#0355 · 🦊 mammals
Baird's Tapir
🇳🇱 Midden-Amerikaanse Tapir ·Tapirus bairdii
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Paul Norwood · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Lorenzo D'Alessio · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © johnmeikle · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. Oaxaca, MX:© Gerobuam Hernandez · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 5. Panama:© liza-b · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. Petén, GT:© Cornelio Chablé · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. Alajuela, CR:© Mike Melton · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. Alajuela, CR:© Mike Melton · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. Alajuela, CR:© rhododendrites · CC BY-SA 4.0
- 10. Alajuela, CR:© Stella Tea · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Baird's tapir ( Tapirus bairdii ), also known as the Central American tapir , is a species of tapir native to Mexico, Central America and northwestern South America. It is one of four Latin American species of tapir.
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 4,054 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Theodore Nicholas Gill in 1865 (161 years ago).
- Listed as Endangered on the IUCN Red List.
fact sheet
- English
- Baird's Tapir
- Nederlands
- Midden-Amerikaanse Tapir
- scientific name
- Tapirus bairdii
- class
- Mammalia
- order
- Perissodactyla
- family
- Tapiridae
- IUCN Red List
- EN · endangered
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 4,054
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1865 by Theodore Nicholas Gill
IUCN in Dutch: bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Tapiridae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 43355, Wikidata Q215997, GBIF 2440897, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.