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They Thought It Was Gone Forever—The South American Tapir Reappeared
This natural process benefits a wide range of flora and fauna, supporting biodiversity. In addition to aiding plant growth, tapirs also create trails through dense vegetation, indirectly ...
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Endangered tapir born in Tacoma
The white striped and speckled Malayan tapir calf was named Ume, the Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium in Tacoma wrote in a Feb. 11 Facebook post. In Japanese, Ume means plum blossom and apricot ...
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The Story of an Endangered Symbiosis in a Land Between the Volcanoes of Costa Ricas
Wherever tapirs live, there lives the hope of tropical forests. This hope comes in the form of a precious package filled with ...
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Adorable endangered Malayan tapir calf born at Washington zoo
An endangered and rare Malayan tapir calf was born this weekend at Washington’s Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium. Only the second tapir birth there in more than a hundred years, the unnamed ...
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Creature that looks like ‘walking watermelon’ born at WA zoo. See the ‘little miracle’
The white striped and speckled Malayan tapir calf was born Feb. 2 at Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium in Tacoma, the zoo said in a news release. It’s the second time a tapir has been born at the ...