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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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Rangers hear loud noise in dark forest — then rare mammal appears, Thailand video shows
They shined a flashlight toward the noise and saw a Malayan tapir foraging for food. The Malayan tapir seen at Si Phang Nga National Park. Screengrab from Facebook video shared by Si Phang Nga ...
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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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‘Fuzzy watermelon’-looking endangered baby animal named after another fruit, WA zoo says
A Malayan tapir calf was born at the Tacoma zoo on Feb. 2. Katie G. Cotterill Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium A rare and endangered baby animal that looks like a “fuzzy watermelon” has a new ...