Tapirus bairdii
Drawn from open occurrence records in and around Tortuguero, aggregated onto a 25 km grid. A cell is matched by its centre, which can sit up to 16 km outside the boundary, so this covers the surrounding country too.
Occurrence records measure where people looked and found something, which is not the same as where the animal is. This is a relative likelihood, not a probability.
A grid cell is a square of the map, not a sighting: 1 square of 25 km carry records for Baird's Tapir in and around Tortuguero, and the 1 records behind them were collected by other people and published openly. Nothing here counts animals, and a place with more records is not always a place with more animals.
Baird's tapir is Central America's biggest land mammal and one of its best-kept secrets: up to 300 kilograms of shy, prehensile-nosed herbivore that looks like evolution split the difference between a horse and an anteater and then apologized to neither. Fewer than 6,000 are thought to survive, and Costa Rica's protected forests, Corcovado above all, are among the most reliable places on Earth to meet one. Tapirs are the forest's gardeners: they swallow fruit whole and deposit the seeds kilometers away, planting tomorrow's canopy as they walk. They swim well, nap in wallows, and follow habitual trails so faithfully that a muddy tapir highway is often your first evidence one lives nearby.
Never use flash or approach a tapir with a calf; startled tapirs bolt blind through anything, including you.