Scientific name:
Acrocodia indica

Natural spread:
Thailand, Sumatra, Malaysia

the Schabrackentapir is not only the single old-terrestrial representative of the tapirs but also the biggest type of the family.

Shape This tapir rarely doesn't reach body-heights of 1,20 m and becomes up to 2,50 m long. it possesses the longest and strongest trunk, however no neck-comb and no mane. its grain-y fur is smooth and short, black or brown-black and from the middle until the end of the torso silver-knows put, so that it looks like a thrown over Schabracke.

Habitat The Schabrackentapir lives in Sumatra, the Malay archipelago and rear-India as far as at the borders of Burma and Thailand. There, it lives mainly in the valleys with dense swamp-forests.

Way of life Like all tapirs, they live einzelgängerisch and very hidden and positions real tunnel-ways through the thicket for itself, like the South American lowland-tapir, at solid changes. Since the single natural enemy of the Schabrackentapire of the tigers is, things would be not at all so badly with the conservation of the type, because also from this big-cat, there are only few copies in the wild. However close cultivation and Trockenlegung of the landscape the habitat of the tapirs strongly one. The rest procures like almost everywhere the human being, that pursues it, where it can always become in possession for the harmless animal. It is specified reasons for it gladly that the Schabrackentapire attack the cornfields at night and prepared big damage, which should be, however, very exaggerated surely, since tapirs avoid themselves mutually and therefore never appear in large groups. The not Moslem population Thailand bejagt the animals also because of its meat, however, what doesn't occur in the Moslem areas of Malaysia and Sumatra, since one considers the tapir a pig there.

Reproduction In the reproductive-biology, the Schabrackentapir essentially doesn't differ from the lowland-tapir and the other representatives of the family. Heavy boy after a Tragzeit of approximately 400 days comes develop fully into the world the approximately 7,5 kg in the typical striped "Frischlingskleid." However, the reason-color tends more to the black with this type, so that they almost white Längsbänderung and - punktung even more contrastingly works, as this is the case with the other tapirs. After approximately 6 months, the Streifung vanishes gradually and begins the typical silvery Schabracke to stand out. How strikingly this fur-drawing may appear to us at the first moment, so well however its bearers are through it in that of light and shadow dominated environment of the forests camouflaged. A recumbent Schabrackentapir is to be hardly amounted.

Endangering The Schabrackentapir is threatened through Bejagung and habitat-destruction. it is protected by the Washingtoner Artenschutzübereinkommen.