After escaping a conservation center, this tapir needed a lot of help from humans when it got trapped in a pond. | National Geographic

LET'S LEARN MORE ABOUT MALAYAN TAPIR!! The Malayan Tapir (Tapirus indicus) is the largest of the five species of tapir and the only one native to Asia. In the past, Malayan tapirs could be found throughout tropical lowland rain forests of Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia,Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar. However, their population decreased over the years to the state whereby Tapirs are currently classified by the IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature) as an endangered species. Let