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The Malayan and Brazilian tapirs have gestation periods of 13 months' duration.

The Malayan tapir (Tapirus indicus), largest member of the family Tapiridae, is found in Sumatra and the Malay Peninsula, as far north as the Myanmar-Thailand border in latitude 18° N. It is found from sea level to high altitudes and occupies forests and thickets but may feed in more open areas.

Malayan tapirs live in dense forests in southern Myanmar, Malaysia, and Sumatra.

Four Frightened People (1934) was also atypical for DeMille a survival story in which four Americans (Claudette Colbert, Herbert Marshall, Mary Boland, and William Gargan) flee a plague outbreak on their ship only to try to survive the rigours of the Malayan jungle (filmed on location in Hawaii).

In Penang, which had been established to give Britain a foothold in the Dutch-held East Indies, Raffles shaped his career by an intensive exploration into the language, history, and culture of the Malayan peoples scattered over the islands of the archipelago.

The Batak are descendants of a powerful Proto-Malayan people who until 1825 lived in relative isolation in the highlands surrounding Lake Toba in Sumatra.

The Anglo-Malayan treaty concluded in 1957, which had committed Britain to the defense of the region, was terminated, and in its place a five-power defense arrangement involving Britain, Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia, and Singapore as equal partners came into force.

1796 Melaka, Malaysia 1854 Jiddah, Saudi Arabia Abdullah bin Abdul Kadir, also called Munshi Abdullah Bin Abdul Kadir (born 1796, Malacca, Malaya died 1854, Jiddah, Turkish Arabia [now in Saudi Arabia]), Malayan-born writer who, through his autobiographical and other works, played an important role as a progenitor of modern Malay literature.

But the influence of Indo-Malayan beliefs is noticeable, too, as when shamans are said to change into tigers or to achieve trance by dancing.

Nine genera with 15 species inhabit the rivers and lakes of Central and West Africa, and six species are distributed in freshwater environments of the Indo-Malayan Archipelago and Australia.