The 'Baird's' part of the name Baird's tapir comes from Baird. The 'tapir' element is derived from the word tapir, because it is a tapir.
Glad that you asked.....A tapir is an omnivore and almost everybody thinks that it's a vegetarian. But one day my friend Jeremy and I went to the Amazon Rainforest in South America and we saw a tapir hunting for several baby toucans and ate some plants so a tapir is an omnivore. So back to the question, the tapir consists a diet of berries, leaves and fruit but a tapir also eats baby toucans, banded rattlesnakes and some tapirs, fish hope this helped and I am not lying because My friend Jeremy and I actually saw a baby toucan being eaten by a tapir if you want the specific tapir type its the Brazilian Tapir HOPED THIS HELPED!
The 'Baird's' part of the name Baird's tapir comes from Baird. The 'tapir' element is derived from the word tapir, because it is a tapir.
brazilian tapir
Tapir
Humans have been known to hunt the tapir for its meat and skin. Some species of tapir are threatened or endangered for this reason.
Some examples of some threatened habitats are Tundra and The Tropical Rainforest also there is the Temperate Raifforest.
There are four tapir species, and their latin names are as follows: * Baird's Tapir, Tapirus bairdii * Malayan Tapir, Tapirus indicus * Mountain Tapir, Tapirus pinchaque * Brazilian Tapir (also called Lowland Tapir), Tapirus terrestris But different species can actually breed with each other in zoos etc. to produce hybrids. The baby hybrids are then called whatever the zoo staff want to call them.
yes a tapir does exist
A Mountain Tapir is known to be Black with a Brown Nose A Baby Mountain Tapir is White with Brown Strips A LowLand Tapir is known to be Grey with a White Chest And a Baby LowLand Tapir is Grey with Black Strips A Baird Tapir is also known to be a little Grey with a White Cheek and Chest and a Baby Baird Tapir is White with a little Brown in it.. A Malayan Tapir is Black with a White Behind and Back and a Baby Malayan Tapir is White with a little black in it.. A Marlen Tapir is Brown with a little White on its back and a Baby Marlen Tapir is White with some Black spots A Tobler Tapir is Light Brown with a Cinnamon Neck and a Baby Tobler Tapir is Black Also with a Cinnamon Neck A Miguelle Tapir is White with a Shade of Grey on its back and the Baby Miguelle Tapir is Brown with Cinnamon color Strips
malayan tapir
A Baird's tapir is a species of tapir, Latin name Tapirus bairdii, native to Central America.