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Woolly Tapir

Educational resources on Woolly Tapir

Woolly Tapir or Tapirus pinchaque is listed on the IUCN Red list (1996) as Endangered due to A2cd+3cd; C1; E . IUCN Profile of the Woolly Tapir

Academic web links for the Woolly Tapir.


MSL, Order Perissodactyla
Tapirus pinchaque - Woolly tapir - N Andes Mountains, South America 466 Young in striped and spotted coat, Los Angeles Zoo, CA, USA, 1977. A H Shoemaker
www.emporia.edu/biosci/msl/periss.htm

Horses, Tapirs & Rhinos
Mountain/Woolly Tapir Tapir calf Family Rhinocerotidae Rhinocerotidae w Range: Africa, SE Asia w Physical characteristics: • Large thick body
itech.pjc.edu/jkaplan/zootech/Course%20Materials/mamlec17.htm

Peter Deunov
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
sthweb.bu.edu/index.php?option=com_awiki&view=mediawiki&article=Mountain_Tapir&Itemid=249

bioinventory.ice.ucdavis.edu
Mountain (Roulin's, Woolly) Tapir (Roulin, 1829) Penry & Talbot, 1975 . Notes on the Birds of the Higher Altitudes of Mulanje Mountain, Malawi.
bioinventory.ice.ucdavis.edu/rdf/Cinturon_Andino_Cluster_Biosphere_Reserve.rdf







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