They cover large distances in their search for food, making frequent stops to eat. Regularly used paths are used in these foraging excursions, and several may lead to bodies of water. Each animal occupies a large territory which overlaps that of its neighbours. These paths and territories are marked with urine, which is sprayed on small bushes and plants. When moving, the Malayan tapir walks slowly with its head down, which probably allows it to pick up the scents of other tapirs.
Individuals also communicate with shrill whistles.
The Malayan tapir is a good climber, scaling steep slopes with relative ease, and when alarmed gallops off with surprising speed. . Tender leaves and shoots. Leopards, tigers, humans. . Habitat Dense tropical lowland rainforest in the Indochinese peninsula, Burma, and Thailand. Grzimek's Encyclopedia of Mammals .