🐎Baird's tapir
De Midden-Amerikaanse of Bairds tapir (Tapirus bairdii) is met een gewicht van ca. 300 kilogram de grootste Amerikaanse vertegenwoordiger van de familie Tapiridae. Aangezien de verwantschap tussen de hedendaagse tapirs niet geheel duidelijk is, wordt de Midden-Amerikaanse tapir tot een eigen geslacht (Tapirella) gerekend. De wetenschappelijke naam van de soort werd voor het eerst geldig gepubliceerd door Theodore Nicholas Gill in 1865. Hij noemde de soort naar Spencer Fullerton Baird.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2016.
- Body mass
- 300 kg
- Body length
- 2.35 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 30 years
Everything we know about the Baird's tapir
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass300 kgCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Body length2.35 mCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Brain mass122 gCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Maximum lifespan30 yearsCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Generation length11 yearsCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Age at maturity1.9 yearsCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Gestation1.1 yearsCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Litter size1COMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Trophic levelHerbivoreCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Activity cycleNocturnalCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Home range1.15 km²COMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Population density0.41 per km²COMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l300 LaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.
average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.
Not recorded for Baird's tapir yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classMammalia
- ›orderPerissodactyla
- ›familyTapiridae
- ›genusTapirella
- ›speciesTapirella bairdii
- classMammals · Mammalia
- orderOdd-toed hoofed animals · Perissodactyla
- familyTapiridae
- genusTapirella
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- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- classMammals · Mammalia
- subclassTheria
- superorderLaurasiatheria
- orderOdd-toed hoofed animals · Perissodactyla
- familyTapiridae
- genusTapirella
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