#Asiatic tapir

[rabbitcruiser]

World Tapir Day

There’s an odd little creature that’s a native of Central and South America, and can even be found in SE Asia. What kind of odd critter? Well, it looks a bit like a pig, with it’s general build and toes with hooves, but it also looks a bit, just a little, like an elephant with its long snout! What are we talking about? The Tapir! This wonderful animal is currently on the watch-list as it has been over-hunted for its meat and hides. World Tapir Day raises awareness about these endangered animals and helps to protect them for future generations.

History of World Tapir Day

World Tapir Day was established with the intent of protecting all the members of this endangered species from extinction, that they might still be here for our children. The areas they inhabit are either forest or jungle, which makes them particularly vulnerable to deforestation, especially as large herbivores. But the dangers of their extinction goes even further than just the loss of another unique species, the loss of the Tapir could in fact endanger the entire remaining forests. As part of their natural habits, they also serve to disperse seeds throughout the jungle, and are one of the oldest species found in these areas.

Many people are unaware of the Tapir as a species, meaning they are losing a special part of the world without ever knowing they exist. So unknown are these animals that those who visit Zoos that frequently mistake them for members of another species. This is even a problem in those areas where they live natively, so World Tapir Day was established to help raise world awareness of this species.

How to celebrate World Tapir Day

Celebrating World Tapir Day can be as simple as picking up a book or searching the internet for information on the species and familiarizing yourself with the role it plays in its home environment. If you feel like taking another step in celebrating World Tapir Day, then you can go out and help to raise awareness by organizing events at your local school or in your community.

You can also look into your local community zoo and determine whether or not they have a Tapir exhibit, and if they do you can help to raise awareness of their presence their and encourage people to visit the zoo and learn more about them! You can also send money to organizations that work to protect the jungles that the Tapirs call home.

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Zoo is done, with two new animals added! Went ahead and made a map if anyone is interested! I'll list the animals for each number in a thread below! If anyone plays Planet Zoo I think I'm gonna upload it to the workshop! You'll need all the DLC and modded animals to open it tho!

Went ahead and listed whether the animals came from the basic game, a certain DLC, or if it is a mod! If you're interested all the mods are from the Planet Zoo page on Nexus Mods!

1. Babirusa (Southeast Asia), 2. Binturong (Southeast Asia), 3. Clouded Leopard (Southeast Asia), 4. Timber Wolf (Base Game), 5. Siberian Tiger (Base Game), 6. Red Panda (Base Game), 7. Snow Leopard (Base Game), 8. Japanese Macaque (Base Game), 9. Giant Panda (Base Game), 10. Bornean Orangutan (Base Game), 11. Bengal Tiger (Base Game), 12. Greater Flamingo (Base Game), 13. Eurasian Lynx (Mod), 14. Marco Polo Sheep (Mod), 15. Reindeer (Arctic), 16. Indian Peafowl Walkthrough (Base Game), 17. Himalayan Brown Bear (Base Game), 18. Dhole (Southeast Asia), 19. Chinese Pangolin (Base Game), 20. Formosan Black Bear (Base Game), 21. Amur Leopard (Mod), 22. Dromedary Camel (Mod), 23. Bactrian Camel (Base Game), 24. Asian Wild Water Buffalo (Mod), 25. Gharial, 26. Gaur (Mod), 27. Harbor Seal (Mod), 28. Indian Elephant (Base Game), 29. Malaysian Tapir (Southeast Asia), 30. Indian Rhinoceros (Base Game), 31. Proboscis Monkey (Southeast Asia), 32. Komodo Dragon (Deluxe Pack), 33. Persian Onager (Mod), 34. Prezwalski's Horse (Mod), 35. Saltwater Crocodile (Base Game), 36. Sun Bear (Southeast Asia), 37. Lesser Flamingo Walkthrough (Mod), 38. Saola (Mod), 39. Asiatic Lion (Mod), 40. Pallas' Cat (Mod), 41. Fennec Fox (Mod), Blue and Green Dots: Giant Malaysian Leaf Insect (Southeast Asia), Yellow Dot: Giant Forest Scorpion (Base Game).

[amazing-thailand]

Kui Buri National Park, Prachuab Khiri Khan - A bit south of Kaeng Krachan is Kui Buri National Park known for being the home of many near-extinct wildlife - gaurs, elephants, white-handed gibbon, leopard, Malayan tapir, and Asiatic wild dog. Apart from the guided wildlife watching, visitors can perhaps take parts in reforestation activities such as making salt licks for animals, building stream-slowing dams, and planting wild grasses.

