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the neck is also thought to serve as protection against predation (Sandborn and Watkins, 1950). If a tiger does attack a tapir, the tapir will run away seeking water to escape (Morris, 2005). If the tiger attaches to a tapir’s neck, the tapir will attempt to bash the tiger against a tree (Anon., 1834). 27
STUDY AREA CHAPTER III METHODOLOGY All the tapirs observed in this study were housed at the Sedgwick County Zoological Gardens in Wichita, Kansas, USA. The Malay tapirs were housed in an enclosure open to birds within the Asian exhibit (Figure 7). The birds included demoiselle crane (Anthropoides virgo), white stork (Ciconia ciconia), white pelican (Pelecanus onocrotalus), bar-headed goose (Anser indicus), and ruddy shelduck (Tadorna ferruginea). The Indian muntjacs (Muntiacus muntjak) were housed adjacent to the tapirs and occasionally jumped the fence and moat into the tapir area. There was a hut which serves both as double doors to keep the animals within the confines of the display, as well as, a bridge over the stream-shaped pool which ran through the exhibit. At the base of the hut was wire mesh fencing, which served to separate the tapir enclosure from the rest of the exhibit. The public observation area had decorative plantings of hostas, daylilies, and grasses; which separated the dry moat from a post and rail fence used to keep the public out. The moat was concrete and about a meter wide and a meter deep. The stream was deepest at the hut then became progressively shallower and narrower. Most of the enclosure was surrounded by a tall chain link fence. Vegetation consisted of a few large trees, some saplings (both along the 28
Page 1 and 2: TAPIR BEHAVIOR- AN EXAMINATION OF A
Page 3 and 4: ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Writing these ackn
Page 5 and 6: My family and friends, especially m
Page 7 and 8: V. DISCUSSION .....................
Page 9 and 10: LIST OF FIGURES Figure Page 1. Perc
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Page 15 and 16: different species, and only general
Page 17 and 18: GENERAL CHAPTER II REVIEW OF LITERA
Page 19 and 20: 20-30 million years ago 21-25 milli
Page 21 and 22: Habitat loss and fragmentation is t
Page 23 and 24: occupied during the day was much la
Page 25 and 26: selection to facilitate thermoregul
Page 27 and 28: To obtain detoxifying chemicals, ta
Page 29 and 30: growth during the first year of the
Page 31 and 32: MALAY TAPIR (Tapirus indicus) Distr
Page 33 and 34: Habitat use Tapirs are nocturnal fo
Page 35 and 36: 1990; Williams and Petrides, 1980).
Page 37: Social Behavior Once thought to be
Page 41 and 42: Figure 7. Schematic of the Malay ta
Page 43 and 44: Figure 8. Schematic of the Baird’
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Page 47 and 48: PILOT STUDY In August 2005, I condu
Page 49 and 50: Table 2. Individual and the dates a
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Page 53 and 54: SPATIAL USE Each enclosure was divi
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Page 57 and 58: Figure 11. Baird’s tapir exhibit
Page 59 and 60: MOTHER- YOUNG INTERACTIONS The phys
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Page 63 and 64: ehaviors in the “other” categor
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Page 69 and 70: Stationary behaviors had were low i
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The Redundancy Anaylsis (RDA) of be
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Table 8. The hierarchical log-linea
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ACTIVITY PATTERNS General Patterns
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Swaisgood and Shepherdson, 2005). Z
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temperature and often occurs during
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ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS The RDA indic
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while allowing tapirs to be in more
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For Cayos, sections V and U2 were a
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investigation can be explained by o
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MOTHER-YOUNG INTERACTIONS Of the be
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RECOMMENDATIONS FOR ZOOS The recomm
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LITERATURE CITED Abdulali H. 1952.
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Bodmer RE. 1995. Priorities for the
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APPENDIX 120
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Table 11. Literature on tapirs in c
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Magnoliopsida cont. 156+ Dispersed
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Magnoliopsida cont. 156+ Dispersed
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Magnoliopsida cont. 94+ Dispersed (
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VITA Maurine Jennifer Gilmore Candi
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