A stray tapir weighing about 250 to 290kg was found on the fifth-floor car park of a hotel in Banda Hilir today before it was captured and relocated to Malacca Zoo.

State Department of Wildlife Protection and National Parks (Perhilitan) director Mohd Firdaus Mahmood said the process of capturing and transporting the animal by his department was conducted together with the Fire and Rescue Department over four hours.

"Perhilitan has been observing and trying to locate the tapir for the past two weeks, which is believed to have...