Any new info on Malayan Tapir?
Hi all!
Curious whether any new information has emerged on how/whether Malayan Tapir can be found. I see that two years ago the consensus was that the only useful hide at Taman Negara was closed, and then that last year there was mention here of having seen the animal at a hide again, without further details.
I’m heading to Malaysia for a short family trip next week and likely won’t make it to Taman Negara in any case, but would like to know what I’m missing on if so, haha. And thinking it might benefit someone else to collect here whatever info we collectively know about it at this point.
Cheers,
Evan
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Ian Thompson
Hello Evan. I also contacted Andrew Sebastian about the hide in the community forest outside Taman Negara. I was told that a tapir visits every 4 to 10 days or so. The cost was about 1600 Malaysian Ringgit for a night, I believe. I am told that Kumbang hide in Taman Negara is being repaired, but no one has a clear timeframe as to when it might be completed.
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Asanoth
I visited Taman Negara in 2023 and the Kumbang hide was already “broken”, so if it is not fixed now, it might actually never come to it.
We spent a night in Chegar Anjing hide, I seem to recall that Andrew advised us it would be “the same” as Kumbang, but between 6 pm and 2 am I saw exactly zero animals except for bats and small geckoes. Maybe just a bad luck – there were tapir tracks nearby the sand lick in front of the hide.
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Eduardo Ruiz
You can contact Andrew Sebastian at ajsebastian@hotmail.com, he can organize with local guides to a hide outside taman negara where they are seen. When i contacted him months ago not many people had used it so not sure about reliability but it was quite pricy for a hail mary attempt, he might have better information now if more people have gone. Good luck!