[y4s2-20192020]

4095. 

The 1st scenic road trip over wildlife crossing corridor.

Route 4095 is an unpaved road in Nakhon Si Thammarat that might seems like a normal road, but the problematic part is its location where it cuts through the middle of the forest, leaving the unimaginable effect on the existing ecosystem.

It locates in the middle of 3 protected areas in Southern Thailand, including Tai Rom Yen, Khao Nan, and Si Kiad national parks in the northern Khao Luang Forest complex. The route is the shortcut access to Krung Ching valley from western and northern areas.

Look closely into the land use along the road, it’s noticeable that the road is the main access to this strip valley between the mountains, giving the access for people to illegally intrude the protected forest with the program of para rubber farming and other mono crop culture. This results in the endangered edges of the forest with high possibility to be intruded further by human activities.

To understand more about the impact of road creation in any area, this is the phases that explains its effect since the beginning where the final goal is urbanisation.

The first step is an ‘Incision State’, where the road construction is taking place in the forest. The area is cleared out by cutting down trees and level the ground. The construction leaves more light into the space, bringing noise and pollution that chase away wildlife. 

Then the process of ‘dissection’ and ‘Dissipation’ is where the road fully cuts through the forest giving access for vehicles that possibly bring in alien species as well as more humans. The area of the forest’s been shrinking and fragmented with human activities and production of mono crop culture.

Once there’s the access, more people are able to get in, more land are owned and more changes in the form of a city, where on the other hand, the forest further shrinks and finally dismissed in the area. Leaving the result of concrete jungle with a lot of climatic problem from increased runoff water and contamination from head water

Especially at this specific location of 4095 route, if there's no attention paid to its existing condition and management. It’s possible that this scenario will happen, considering the current state of the hyper urbanisation. When human activities consume more areas that it expands to the point where they are fully connected, the forest, on the other hand, becomes fully disconnected in fragmentation.

Therefore, it is an urgent need to design and manage the route and the area alongside. The process starts with the understanding of the existing landscape structure by investigating the sectional detail in these 6 selected sections. The selection is made based on the different result of the analysis in topographic slope, land use, and forest to human area ratio. 

This map also shows that the area occupies main head water resources that flows northwards and southwards into Krung Ching.

1st section shows the relatively flat ground nearby the urban area, occupied almost fully by para rubber farming with constructed water pond for the activity usage.

2nd section shows more of the uphill area shows the area that’s still nominated by the forest but you can see that there is already the sub street access to the higher hill with para rubber farming.

3rd section starts to show the fragmented state of the forest. Even para rubber farm is small in size it still creates the fraction in the forest.

4th section is the other way round where half of the area (1 km) is intruded and the other half is not, but the forest is still well connected. 

5th section shows minority area of the forest those endangered by the shrinkage and attrition process, where they cannot function as the forest any more. 

(where function means behaving as wildlife habitat, runoff decelerator, absorber, and purifier)

6th another end of the route with almost full occupied area of mono crop farming.

The comparison of different sections showing different capacity of run off deceleration, absorption, and purification, in relationship to the slope percentage. And also the relative percentage of the forest versus human intrusion along the 2 km axis. 

The primary goal of this route design is the conservation in the form of a scenic recreational road.

the 1st half of the project will deal with the habitat value where the main concern is wildlife habitats. In order to maintain or even increase the biodiversity and to connect the fragmented forest islands. The other half is the cultural value that deals more to the understanding of relationship between human and environment through aesthetic and activity design. 

It’s important to reconnect wildlife habitats to conserve their population number. The priority species taken in consideration are elephants, tapirs, and serows. Elephant is the specie that is an umbrella species where they open up the route in the forest for other species and creating the network of animal paths in the ecosystem. The other 2 species, tapir and serow are the endangered species and at risk of being extinct. They are found in the area of Khao Nan and Si Keed national parks, where both of them are the important species that help increase the seeding process through their scat, hence help recovering and growing the forest naturally. 

The circles are home ranges of each specie, starting from the smallest of a serow at 10 squared km, then tapir with 34 squared km , and the largest home range of an elephant at 310  squared km

Weighted overlay map to find out the most suitable crossing spot for wildlife

Serows prefer to stay and dwell alone in the steepest part of the forest. They have the ability to climb on rocky cliff and able to not consuming water for a week as they can survive by licking the water from the rock gap. Their habitat normally located in the rocky steep part of the mountain and the cave. They feed on grass and sapling of plants.

