Drayton Manor Theme Park Tapir enclosure

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At drayton manor, i love this enclosure i would love to work with tapirs, did some work with them while on work ex.

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yes i will place them in the gallery, when i go on my other computer
 
A nice enclosure. I've seen apirs at many zoos, and I oved the enclosures at:
Blackbrook
Chester
Los Angeles
San Diego ( Malayans )
Zurich
Antwerp

I also saw them at Lille zoo when I was on the French Exchange. They have a huge enclosure with about 10 species of animals, Alpaca, tapir, mara, capybara, rhea, lots of waterfowl.

I have seen all four species of Tapir. They are one of my favourite animals.
 
Twycross has two sp. i also know they have some off show that they were looking after before the zoo they where looking after them for shut down so got stuck with them, not sure which sp sorry
 
Malayans are also kept at that new one in Kent called something like the Rare Species Conservation Centre. Also, do any of the Aspinall's hold them?

RSCC - Animals
 
Port lypmne has malayans, and howlett's has a pair of malayans, and I beleive that they have a lowland mother and her year old son. Something like that.
 
Here is the link to the collection Chris was referring to

RSCC - Home

The first time I tried to find it I had no luck at all, and eventually accessed it through the BIAZA site. Strangely all the text was in Latin. I'm pretty good at translating scientific names, but whole paragraphs of Latin were unreadable to me.

It was in English the last time I looked.
 
I'll start a thread about tapirs. as it seems that we have some fans!!! If you are looking for a good website about tapirs then tapir gallery is your best bet. It has lot's of info about Tapirs and has pictures of youngsters born at Los Angeles zoo.
 
Hello. I have just registered on the site!
There are 2 malayans at Twycross - Madge and Colin (Colin arrived recently from Heidelberg). And there are 2 Brazilians, Zimba and Suki. They did have 3 other Brazilians, a male, female, and male baby in 2004 who were lodging from Southport Zoo when it closed down who weren't on show - I don't know what happened to them though ( I went there to study them for my tapir dissertation for college).

My favourite tapir enclosure, of the ones i have seen is at Longleat. They have recently had a baby tapir born there(called Hugo!)

Its a shame Blackbrook have got rid of their tapir - I liked that enclosure. From reading the post on Blackbrook, is it the Heythrop/ Amazing Animals that she went to?

And where is this Rare Species Conservation place come from? Does anyone know where their tapirs they have came from?
 
The best tapir enclosure in the UK is undoubtedly the complex at Port Lympne, originally intended for Sumatran Rhino, until their female died and the male was returned to Indonesia (he was mixed with Malayan tapir for some time until his departure). They hold 2.4 Malayan Tapirs, including a calf born last year, in large wooded paddocks.

The other malayan tapir in the UK are 1.1 at Belfast (breeding pair), 2.1 at Edinburgh (breeding pair with calf born this year, the female is the 2004 calf born in London zoo), 1.1 at Twycross, 1.1 at Sandwich in Kent (possibly from Howletts as the Howletts pair vanished around this time), and 1.1 at London Zoo.

The tapir enclosure at London zoo is well-planted despite the small area, but since the birth of the calf in 2004, they have allowed public access to the indoor quarters again. The vast wooded banks below the clore pavillion could easily be fenced for these animals, it seems such a shame that more collections don't house them in the same way as port lympne.
 
skoop102 said:
They did have 3 other Brazilians, a male, female, and male baby in 2004 who were lodging from Southport Zoo when it closed down who weren't on show - I don't know what happened to them though ( I went there to study them for my tapir dissertation for college).
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Last time i seen them where offshow at the farm they have :)
 
Hey sorry to bring this up again, jsut a quick question twycross can drain there pond out, but this one cant be drained it like a pond, so are others cleaned or dirty ??
 
Like a number of mammal species that live near water, tapirs defecate in water to obscure their presence from predators. In captivity, lowland tapirs tend to use the same place, so it is normally possibly to clear out that part of the pond without draining the whole thing. Alternatively, it is possible to encourage them to use a marshy/boggy area created separately from the main swimming area. Smaller, concrete pools need to be drained and scrubbed because the droppings cannot settle into mud at the bottom of the water.
 
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