Aportes al Conocimiento de la Biologia de la Danta de Montana, Tapirus pinchaque, en los Andes Centrales de Colombia

Influence of extrinsic variables on activity and habitat selection of lowland tapirs (Tapirus terrestris) in the coastal sand plain shrub, southern Brazil

“…Alho et al 1987;capybaras). On other hand, in open habitats, the Andean tapir (T. pinchaque) showed strictly crepuscular activity, as a strategy to shun the extreme cold of Andean nights (Acosta et al 1996;Downer 1996 on the coldest days (Mourão and Medri 2007), forest environments, similarly to burrowing in small mammals (Medri 2008), can be used to thermal regulation. Rainfall patterns also influenced the selection of habitat.…”

Tapirus pinchaque (Perissodactyla: Tapiridae)

“…3;Hershkovitz 1954;Lizcano et al 2002;Lizcano and Sissa 2003;Nowak 1999;Thornback and Jenkins 1982). T. pinchaque is found in the Eastern and Central Cordilleras of Colombia (Acosta et al 1996;Lizcano et al 2002;Velasco-Abad and Alberico 1984) and the Eastern Cordillera of Ecuador (Geroudet 1970;Schauenberg 1969). Geographical isolation may have kept T. pinchaque out of the Western Cordillera of Colombia .…”

“…In Peru, T. pinchaque is found only in Ayabaca and Huancabamba provinces of the Department of Piura and Jaen Province of the Department of Cajamarca to about 6uS (Grimwood 1969), and along the Peru-Ecuador border in the Cordillera del Condor (Mittermeier et al 1975). Although T. pinchaque may once have occurred in western Venezuela (Cabrera 1961;Hershkovitz 1954), it probably no longer occurs there (Acosta et al 1996;Downer 1996a). Altitudinal range is from 1,400 to 4,700 m (Acosta et al 1996;Downer 1996a;Goudot 1843;Roulin 1829); T. pinchaque is most commonly found between 2,000 and 4,300 m (Downer 1996a).…”

“…Although T. pinchaque may once have occurred in western Venezuela (Cabrera 1961;Hershkovitz 1954), it probably no longer occurs there (Acosta et al 1996;Downer 1996a). Altitudinal range is from 1,400 to 4,700 m (Acosta et al 1996;Downer 1996a;Goudot 1843;Roulin 1829); T. pinchaque is most commonly found between 2,000 and 4,300 m (Downer 1996a).…”

“…Common names used in parts of the animal's range are: English, woolly tapir, Roulin's tapir, and pá ramo tapir; French, tapir pinchaque, tapir de Roulin, and tapir des Andes; German, Wolltapir and Bergtapir; Spanish, danta lanuda, danta cordillerana, danta conga, danta negra, danta del pá ramo, danta apizarrada, gran bestia, bestia negra, ante, and pizarra (Acosta et al 1996;Grimwood 1969;Hershkovitz 1954;Rodríguez-Mahecha et al 1995;Schauenberg 1969;Simpson 1945); and Quechua: sacha huagra (Schauenberg 1969). Huagra is another Quechua term for tapir, although it also is used for cattle (Hershkovitz 1954).…”