Tapirus terrestris (Linnaeus, 1758)

Jansen, Martin, Engler, Marc, Blumer, Luka Moritz, Rumiz, Damián I., Aramayo, José Luis & Krone, Oliver, 2020, A camera trapping survey of mammals in the mixed landscape of Bolivia’s Chiquitano region with a special focus on the Jaguar, Check List 16 (2), pp. 323-335 : 331-332

Tapirus terrestris (Linnaeus, 1758)

South American Tapir, Anta ó Tapir

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Examined material. BOLIVIA; Province of Ñuflo de Chávez of Santa Cruz Department; Centro “Chiquitos”; camera stations 9, 10, 11, 12 ( Table 1); first capture on 11 May 2017; primary forest and border of pastureland to forest.

Identification. The Tapir is an unmistakable, large mammal with a uniformly dark gray-brown body, a short hair crest along the neck, and a long, flexible nose.

Captures of Jaguar individuals. Of the 137 capture events of Jaguars, at least seven individuals could be identified by their individual coat patterns ( Table 4). Six individuals were adult; two were females (#2 and 5), three were males (#1, 3 and 6), and one was undetermined (#4) because sex-specific traits were not apparent in the images. For 15 capture events, the individual could not be explicitly identified, as the quality of images was too low. One adult female was observed with a young, which indicates reproductive success of this species within the study site. We compared the number of capture events of Jaguars with the two types of land use (primary forest vs altered habitat) in the study area to test the hypothesis that there would be more Jaguar detections in primary forest than in altered habitat. Camera stations in forests had a higher number of Jaguar occurrences (median = 22) than those in semi-open pastureland (median = 8; Wilcoxon Mann-Whitney U test, U = 24, p = 0.014).