What is the maximal age a Malayan tapir reaches?
An adult Malayan tapir (Tapirus indicus) usually gets as old as 30 years.
Malayan tapirs are around 396 days in the womb of their mother. When born, they weight 6.85 kg (15.1 lbs) and measure 5.6 cm (0′ 3″). As a member of the Tapiridae family (genus: Tapirus), their offspring is 1 babies per pregnancy. Fully grown, they reach a bodylength of 2.22 meter (7′ 4″).
As a reference: Usually, humans get as old as 100 years, with the average being around 75 years. After being carried in the belly of their mother for 280 days (40 weeks), they grow to an average size of 1.65m (5′ 5″) and weight in at 62 kg (137 lbs), which is obviously highly individual.
The Malayan tapir (Tapirus indicus), also called the Asian tapir, Asiatic tapir, Oriental tapir, Indian tapir, or piebald tapir, is the largest of the four widely-recognized species of tapir and the only one native to Asia. The scientific name refers to the East Indies, the species’ natural habitat. In the Malay language, the tapir is commonly referred to as cipan, tenuk or badak tampung.
Animals of the same family as a Malayan tapir
Not really brothers and sisters, but from the same biological family (Tapiridae):
- Mountain tapir with 1 babies per pregnancy
- South American tapir becoming 35 years old
- Baird’s tapir with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that reach the same age as Malayan tapir
With an average age of 30 years, Malayan tapir are in good companionship of the following animals:
- Rough-toothed dolphin usually reaching 32 years
- Mona monkey usually reaching 30 years
- Okapi usually reaching 33 years
- Guianan squirrel monkey usually reaching 27 years
- Red-bellied titi usually reaching 25.25 years
- Aardwolf usually reaching 25 years
- Silvery lutung usually reaching 31.08 years
- Sumatran rhinoceros usually reaching 35 years
- Amazon river dolphin usually reaching 30 years
- Banteng usually reaching 26.5 years
Animals with the same number of babies Malayan tapir
The same number of babies at once (1) are born by:
- Peters’s trumpet-eared bat
- Lake Mackay hare-wallaby
- Sambar deer
- Robert’s snow vole
- Spotted seal
- Red brocket
- Black lemur
- Striped bandicoot
- Speke’s pectinator
- Sun-tailed monkey
Weighting as much as Malayan tapir
A fully grown Malayan tapir reaches around 309.61 kg (682.56 lbs). So do these animals:
- Mountain zebra weighting 279.73 kilos (616.7 lbs) on average
- Takin weighting 292.76 kilos (645.42 lbs) on average
- Leopard seal weighting 352.84 kilos (777.88 lbs) on average
- Burchell’s zebra weighting 278.08 kilos (613.06 lbs) on average
- Anoa weighting 256 kilos (564.38 lbs) on average
- New Zealand sea lion weighting 273.67 kilos (603.34 lbs) on average
- Hooded seal weighting 278.95 kilos (614.98 lbs) on average
- Kiang weighting 280.57 kilos (618.55 lbs) on average
- Baird’s tapir weighting 292.39 kilos (644.61 lbs) on average
- Muskox weighting 312.67 kilos (689.32 lbs) on average
Animals as big as a Malayan tapir
Those animals grow as big as a Malayan tapir:
- Bearded seal with 2.3 meter (7′ 7″)
- Common eland with 2.66 meter (8′ 9″)
- Mediterranean monk seal with 2.6 meter (8′ 7″)
- Mountain nyala with 2.25 meter (7′ 5″)
- California sea lion with 2.02 meter (6′ 8″)
- Okapi with 2 meter (6′ 7″)
- Atlantic white-sided dolphin with 2.29 meter (7′ 6″)
- Mountain zebra with 2.35 meter (7′ 9″)
- Black wildebeest with 1.82 meter (6′ 0″)
- Lion with 1.84 meter (6′ 1″)