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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.
Historical Examples. 1  And the white bones of the tapir lay in a huddled mass in the open. 2  The tapir, then, in point of size takes precedence in the South-American fauna. 3  It now only remained to get the tapir into it, but therein lay the difficulty. 4  Guapo kept his promise with the tapir, and on that very same day.