Photos: by Courtesy of Charles Hose. 



THE TAPIR OF SUMATRA (Tapir indicus) 



It will be noticed that the young one (upper photograph) is striped and 

 spotted. These stripes disappear during the first year, giving place to a 

 well-defined black and white pellage when fully adult (lower photograph). 

 The young one, with its yellowish spots and stripes, is "like a patch of ground 

 flecked with sunlight"; the adult with its two colours is like a grey boulder. 

 Tapirs form a small family of hoofed mammals (Ungulates) related to rhino- 

 ceroses and horses. Their modern geographical distribution indicates great 

 restriction compared with that in bygone ages, for some of the species occur in 

 the Far East, the others in South and Central America. 



