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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.
The family tree (below) is not fully resolved; while the American tapirs would logically group together (as shown here), some genetic studies have clustered the Baird's tapir (Tapirus bairdii) next to the Asian tapir (Tapirus indicus), away from the other two American species.apirs are forest animals and feed on softer vegetation-they have not developed the cursorial adaptations of the equids, nor the high-crowned teeth for grazing on grass. Infant tapirs possess a striking pattern of white stripes and spots over their bodies, providing camouflage for their first 5-8 months.