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Humans hunt all tapir species for their meat and hide. Bairdâs or Central American tapirs are also hunted for sport in Costa Rica. And as humans clear the tapirs' habitats for farming, cattle grazing, palm oil and rubber plantations, or the growing of poppies for the opium trade, the animals' food supply decreases.alayan tapir Tapirus indicusâ The only tapir from Asia, it is found in Thailand, Burma, Malaysia, and Indonesia. It has a distinctive coat pattern: black in the front and white in the back. This acts as camouflage by breaking up the body outline in the shade of the forest.
Could be because the look like pigs with trunks, but are related to horses and rhinos. They are densely built and are at home on land as well as in water, they often submerge â¦ to eat from the bottom of rivers. They are found in the grasslands of Central and South America as will as in Asia.The black and white Malay Tapir can grow to 800lbs in weight.* it was the last country in the world to be populated by humans  * it has unique wildlife:NZ ecology developed in isolation. There are almost no native mammals (the bat is the only native mammal) so birds fill almost every niche and there are more flightless bird species than anywhere else.