The darkest green is the most suitable area for serows weighted from 3 elements. 1st is the steep slope, 2nd is the grassland area as food source, calculated from the N-S axis with more potential to be a grassland from shallow soil from wind erosion. 3rd is the elevation that higher than 200m above sea level.

Second specie is Tapir. They normally lives alone and feed at night. They prefer to stay nearby and dwell in the water as they can walk under water and swim. However, the specie is very sensitive to threads and disturbance,hence prefer to stay in the interior habitat zone of the forest. They feed on grass and saplings. 

The calculated map comes from the overlay of the stream network, grassland, and the interior habitat in the forest. Their home range places closed to the centre of the forest interior show in the circles. 

Moving on to the elephants. Their preferable habitat includes 40% of grassland and 60% of dense evergreen forest. They normally stay in s female group of about 6, hence requiring large amount of water per day. Resulting in the very large home range for food and water source.

From overlay the food source of grassland, water source, and less steep slope on this map. The large area of green is shown in the map as the elephant rarely affected by any disturbance because of its gigantic size, they walk wherever the food is. 

By overlay all 3 maps of 3 species, this is the result path to creating the crossing corridor for multi-species. There are 2 critical points more suitable for tapir with the stream line located in the northern spot and the other spot in the south is more suitable for serows.

Zooming into the critical spots, the existing land use in the red part is para rubber farming area and the light brown part is mixed orchard fields.

The overall project will have 2 main zones, the animal crossing area that is the priority and the human and vehicle area.

To be more accurate at the crossing design, it’s important to identify the most suitable spot for animal to cross By zoom in even more to the spot and looking at the current state of the area from google earth, the mono crop land spreads widely in the area. So to avoid also local residences effect, the crossing will be at the circle here, with the need to reprogram the existing para rubber farm to the extra food source for animals such as grass land or constructed salt lick.

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Moving on finally to the design and modification of the route, the main 3 parts of the design include the polluted runoff from the street into water, the mono crop culture of the local, and the most importantly crossing corridor for wildlife.

To a better understanding of the site in spatial scale, I cut 7 different sections along the route to explain the existing condition. The main route contain main 3 different zones, the more affected area near urban area, the normal pass away route, and the sensitive area near the crossing.

1st is the modification of the roadside. The stream line actually runs alongside the road, therefore can easily be contaminated from what the cars bring and also the insecticide from mono crop. There need to be the filtration process by planting in plants that have the ability to filter chemicals along the road and along the side of the stream, including Gotu Kola and Reed grass. There is also local herb and plant that prefer to grow in the wetland, including Asiatic pennywort and Paco fern. These are the extra food source and product for the local in this community.

Next is the change in land-use and program of mono crop farming of the local. It will be restricted from any use of chemical and insecticide, therefore the product will be increased in value as the organic product from Krung Ching. The mono crop will be change to mixed type of farming with more local plants such as herbs, fruits, and flowers, to maintain and fix the soil quality and giving dimensions to the view. Open lands in waiting for new season of plant or grass land will be more varied with the vertical local plants such as palm tree or coconut tree also to give dimension and link to other scene of the roadside.

These are the driving view before and after the land use change

Welcome to 4095. 

Let’s take a look at the visitor handbook to know what we need to prepare. 

Firstly, the available period for visitors with cars and vehicles are only from February to October as November till January will be affected by Northeast monsoon as the location of Nakhon Si Thammarat locates on the eastern part of the mountain range. The unpaved road will be more dangerous in the pouring rain period. However you can still visit on foot as trail corridor during the gap period. The car type that is allowed is the high raised four wheel car due to the unpaved surface that will slow down the speed of vehicle as well as has lower contamination effects comparing to the long term asphalt pavement. You can prepare the sleeping gear for night time wildlife watching on the bridge as our highlight activity and visit the local organic market for local herbs, fruites, and vegetable. Speed limit also shows above.

Our highlight spot 4095 bridge

Traditionally wildlife crossing will change the pathway of the animals to either overpass or underpass, but in this case I choose to change the path of men. 

The bridge is raised for cars to drive over to conserve the existing ground for animals and the forest to grow back and merge the fragmented area back together. The cars will camouflage by the roadside trees, bushes, and shaped hills on the bridge. Eliminating the noise and visual pollution experienced by animals.

In the preparation task, there is the fencing line to lead the animal to the crossing by locate the fence along the edge of the existing forest.

