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Malayan tapirs in Europe

 
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Their female is called Gertrude and is 3 1/2 and was bred in Belfast! Im not 100% on the details of their male but I know he is a good bit older and has been there for a good few years!
Assuming it's still the same tapir, the London male is called Hutan (born at Dortmund Zoo, 1997?).
Hutan has already produced one offspring (the female Sayang now at Edinburgh) with his previous partner, Doris, who died in 2005, so he is able to breed.
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Old 16-03-2008
So in the UK there are currently Malayan tapirs at;

Belfast(breeding)/ Edinburgh(breeding)/Twycross/ London ZSL(past breeding)/ Port Lympne & Howletts(breeding)/ RSCC, Kent.

Any others?
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I saw 2 malayans in zoo aquarium madrid last weekend. I think it was 1,1 but to be honest i didn´t really pay a lot of attention to them (gaur in the next enclosure...). What was interesting about the tapir was that they were combined with a male babirousa. They got along fine, the babirousa even whiped his ass against the back of a laying tapir, and it didn't mind.
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the babirousa even whiped his ass against the back of a laying tapir, and it didn't mind.
useful information if you're caught short and there's a tapir handy....
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Plus: any news on Nico and Signora breeding and a new pregnancy at Zoo Antwerpen?
Since a couple of weeks / days, Nico and Signora are breeding again. So, at the best, their will a third baby of them in September 2009.
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Old 28-08-2008
Do you have any blindness problems with Malay tapirs in Europe?
Australian zoos are about to give up on keeping them because, slowly but surely, they go blind (and no-one is really certain why - lots of untested theories, though.)
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A Malayan tapirs should arrive in England for CERZA. You know news ?
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