ADW: Malayan tapir
Malayan tapir
Animal Diversity Web
University of Michigan
Museum of Zoology
Habitat
Found in tropical lowland and highland rainforest where there is a permanent supply of water. They tend to shelter in forests and thickets during the daytime, but come out at night to forage on grasslands or near water.
Food Habits
The Malayan tapir is a vegetarian non-ruminant. The diet consists of grasses, leaves, aquatic plants, and twigs. Salt is well liked by tapirs, which will go out of their way to find it.
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