The suspension method of bridge construction is chosen in order to create a long span of 100 m underneath for animal crossing, with also efficient height of more than 10 m

Taking the infrastructure in advantage to bond the visitor and the forest closer by providing the additional programs of wildlife watching in the scaffolding tower on the bridge. There are 8 parking spots, 4 on each side, enough for the overnight camping for 8 groups of visitor to control number of people and avoid the chaotic situation of noise and accident.

Activities that you can do

1. Enjoy the view from the bridge during the day

2. Camping an enjoy the sunset moment in the West camping spot on the bridge

3. Night wildlife watching in the watching tower and morning activities at the East wing

and.. DON’T BE LOUD!!

If you did not plan to stay over night... No worries!!

We have another stop by destination in the local bridge where there is the local plant hub and the local stall for selling organic product of 4095 community, you can also spend time having meals or enjoying the view on top of the tower there!

and please drive slowly at maximum 40 km/h around here

have a nice trip.

4095.

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[rofics]

Hi, first wanted to say I love your Soft Hybrid series on Ao3. These are the first 2 I've read of yours and am looking forward to diving deeper. Wondering if you could continue the Soft Hybrid series with Tiger Tae (or diff predator) trying to control his instincts around Jin (pls not a pig, but something mouthwatering). Since Tae is young and can have trouble concentrating, he occasionally nibbles a little too much on Jin. I know it sounds like an "Eat Jin" ep. Thanks!

I have put your request on the request list which can be seen here!

Requests

For Seokjin’s hybrid race we have a few ways we could go, depending on how rare you wanna go, my ideas would be around Deer-hybrid, elephant-calf-hybrid, Tapir-hybrid or maybe asiatic wilddog! Depend on what you want!

Also do you want smut with it? Also would you be against making Taehyung a Liger instead? So he was mixed tiger and Lion?

- Prussia

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The Cotswold Wildlife Park celebrates its half-century

There’s an additional reason to visit the ever-popular Cotswolds this year: The Cotswold Wildlife Park & Gardens is celebrating its 50th anniversary

On 27th March 1970, a bright and sunny day, the Cotswold Wildlife Park opened to the public for the first time. In a superb parkland setting and with a listed Victorian Manor House as a backdrop, it soon became a popular local attraction.

A low-key operation, in the park’s early days there were 12 mammal species (including wallabies, tapirs and llamas), 62 bird species and 20 species of reptiles and amphibians.

Rana at Cotswold Wildlife Park

The Park developed steadily, regularly acquiring new species. A reptile house was added in 1971, rhinos and zebras arrived in 1972 and the park’s narrow-gauge railway – still a firm favourite with visitors – opened in 1975. The following year, one of the UK’s first insect and butterfly houses opened at the park.

An Anaconda’s arrival in 1971. It measured 19 foot

In the 1980s leopards and tigers arrived, joined by Asiatic Lions in the 1990s. Since 2000, the gardens have been developed to such an extent that the sight now attracts horticulturalists as well as animal-lovers: the gardens are a vibrant burst of colour in the spring and summer.

Sifakas, like all lemurs, are naturally found only on the island of Madagascar

Highlights of the park today include the rhinos – new calf Stella, the park’s sixth rhino birth, was born in September 2019 – as well as up-close encounters with giraffes. There’s also a huge variety of birds and one of the UK’s largest reptile collections. A range of daily activities includes penguin-feeding in the Walled Garden and lemur-feeding in the spectacular ‘Madagascar’ walk-through.

Here’s to the next 50 years!

www.cotswoldwildlifepark.co.uk

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Visit to Night Safari, Singapore

Singapore Night Safari is one of most visited tourist attraction place situated next to the Singapore Zoo. Being one of the first Night Safari in the world, this place attracts tourists from all over the world and has visitors of over 1million every year. This is an experience where you would be with some of the worlds nocturnal animals. With over 59 exhibits and 1000+ animals, this place is segregated into geographical regions which can be accessed by 4 walking trails and a guided tram tour.

Night Safari is open from 19:30 – 00:00 every day and can be accessed by Train, Bus or Cab.

Take MRT to Ang Mo Kio station and alight SBS 138 bus and you need to walk towards the Safari.

You can also book Shuttle Bus towards Safari where the bus has a specific boarding point, or if you want to reach quickly you can book a cab. Ticket price starts 49SGD and it is advisable to book the tickets online so as to skip the waiting queue at the counter.

