Copenhagen Zoo - Tapir stall

The indoor stalls for malayan tapirs in Copenhagen Zoo. These stalls are very old and used to house common hippopotamus until about eight years back. The stalls work much better for tapirs than hippoes.
February 2008

Do the public have access to this stall?

Yes, the picture is taken from the visitors' area. This house is one of the oldest at the zoo and is also where the first giraffe in Copenhagen was housed many many years ago.

Thanks. I never saw it during my visit, but the green sign in this picture made me suspicious
Shame that I missed this opportunity to see them since they had gone inside when I was about to take a proper look at them in the late afternoon and I thought I had missed them... (Had some short glimpses of them earlier in the day though)

I am not fond of this night stable for the tapirs, in which the animals probably spend 16 hours every day. There is a pool in the middle, but it can only be used by one of the two animals at a time, as far as I can understand. I do not know much about tapirs but I guess that the zoo is keeping a male and and a female and that for this species the sexes must be kept apart most of the time?

Is that so?

The Woodland Park Zoo only has its malayan tapirs together for breeding purposes, and so I imagine that the Copenhagen Zoo has similar husbandry methods.

Edinburgh have their tapirs together all the time. This stall seems better than most, it's not very often that tapirs get an indoor pool.

Well, I still think it is too small... but then I always do, as you know .

@Dan: These stalls are actually not as bad as they might look. They may be old but they serve their function. The stall in this picture is the male's. The female has a stall about 30% bigger than the male's. The tapirs are kept separated when they are not in the breeding season.

The indoor pool used to house the hippoes and it works much better for tapirs. There is only one so the tapirs have to share it (which is no problem).

I think its a law i Sweden that the Tapirs must have indoor pool in the stabels. I think it is great! I have visit this indoor enclosure and I dont think is to bad. But did it really work to have hippos there? It looks so small fore that big animal...