Patrícia Medici is a world-leading expert in Brazil’s lowland tapirs, large herbivores whose seed dispersal function is fundamental to rainforest ecosystems, including the Amazon. “Tapirs move very ...

Brazilian researchers demonstrate in field experiments that these large mammals help keep a balance between areas with different levels of productivity in biomes like the Atlantic Rainforest, and ...

I received the following email from my grandson Parker, who was on a field trip in Central America: “While walking a trail in Belize after dark, a member of our group spotted a faint eyeshine from ...

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 tiny burrowing frog that lives underground in the Amazon, known to local people as the 'tapir frog' because its long nose, has been given an official scientific description. The people of Peru's ...

Zoo Miami has announced the birth of a Malayan tapir, an endangered species recognizable by its pig-like appearance and elephant-like snout. According to the zoo, the calf was born on September 16 (he ...

He arrived right before Christmas and is getting more and more used to his own surroundings. There are not a lot of Malayan Tapirs in zoos. Breeding programs have been pretty successful but some "new ...

I received the following email from my grandson Parker who was on a field trip in Central America: “While walking a trail in Belize after dark, a member of our group spotted a faint eyeshine from ...

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 ...