023/02/14
04:49 UTC

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Teaching a biogeography course this spring -- I made a collection of bloopers to entertain the class, with a lot of tapir examples

1 Comment
2023/02/11
20:29 UTC

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Happy Tapir Tuesday everyone!

2 Comments
2023/01/31
10:29 UTC

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Malayan Tapir, watercolor by me, & bonus animal facts!

6 Comments
2023/01/28
16:59 UTC

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Have a joyful Tapir Tuesday, everyone!

4 Comments
2023/01/24
14:49 UTC

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Happy tapir Tuesday!! :)

1 Comment
2023/01/17
12:46 UTC

158

It's Tapir Tuesday!

2 Comments
2023/01/17
08:53 UTC

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It's Tapir Tuesday! Know your tapir facts

5 Comments
2023/01/10
11:54 UTC

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Has anyone here seen a tapir in the wild?

If so, did you hear them make any sounds?

5 Comments
2023/01/10
06:28 UTC

4

Any Recent Tapir Specialist Group Newsletters?

That latest one I could find online publicly dates back to July 2015. Are there any more recent? Know of any links to chronological research papers for any of the tapir species?? Thanks for reading, Happy New Year

1 Comment
2023/01/04
00:36 UTC

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It's Tapir Tuesday!

3 Comments
2023/01/03
10:52 UTC

138

ceramic tapir youngling my mom made

7 Comments
2022/12/24
19:26 UTC

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Historical postcard -- St. Louis had Baird's tapirs in 1942. Baby seems to have been born there.

1 Comment
2022/12/12
19:36 UTC

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Undated photo of baby mountain tapir at the LA Zoo

This could be anytime in the past half-century -- I'm assuming the calf was born there. I checked Sasha's records and noticed birth records for a female (Aug 8 1997) and a male (Oct 10 2003), possibly another sometime in 2000? Parents were Emmitt and Midori. So this might be one of their offspring.

https://preview.redd.it/hh12rfwsfc4a1.png?width=621&format=png&auto=webp&v=enabled&s=cf7a291af070603e79faff8e4064896d7eafe71d

https://preview.redd.it/3kb5ifwsfc4a1.png?width=681&format=png&auto=webp&v=enabled&s=c29580389de97fa4010bb0e36a795e26de07edbc

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Az4KEhDKFQb8YsTJvlNMMBH2f8fpudZeBtWMhqHsRyk/edit#gid=3

3 Comments
2022/12/06
21:13 UTC

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A wee baby tappy!

3 Comments
2022/11/26
14:23 UTC

105

My Bairds Tapir Illustration

5 Comments
2022/11/22
21:06 UTC

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Taffy and the Tapir Party - Inviting the community to review our book via Booksirens

Hi everyone, some of you have probably already seen it or even bought a copy, thank you very much!!☺️ We had some difficulties with amazon which are finally resolved and would love to get some reviews now if you like the story and have some time on your hand.

My partner and I recently self-published a picture book called Taffy and the Tapir Party. It was written by my parner and illustrated by myself. Things have been going well but we don't have many reviews.

We have made it available on Book Sirens where you can download the book for free, in exchange we would welcome reviews on GoodReads and/or Amazon UK but there is no obligation! If you use the link below, it is free for us too.

https://booksirens.com/book/AEDFRJO/VKX9M9T

Follow Taffy on an adventure as he makes his way to the Elephant Ferry for the annual tapir party. Meet his friends Penelope Pelican, Leonard Lemur and Cara Capybara who all need Taffy’s help.

A story of adventure, friendship and working together. Full of beautiful illustrations by Julia which are packed with life, fun and lots of little creatures to find.

Watch our trailer here: https://youtu.be/oBeijYPq9Tg

Thank you! https://strangefishbooks.uk/shop/taffy-the-tapir/

4 Comments
2022/11/20
18:13 UTC

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Tapirs and other megafauna in South American rock art

This site was in the news a couple of years ago, but a paper was published earlier this year that shows some of the images in more detail. I thought people would be interested that one part of the artwork has been nicknamed the Panel of the Tapirs (Las Dantas panel).
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rstb.2020.0496

2 Comments
2022/11/17
21:14 UTC

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I know it's wrong to want to give wildlife a hug, but this mountain tapir looks so fuzzy ...

5 Comments
2022/11/15
06:22 UTC

113

I caught this at Woodland Park zoo!🤣

4 Comments
2022/11/11
19:42 UTC

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