Over 14,000 lowland tapirs (Tapirus terrestris), also known as Brazilian tapirs, roam an Amazonian landscape across Bolivia and Peru, according to new research by scientists with the Wildlife ...

Discover the elusive Kabomani tapir, a new tapir species that thrives in the Amazon rainforest and has intrigued scientists for years. Historically, scientists assumed the indigenous hunters were ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Tapirs are notoriously hard to find and directly observe in the wild. Because of this, little is known about how species behave in their natural ...

Imagine walking through the Amazon and realizing the animals that make it magical might not be there for your kids to see.

A new species of tapir living in the Amazon Region—the anta-pretinha, or small black tapir, as described in the December 2013 issue of the Journal of Mammalogy—has been hailed by many as the most ...

A new species of tapir was discovered in the Amazon rainforest that may be one of the biggest animals on the South American continent. Cozzuol et al Until recently, only indigenous tribes in Brazil ...

Somewhere within the American Museum of Natural History in New York City lies the partial skull and skin of a young adult male tapir, item number 36661, collected by former president Theodore ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The lowland tapir Tapirus terrestris is the largest herbivore in the Neo tropics and feeds on a large quantity of fruits, often ingesting the ...

The Amazon Rainforest is home to some of the most exotic and beautiful animal life on the planet. Recently, scientists have discovered another rainforest resident deep within Brazil’s palm-dense Juruá ...

A bizarre new species of frog with a 'tapir-like' nose for burrowing underground has been discovered in the Amazon rainforest thanks to its 'beeping' calls. The new species, found at the lower ...

The people of Peru’s Comunidad Nativa Tres Esquinas have long known about a tiny, burrowing frog with a long snout; one local name for it is rana danta, “tapir frog” for its resemblance to the ...