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Extremely rare animal believed to be extinct spotted in the wild for first time in over 100 years
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 ...
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Extremely rare animal once believed to be extinct in area caught on camera
Also known as the South American tapir, the maned tapir and the lowland tapir, the Brazilian tapir can be found in the rainforests of South America. The lowland tapir is just one of four species ...
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World's Large Herbivores Dwindling, Poaching a Major Threat (6 of 6) (IMAGE)
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 ...
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Lowland tapir (IMAGE)
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Face of the Forest
Vishnu Gopal (India) records the moment a lowland tapir steps cautiously out of the swampy Brazilian rainforest. Finding hoofprints on a forest track near his campsite, Vishnu waited nearby. An hour ...
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Extremely rare animal believed to be extinct spotted in the wild for first time in over 100 years
It was caught on tape-ir. After over a century of being considered regionally extinct, the South American tapir was spotted alive and well in Brazil in footage blowing up online. In January ...