Tapir

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Post cover — Image courtesy of "New Straits Times Online"

Tapir 'checks-in' to Melaka hotel (New Straits Times Online)

MELAKA: The Fire and Rescue Services Department together with the Wildlife and National Parks Department (Perhilitan) took more than five hours to catch a ...

Tapir 'checks in' at Melaka hotel on New Year's Day (The Straits Times)

The tapir was sedated by game rangers before it was handed over to the Animal Welfare Department. Read more at straitstimes.com.

The last sighting of a tapir in Singapore was on Pulau Ubin in 1986. But in 2016, a tapir was spotted in Changi. In a Facebook post, the Melaka Fire and Rescue Department said it received a call for help at about 9am.

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Stray tapir captured in Bandar Hilir hotel carpark (The Sun Daily)

MALACCA: A stray tapir weighing about 250 to 290 kilogrammes was found on the fifth floor car park of a hotel in Bandar Hilir here today before it was...

He said the tapir also suffered minor injuries on its legs and was transferred to Malacca Zoo for treatment before being sent to the National Wildlife Rescue Centre (NWRC) in Sungkai, Perak. Commenting further, Mohd Firdaus said a total of ten members of Perhilitan were also dispatched to the scene and waited for the tapir to calm down and stabilised before it was captured in a confined space there. MALACCA: A stray tapir weighing about 250 to 290 kilogrammes was found on the fifth floor car park of a hotel in Bandar Hilir here today before it was captured and relocated to Malacca Zoo.

Stray tapir nabbed in Banda Hilir hotel car park (The Malaysian Insight)

Animal believed to have wandered off from forest in the north of Malacca.

It was finally found today, lost on the fifth floor of a hotel car park,” he told reporters here today. “Perhilitan has been observing and trying to locate the tapir for the past two weeks. A STRAY tapir weighing about 250-290kg was found on the fifth floor car park of a hotel in Banda Hilir, Malacca today, before it was captured and relocated to Malacca Zoo.

Stray tapir captured in Banda Hilir hotel carpark (Malaysiakini)

Perhilitan says it has been trying to locate the tapir for the past two weeks.

Tapir 'checks in' at hotel (The Star Online)

MELAKA: A Malayan tapir wandering about 50km away from its habitat was on the radar of the Wildlife and National Parks Department for two weeks before it ...

A Melaka Fire and Rescue Department spokesman said the animal was sedated by Perhilitan rangers at about noon. The captured female tapir weighs about 200kg to 300kg. MELAKA: A Malayan tapir wandering about 50km away from its habitat was on the radar of the Wildlife and National Parks Department for two weeks before it “checked in” at a hotel here.