The tapir (Tapirus bairdii) is the largest mammal that inhabits the Neotropical forests. In Honduras this species is found mostly in the eastern portion of the country and in some isolated cloud forests patches elsewhere. One of these areas is the Sierra de Agalta National Park (SANP), which encompasses 51,792 hectares of broadleaf and pine forests. A considerable number of villages can also be found in the buffer zone of this park, where people live mostly from subsistence agriculture and extensive cattle grazing. The attack occurred the second week of January 2006, in the neighborhood of the village of Vallecito de Río Tinto, Olancho, located in the buffer zone of the SANP. The animal that perpetrated the attack was a juvenile male tapir that weighed approximately 170 pounds (adult Baird’s tapirs can weigh >250 pounds).
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