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Endangered Baird's Tapir Calf, as Yet Unnamed, Born at San Diego Zoo
The San Diego Zoo has announced that female Baird’s tapir Luna gave birth to a female calf in early June — and the baby needs a name. The prehensile-nosed calf and her mother can now be seen ...
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South America’s Biggest Mammal Reappears After 100 Years
The tapir, the biggest land mammal in South America, has been spotted in Brazil's Costa Verde region 100 years after its last ...
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In Colombia, a simple fencing fix offers a win-win for wildlife and ranchers
Similar farmer-tapir dynamics have played out in Costa Rica for a different reason. Baird’s tapir populations have increased outside of protected areas, prompting some people to switch their ...
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Opportunistic predation by leaf-cutting ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) on a wounded Baird’s tapir (Mammalia: Perissodactyla: Tapiridae) in Mexico
We report on the first case of attine workers, Atta cephalotes (L.) (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), foraging on the scar tissues of a living vertebrate, a wounded female Baird’s tapir, Tapirus bairdii ...