{"id":317201,"date":"2026-02-03T00:30:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T00:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/317201\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T00:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T00:30:10","slug":"another-tapir-lost-300kg-animal-struck-and-killed-while-crossing-terengganu-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/317201\/","title":{"rendered":"Another tapir lost: 300kg animal struck and killed while crossing Terengganu road"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>DUNGUN, Feb 1 \u2014 A male tapir died after being hit by a car at Kilometre 8, Jalan Bandar Al-Mukhtafi Billah Shah-Paka near Kampung Santong here, last night.<\/p>\n<p>Terengganu Wildlife and National Parks Department (Perhilitan) director Loo Kean Seong said the 300-kilogramme (kg) tapir was hit while crossing the road to the nearby forest at 10pm.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn examination found signs of injury on the tapir\u2019s head and body,\u201d he said when contacted by Bernama today.<\/p>\n<p>He said two Perhilitan personnel had taken the tapir\u2019s carcass for disposal.<\/p>\n<p>It is understood that the tapir was hit by a Volkswagen car driven by a 49-year-old teacher.<\/p>\n<p>On January 24, a 200-kilogramme tapir was hit by a motorcycle at Kilometre 320.5 of the East Coast Highway 2 (LPT2) after exiting Kerteh, Kemaman, at 1am. \u00a0The 19-year-old motorcyclist also died at the scene. \u2014 Bernama<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DUNGUN, Feb 1 \u2014 A male tapir died after being hit by a car at Kilometre 8, Jalan&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":317202,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[273],"tags":[153865,153869,18,19,17,153868,133,153866,153867,42770,461],"class_list":["post-317201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-dungun","tag-east-coast-highway-2","tag-eire","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-loo-kean-seong","tag-science","tag-tapir","tag-terengganu-wildlife-and-national-parks-department","tag-volkswagen","tag-wildlife"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116003879199469192","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}