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The latest resident of the Denver Zoo has ties to Malaysia, Ireland and now Colorado.
And he’s only 2 years old.
Benny now makes his home in the zoo’s pachyderm building.
The 675-pound Malayan tapir is doing well and adjusting to life in Denver, zookeepers say.
Benny — whose proper name is Bengkulu, after a province in Indonesia — will at some point be introduced to Maggie, a female tapir already in residence at the zoo.
Malayan tapirs are the largest of the four tapir species, according to a release from the Denver Zoo. In the wild, they can be found in the rain forests of the Indochinese peninsula.
Benny came to Denver from the Belfast Zoo in Northern Ireland.
