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ANIMAL INFORMATION: Please note, this part of mongabay has been updated |
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Woolly TapirEducational resources on Woolly TapirWoolly 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 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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