Science news articles about 'tapirs'

The Malay tapir, the largest of the world’s four tapir species, remained largely invisible to science until recently.

... . Soulful eyes of a curious chimpanzee, a speedy jaguar and a rare tapir staring back at you ...

Zoo staff stepped in to save a baby tapir by giving it mouth-to-snout resuscitation.

... to help an endangered species known as a Baird's tapir co-exist with local farmers whose ...

... monitor rare and threatened wildlife such as jaguar, tapir, giant anteater and maned wolf in and around ...

... recorded the presence of large mammals such as Baird's tapir (Tapirus bairdii), listed on the IUCN Red ...

... presence of mammals such as the hippo-like Coryphodon, tapirs and brontotheres in the high Arctic was a "behavioral prerequisite ... migrations by mammals." Because the oldest known tapir fossils are from the Arctic, there is the possibility that some prehistoric mammals ...

... , including pronghorn, deer, llamas, peccaries, tapirs, horses, mastodons, mammoths and gomphotheres, a group ...

... bites, plus the occurrence of terrestrial animals such as tapirs and horses that must have washed out to sea, predation ...

HANOI, Vietnam, Aug. 14 (UPI) -- Several rare species in Vietnam including the white-handed gibbon and tapir face extinction because of a growing appetite for wild meat, experts say.

... 's Yasuni National Park, home to peccaries, tapirs, monkeys and myriad other wildlife species? A great ...

... , wild boar and deer, as well as many other species such as tapirs, macaques, porcupines and civets. Infrared-triggered ...

... chiapasensis, a leech from Chiapas that is typically hosted by tapir but also infests cows. Part of the research for this paper ...

... , large snakes, alligators, flying lemurs, tapirs, and hippo-like and rhino-like mammals ...

Mammalogists set camera traps and chase every lead in order to document rare sightings of elusive Amazonian mammals.