In Denver, a baby Malay tapir grows up Bashny.Net

Denver Zoo (Denver Zoo) celebrated the birth of a baby Malay tapir, which was born on April 29. The parents of the baby, named Baku, were a female named Rinny and a male Benny. Baku was the couple’s second offspring and the second Malay tapir born at the Denver Zoo.



Photo: Denver Zoo

Fortunately, Rinnie’s second birth went well, as during the first birth (in 2012), the female and her newborn baby Dumadi had to provide medical care.

According to employees, little Baku and his mother will be in a separate room for some time. Closer to the summer, they will be transferred to an open aviary, where visitors can see them. Now they can be observed using a special webcam installed in their room.



Tapirus (Latin Tapirus) - animals belonging to the order of unpair-hoofed. The Malay tapir (Latin Tapirus indicus) is the only Asian tapir species native to Southeast Asia. Now these tapirs are found in Indochina and on the island of Sumatra. According to unconfirmed data, it lives in the southern parts of Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam.



Female Rinnie was born at Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle in 2007. She arrived at the Denver Zoo in 2010. Male Benny was born at the Belfast Zoo in Ireland in 2006 and came to the Denver Zoo in 2007. The pair was created on the recommendation of the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA) and the Rare Endangered Species Survival Plan (SSP).



Malay tapirs are the largest among all known tapirs. The length of the animal's body from 1.8 to 2.4 m, the height at the withers from 0.75 to 1 m, the weight is from 250 to 320 kilograms. The maximum recorded weight of the Malay tapir reached 540 kg. Interestingly, females are usually larger than males.



The number of these animals in the wild is less than 2 thousand individuals. The tapir is listed by IUCN in the International Red Book as a species threatened with complete extinction due to habitat loss.

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