I'm contrasting this with the large grass paddock our Brazilan Tapirs have. They spend time in the water, but graze on land, sunbathe and generally use the land area. Imagine keeping a horse in this size enclosure.
According to the AZA tapir care manual, the recommended space per a tapir in an exhibit is 600 square feet. Interesting fact, a tapir needs water provided to poop in otherwise it could experience rectal prolapse.
For more tapir husbandry info, look at this animal care manual provided by the AZA.
I would sure like to know as well … It seems like an interesting concept (not unlike how Zoo Dortmund keep their tapir with orang utan).
How many / sex of each langur species are on exhibit here?
The exhibit - tapir-wise - certainly has its flaws. It should be 3/4 land area and a good deep pool and a wallow area be nice too. When truly fine with tapir they do make everyday use of the pool and quite often do submerge ...
The exhibit is horrendous for the tapirs due to lack of space and lack of natural substrate on land, and I've always been under the impression that they could not access the higher ground. I don't think that it would be too difficult to place small-clawed otters in the exhibit, but the zoo has held tapirs here for almost 20 years.
I agree-like the same poor"exhibit"at Jungle World Bronx-Zoo-and both without any outdoor exhibt. A shame for any zood oing that, and I feeld Soryr for the poor tapirs.We defenitely need laws to forbid keeping large animals that way.
In the wild, all tapirs move around on land the most time-as like as rhinos do.And there is a big diffrence of the behaviour between tapirs being kept in large outdoor exhibits and the poor tapirs in only indoor exhibits like them...I bet, Omahas and Bronx' tapirs will be bored to death someday...
I agree-like the same poor"exhibit"at Jungle World Bronx-Zoo-and both without any outdoor exhibt. A shame for any zood oing that, and I feeld Soryr for the poor tapirs.We defenitely need laws to forbid keeping large animals that way.
To be fair Bronx's enclosure has considerably more land area than this and has more of a sand flooring, though it's still small. Bronx had an outdoor enclosure for their tapirs, but believe it or not they refused to go outside and preferred to stay indoors.
@Animal Just recently they added a set of stairs to go up into the planted section. Oddly enough, the elephant ears (or alocasias by the looks of it) are standing strong even in the presence of a 600 pound tapir.
