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Malayan Tapir Chester Zoo 2013

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female Malayan Tapir (Tapirus indicus), the first specimen to be kept at Chester for thirty years.

Chester Zoo 6th February 2013
female Malayan Tapir (Tapirus indicus), the first specimen to be kept at Chester for thirty years.

Chester Zoo 6th February 2013
 
Where is it being kept until the new Islands area is built? I can't wait to visit Chester Zoo again in the future and see all of the promising new developments.
 
Where is it being kept until the new Islands area is built? I can't wait to visit Chester Zoo again in the future and see all of the promising new developments.

It's in the Cattle House (the enclosure that most recently had warthogs, opposite the Chimp House).
 
Thanks for the explanation. If you had left it at Cattle House I'd still be lost. :)

:D

That house has changed its 'official' name a few times over the years, but it's always 'the Cattle House' to the regulars! (although it's not been all-cattle for years, not since the anoa first arrived, but the buffalo have been the most stable presence of late, with the other paddock changing every few years)
 
Where were Malayan tapir last kept at the zoo? It seems they stopped keeping this species just as I started to visit the zoo as a child.
 
Malayan Tapir were last kept in the old Pachyderm House, the outside enclosure stood more or less where the shop is now. The zoo exhibited this species between 1961 and 1983.

Pertinax I hadn't even noticed the brickwork.
 
Yes I remember that. They had lowland tapir - and capybara maybe too at one point - there in the later 80s/90s I think.
 

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