{"id":9533,"date":"2019-08-08T01:32:48","date_gmt":"2019-08-08T01:32:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/safaribaliticket.com\/?p=9533"},"modified":"2020-04-06T02:59:49","modified_gmt":"2020-04-06T02:59:49","slug":"all-about-tapir-from-little-snout-to-water-spa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allbaliticket.com\/balisafari\/all-about-tapir-from-little-snout-to-water-spa\/","title":{"rendered":"All About Tapir: From Little Snout To Water Spa"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\" id=\"wpb-content-root\">[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/allbaliticket.com\/balisafari\/wp-content\/uploads\/tapir-bali-safari-park.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-9534 size-full\" width=\"800\" height=\"420\">[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<b><span lang=\"EN-GB\">All About Tapir: From Little Snout To Water Spa<\/span><\/b><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">If you have to guess a quiz about animals that resemble pigs, but actually are still relatives of horses and rhinos, what is your answer? Perhaps you would not expect that the tapir is the animal in question. This lineage is very ancient, and it is believed that the tapir have changed over millions of years of evolution.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Species<\/span><\/b><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Tapirs live in forests in Central America, South America and Southeast Asia. There used to be many types of tapirs on earth, but unfortunately one by one came to extinction and now there are only five species of tapir left, which are: <i>Tapirus bairdii<\/i> or commonly called the Central American tapir, commonly found in Mexico and Central America; <i>Tapirus terrestris<\/i> or Brazilian tapirs generally live in Brazil, Colombia, Argentina, Venezuela, Paraguay, Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">There is also <i>Tapirus kabomani <\/i>or little black tapir which can be found on the Amazon in Colombia; <i>Tapirus pinchaque<\/i> or mountain tapir that lives in the Cordilleras mountain area in Colombia, Ecuador, and in the northern part of Peru. The one that lives in Southeast Asia is <i>Tapirus indicus<\/i> or the Malayan tapir with the characteristic &#8216;white shirt&#8217; on their body. This species can be found in Indonesia, Thailand, Cambodia, Malaysia, Vietnam and Myanmar.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"cp_highlight teal\">Also READ<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/allbaliticket.com\/balisafari\/bali-safari-marine-park-packages\/bsm-014-breakfast-with-lion-uluwatu-temple-tour\/\">Breakfast with Lion + Uluwatu Temple tour package<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/allbaliticket.com\/balisafari\/bali-safari-marine-park-packages\/bsm-013-breakfast-with-lion-saba-bay-horse-ride-tour\/\">Breakfast with Lion + Horse riding<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Physical Appearance<\/span><\/b><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Adult tapirs have a bulky body with a weight ranging from 150 to 300 kg, with a height of about 1 m and a length of 2 m. Their fur is generally thin, except for mountain tapirs that have long fur. The color varies from brownish gray, reddish brown, to dark blackish. For Malayan tapir there is white shades like t-shirts that wrap around their belly.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">The little trunk they have is very flexible and can be moved in any direction, its function is to take leaves that are difficult to reach. This proboscis is also very sensitive, able to smell the food and aroma left by other tapirs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Diet<\/span><\/b><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Tapirs live by eating fruit, leaves and berries. Tapirs have a big appetite, and their main activity every day is to forage in the bush, using their unique snout to smell the food trail. An adult tapir can consume about 40 kg of food every day. No wonder their bodies are stocky and bulky.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Water Spa<\/span><\/b><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Tapirs do spend most of their time on dry land, but they also like to soak or swim in the water. There are many benefits they get from being in the water, which is to eat water plants, cool the body during hot days, also to hide from predators.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Not only that, tapirs also like water for reasons of relaxation and treatment just like a spa. When bathing in water there will be many small fishes that come and eat parasites and dead cells to keep their bulky bodies healthy and clean. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"cp_highlight teal\">Check Also<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/allbaliticket.com\/balisafari\/\">Price List Bali Safari Marine park with Hotel Transfer<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/allbaliticket.com\/balisafari\/bali-safari-and-marine-park-price\/\">Price List Bali Safari Marine park without hotel transfer<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text][\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]All About Tapir: From Little Snout To Water Spa If you have to guess a quiz about animals that resemble pigs, but actually are still relatives of horses and rhinos, what is your answer? Perhaps you would not expect that the tapir is the animal in question. This lineage is very ancient, and it is &#8230; <a title=\"All About Tapir: From Little Snout To Water Spa\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/allbaliticket.com\/balisafari\/all-about-tapir-from-little-snout-to-water-spa\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about All About Tapir: From Little Snout To Water Spa\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9534,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[58],"class_list":["post-9533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tourist-attraction","tag-bali-safari","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-50"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allbaliticket.com\/balisafari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allbaliticket.com\/balisafari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allbaliticket.com\/balisafari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allbaliticket.com\/balisafari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allbaliticket.com\/balisafari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9533"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/allbaliticket.com\/balisafari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10243,"href":"https:\/\/allbaliticket.com\/balisafari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9533\/revisions\/10243"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allbaliticket.com\/balisafari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allbaliticket.com\/balisafari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allbaliticket.com\/balisafari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allbaliticket.com\/balisafari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}