They are capable of taking down prey as large as Tapir but appear to be reclusive and uninterested in human activity.

These forest-types, which includes the Yungas and parts of the Chocó, are very rich in flora and fauna, although few large mammals exists, exceptions being the threatened Mountain Tapir, Spectacled Bear and Yellow-tailed Woolly Monkey.

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Outside, there are aviaries for Red-tailed Amazon parrots, an enclosure for Golden lion tamarins and three linked paddocks for Tapir and Capybara.

Large mammals characteristic of Indomalaya include the leopard, tigers, water buffalos, Asian Elephant, Indian Rhinoceros, Javan Rhinoceros, Malayan Tapir, orangutans, and gibbons.

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The wild mammals include, Malayan Tapir, Asian Elephant, Tiger, Sambar Deer, Bear, Guar, Banteng, Serow, Wild Boar, Pig Tailed Macaque, Langur, White handed Gibbon, Squirrel, Muntjak and Mouse Deer.

The Mountain Tapir is found in the cloud forests and páramo of the Eastern and Central Cordilleras mountains in Colombia, Ecuador, and the far north of Peru.

The Mountain Tapir commonly lives at elevations between, and since at this altitude temperatures routinely fall below freezing, the animal ’ s woolly coat is essential.

The Mountain Tapir has no recognised subspecies.

The Mountain Tapir is the least specialised of the living species of tapir, and has changed the least since the origin of the genus in the early Miocene.

Genetic studies have shown that the Mountain Tapirs diverged from its closest relative, the Brazilian Tapir, in the late Pliocene, around three million years ago.

The Mountain Tapir is the most threatened of the four tapir species, classified as " Endangered " by the IUCN in 1996.

Howletts also keep: Mantled Guereza, Gelada Baboon, African Hunting Dog, Dhole, Eastern Bongo, Black Rhino, Sumatran Tiger, Fishing Cat, Barbary Lion, Capybara, Northern Pudu, Giant Anteater, Silvery Gibbon, Bengal Tiger, Clouded Leopard, Pallas Cat, Red-bellied lemur, Black Lemur, black-and-white ruffed lemur, Crowned Lemur, Amur Tiger, Grizzled Leaf Monkey, Red River Hog, Serval, Helmeted Guineafowl, Nilgai, Axis Deer, Blackbuck, Hog Deer, Dusky leaf monkey, Sulawesi Crested Macaque, Indian Desert Cat, Francois Langur, Banded Leaf Monkey, Snow Leopard, Ocelot, North China Leopard, Iberian Wolf, Heck's Macaque, African Wild Cat, Eurasian Lynx, Honey Badger, European Bison, De Brazza's Monkey, Javan Langur, Brazilian Tapir and Greater Kudu.

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Sumatran tigers commonly prey on larger ungulates like wild pig, Malayan Tapir, and deer, and sometimes also smaller animals such as fowl, monkeys, and fish.

Tapir ( Tapirus terrestris ) snout showing flehmen.

The animals that can be seen in this exhibit include the Sumatran Tiger, Orangutan, Siamang, Babirusa, Anteater, and the Malayan Tapir.

It also combines Malayan Tapir and Dusky Leaf Monkey together.

Most important ( in descending order ) are Nine-banded Armadillo, Paca, South American Tapir, Capuchin monkey, White-lipped Peccary, South American Coati, Red Brocket, and Tegu lizards.

Costa Rican mammals range in size from the 3-gram Thumbless Bat of the Furipteridae family to the 250 kg ( 550 lb ) Baird's Tapir.

Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest described the Malayan Tapir in 1819 ; the Sunda Stink Badger and Paradoxurus hermaphroditus bondar, a subspecies of the Asian Palm Civet in 1820 ; the Sunda Pangolin, the Javan Rhinoceros, the Malayan Weasel, and the genus of Semnopithecus in 1822.

Corcovado is home to a sizable population of the endangered Baird's Tapir and even a small population of the very rare Harpy Eagle.

The baku ( spirit ) | baku, the basis for Drowzee, both in its appearance to the animal tapir and its ability to eat dreams.

Author Shannon Knudsen used Drowzee as an example of a fictional creature based on the mythological creature baku, a creature who also eats peoples ' dreams.

Gyaku / nage / katame / shime / tori / ouatsu / nukite / nukimi / shuho / baku

An early 17th century Japanese manuscript, the Sankai Ibutsu (), describes the baku as a shy, Chinese mythical chimera with an elephant ’ s trunk, rhinoceros eyes, an ox tail, and tiger paws, which protected against pestilence and evil, although eating nightmares was not included among its abilities.

Examples include Oshii Mamoru ’ s 1984 animated film Beautiful Dreamer, which is based on an episode of Rumiko Takahashi's manga Urusei Yatsura ( 1978-1987 ) that depicts the baku as a tapir.

A baku by Katsushika Hokusai.

The Japanese term baku has two current meanings, referring to both the traditional dream-devouring creature and to the zoological tapir ( e. g., the Malayan tapir ).

In recent years, there have been changes in how the baku is depicted.

Hori Tadao has described the dream-eating abilities attributed to the traditional baku and relates them to other preventatives against nightmare such as amulets.

Kaii-Yōkai Denshō Database, citing a 1957 paper, and Mizuki also describe the dream-devouring capacities of the traditional baku.

However, in a 1791 Japanese wood-block illustration, a specifically dream-destroying baku is depicted with an elephant ’ s head, tusks, and trunk, with horns and tiger ’ s claws.

The elephant ’ s head, trunk, and tusks are characteristic of baku portrayed in classical era ( pre-Meiji ) Japanese wood-block prints ( see illustration ) and in shrine, temple, and netsuke carvings.

Writing in the Meiji era, Lafcadio Hearn ( 1902 ) described a baku with very similar attributes that was also able to devour nightmares.

Since the 1980s, the baku appears not as a chimera of an elephant and tiger but as a zoologically recognizable tapir.

Dream-eating, tapir-shaped baku have also entered non-Japanese popular culture.

The picture book " The Dream Eater " by Christian Garrison tells the story of a young boy, Yukio, who meets a baku and brings it to his village.

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He listens to her plight, and in the ensuing conversation, the fox formulates a plan to capture a baku, and use it to take the monk's place on the third night.