News Headline
Black, white and unique: the Malayan tapir struggles for recognition
Source
Mongabay.com
Publication Date
2016-09-08
Two-month old Asahan sucks milk greedily from a bottle. The baby Malayan tapir — his spotty brown juvenile coat already morphing to the distinctive black and white of an adult — was rescued by local villagers who found the displaced animal wandering alone through an oil palm plantation and then handed him over to Malaysia’s wildlife department.