This is an extremely rare skull from my collection. It was given to me after the dissection at Pomona College (Claremont, California) of a second generation lowland x Baird's tapir hybrid. This hybrid is 3 parts lowland tapir and 1 part Baird's. It lived at the Los Angeles zoo from about the 1950s or early 1960s until its death around 1973. We were given the frozen carcass, which we took to Pomona college so the zoology class could dissect it. The parents can be seen in the album of living mixed and hybrid tapirs here: http://picasaweb.google.com/tapirgal/TapirsMixedAndGenericPhotos# The female is a Baird's-lowland hybrid (first generation) and the male is a lowland tapir. Photo by Sheryl Todd, April 24, 2001.
This is an extremely rare skull from my collection. It was given to me after the dissection at Pomona College (Claremont, California) of a second generation lowland x Baird's tapir hybrid. This hybrid is 3 parts lowland tapir and 1 part Baird's. It lived at the Los Angeles zoo from about the 1950s or early 1960s until its death around 1973. We were given the frozen carcass, which we took to Pomona college so the zoology class could dissect it. The parents can be seen in the album of living mixed and hybrid tapirs here: http://picasaweb.google.com/tapirgal/TapirsMixedAndGenericPhotos# The female is a Baird's-lowland hybrid (first generation) and the male is a lowland tapir. Photo by Sheryl Todd.
Front feet of tapirs. The top one is a Malayan tapir (photo by Heidi Frohring, Woodland Park Zoo, Seattle). The bottom picture is the front foot of a mountain tapir at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo in Colorado Springs - photo by Sheryl Todd.
