https://news.mongabay.com/2023...g-and-other-threats/


Intersting article and photos on hunting tapir in Suriname.

Thank you very sharing this Kathi.
I greatly appreciate your efforts to share info in this forum!

Tapirs can be very dangerous. There was a story about one biting the arm off a zoo keeper back in 1999.

I would make a correction to the article. Per the article:
"And even though hunting is regulated through the Hunting Law and the Hunting Decree, with a three-month open season and a bag limit of one, hunting is a problem outside the designated months too."

Is it the length of season, bag limit or poaching that's the problem? Based on other comments in the article, it sounds like poaching is really the issue.

I hunted tapirs in the rain forest/jungle of Bolivia long ago. Fascinating stuff and I saw a critter or two that to this day I have no idea what they were called.

I wanted my lady to gun one and when an opportunity came, she just could not see it. It took off and the guide was in instant despair. A lot of food there for the folks.

I tried the Texas heart shot with my 323 Hollis Magnum wild cat and the kill was instantaneous.

I was upset but she later got her own tapir that the guide's assistant brought out of the jungle hill darkness with loud piercing whistles.

All three of the tapirs we gunned on that trip were cut up and distributed around as there was no refrigeration so if it was not eaten fresh, it would have to be smoked and dried.

Agouti pacas were delicious. Brocket deer.. white lipped javelina .. Great experience.

Did you try any of the tapir?

I honestly cannot4 remember if we tried the tapir. I always insist on eating the critters that we hunt on these trips so probably did. I will look back on my journals to see.

Everything was green and lush in the jungle. All the game was in spectacular shape as might be expected. The cattle, however, seemed to be quite thin? I am not sure why? I thought that the constant rain every day might have leached the nutrients out of the plants but that is just a theory and probably a stupid one, at that.