One of the first things that you notice once you enter Night Safari is that it is dotted with many restaurants and cafes where you can have dinner or grab a light snack. It is better to have dinner and enter as it requires a lot of walking and exploration. There are restaurants such as Jungle Rotisserie, Ulu Ulu Safari Restaurant, Safari Sizzles, Zebra Cafe, Ben & Jerry and Mandai mart where you can taste various cuisines such as Indian, Italian, Continental and Asian. If you have a mood to eat gelato then there is a cafe named Casa Italia where they serve gelato. Be it from full course meal to fast food, they serve here at these restaurants near the entrance of Safari.

Being one of Nocturnal Place, important notice is that people should not use Flash Photography as the lights are adjusted to mimic Moon Light so that it wont affect Natural Habitat of these animals. There is a fire show at the entrance called Thrumbuakar where you can witness good pyrotechnic shows while you enter or when you exit. There is also another show called Creatures of the Night which is one of the most popular shows and seats would be filled up in no time hence it is advisable to arrive 30 minutes prior to start. This show focus on how Nocturnal Animals co-exist in wild and a glimpse of their typical cycle of the day.

MTTIPs: Choose Tram ride first so as to know the regions of the park and animals as this would be a guided tour, later you can choose to walk.

There will be a guided tram tour inside the safari where the tour guide will explain about these Nocturnal Species their habitat, diet and breeding. The ride will be of 40 minutes and will cover all 6 regions of the park as some regions are not permitted to be walked, it is better to use Tram and cover these regions. The regions include Himalayan Foothills, Indian Subcontinent, Equatorial Africa, Asian Riverine Forest, Nepalese River Valley and Burmese Hillside. Here you can notice animals such as Malayan Tigers, Asiatic Elephants, Hyenas, Lions and Tapirs.

Once you finish the Tram ride you can explore 4 walking trails such as

A) Wallaby Trail: Here you can notice small animals called Wallaby where they would be roaming around you, there is also an inland cave where you can notice other nocturnal animals adapted to cave environment. East Lodge Trail: With its glass enclosures this trail has many Asian and African animals which can be viewed from a near distance. This place has animals like Malayan Tiger, Hyenas and Elephants. Leopard Trail: As the name suggests this is a closed space with glass for viewing has some of best nocturnal hunters, The Leopards. Here you can notice these majestic creatures hunting in the dark. Fishing Cat Trail: Here you can notice fishing cat catching fish for its dinner.

Whilst walking you can notice other small nocturnal creatures like critters, scorpions etc so keep attentive while taking a stroll across walking trails.

Once you are contented noticing these creatures and their behaviour during night time there is a souvenir shop where you can pick your favourite gift item or a memoir so that the visit to Night Safari will be in your memory for a long time.

You can also experience Fire Show during exit if you had missed watching during entering. This show will be presented to you every day except Wednesday with its timing being 19:00,20:00 and 21:00. If there is a cloudy sky then there is no chance to catch a glimpse of this show.

After you exit you can take a shuttle to drop to your point or book a cab on your way home/hotel.

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[rabbitcruiser]

World Tapir Day

There’s an odd little creature that’s a native of Central and South America, and can even be found in SE Asia. What kind of odd critter? Well, it looks a bit like a pig, with it’s general build and toes with hooves, but it also looks a bit, just a little, like an elephant with its long snout! What are we talking about? The Tapir! This wonderful animal is currently on the watch-list as it has been over-hunted for its meat and hides. World Tapir Day raises awareness about these endangered animals and helps to protect them for future generations.

History of World Tapir Day

World Tapir Day was established with the intent of protecting all the members of this endangered species from extinction, that they might still be here for our children. The areas they inhabit are either forest or jungle, which makes them particularly vulnerable to deforestation, especially as large herbivores. But the dangers of their extinction goes even further than just the loss of another unique species, the loss of the Tapir could in fact endanger the entire remaining forests. As part of their natural habits, they also serve to disperse seeds throughout the jungle, and are one of the oldest species found in these areas.

Many people are unaware of the Tapir as a species, meaning they are losing a special part of the world without ever knowing they exist. So unknown are these animals that those who visit Zoos that frequently mistake them for members of another species. This is even a problem in those areas where they live natively, so World Tapir Day was established to help raise world awareness of this species.

How to celebrate World Tapir Day

Celebrating World Tapir Day can be as simple as picking up a book or searching the internet for information on the species and familiarizing yourself with the role it plays in its home environment. If you feel like taking another step in celebrating World Tapir Day, then you can go out and help to raise awareness by organizing events at your local school or in your community.

You can also look into your local community zoo and determine whether or not they have a Tapir exhibit, and if they do you can help to raise awareness of their presence their and encourage people to visit the zoo and learn more about them! You can also send money to organizations that work to protect the jungles that the Tapirs call home.

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