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Kabomani(??) tapir, March 2016

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Photo taken on the 26th March 2016.
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OH!! I am going to come back to this photo when I have a bit more time, and then do some googling! Exciting if so!
 
well I spent some time googling. The only photos I could find of living animals were camera trap photos identified by local hunters as belonging to the species (included in the original description), and one of a young animal captive at Cobija which is apparently of the species.

So I don't know. The characteristics don't seem settled for distinguishing it reliably from the regular Brazilian Tapir, and internal characteristics are obviously of no help for a photo.
 
Tbh I would say it is indeed a Kabomani tapir , referring to this picture :

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See , same dark face with practically no white area and top of the ears being white and ''brownish'' mane .

Brazilian tapirs have a more pronounced white area , some individuals are indeed dark (but most of them are kind of brown) and they have dark manes (for the majority)

Again I could be totally wrong :D
 
I'm confused by what you are saying? The photo you posted is a tame Brazilian Tapir at Yasuni National Park in Ecuador.
 
These individuals were much darker and smaller than I expected; I initially thought they might be subadult T. terrestris until I got close enough to get a good look and found that they had a youngster of their own.
 
there are a couple of short videos on Youtube of the tapirs, one of which has a keeper for scale. Put "parque jaime duque tapirs" into Google Images and the first two results are the Youtube videos.
 

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