Scientific Name:
Tapirus indicus

Classification:
Order : Perissodactyla
Family : Tapiridae

Description:
The color pattern of the young is different from the parent, where the young is black with white spots and stripes. The transition to the adult colour pattern begins at about 3 months of age. Tapir can live for 25-35 years.

Behavior:
Adults are solitary, being accompanied only by dependent young. Active largely but not exclusively by night wandering long distances on regular trails through the forest.

Habitat:
In forests from the lowlands to mountain tops.

Reproduction:
One young is born after a gestation period of 13 - 13½ months.

Similar Species:
South American Tapirs.

Diet:
Leaves, grass and fallen fruits.