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Growing up to 700 pounds, the South American tapir, or lowland tapir, is a vital member of rainforest ecosystems. These cartoonish critters become known as “forest gardeners” due to their ...

The threatened lowland tapir. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the May 1, 2015, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by W.J. Ripple at Oregon State University in ...

Revealing the personality of an individual or an intimate group of animals in a thought-provoking or memorable way. Vishnu Gopal (India) records the moment a lowland tapir steps cautiously out of the ...