The Mountain Tapir is the most threatened of the four tapir species, classified as "Endangered" by the International Union for Conservation of Nature in 1996.  Some scientists predict that the species could be extinct as early as 2014. There may be only 2,500 individuals left in the wild today, making it all the more difficult for scientists to study them. There are also very few individuals found in zoos. Only a handful of breeding pairs of this species exists in captivity in the world — at the Los Angeles Zoo, the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo in Colorado Springs, and, as of 2006, the San Francisco Zoo.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain_Tapir
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain_Tapir#Vulnerability

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