tapir

You won’t see deer, tapir, peccaries, monkeys or chicken-like curassows anywhere within trekking distance of habitation; they’ve all been eaten.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 29, 2026

The study offers insights into the impact of domestic dogs on wildlife, particularly on species of conservation concern such as the mountain tapir.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 17, 2024

A rare Malayan tapir, a species which is related to both the horse and the rhinoceros, has been born at Chester Zoo.

From BBC ● Dec. 9, 2022

Other BRI routes pose a risk to such iconic animals as the large-antlered muntjac, the Malayan tapir, the white-handed gibbon, the Sumatra serow, and the critically endangered Edwards’s pheasant.

From Science Magazine ● Nov. 3, 2021

The Brazil nuts they had been counting on to sustain them were in short supply, and the piglike tapir, with its prehensile snout, was elusive.

From "Death on the River of Doubt" by Samantha Seiple

Additionally, no detection of juvenile mountain tapirs was obtained in the survey.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 17, 2024

The fossils date from early in the Eocene epoch, when Earth was home to ancient relatives of many modern mammals, including tapirs, hippopotamuses and humans.

From Scientific American ● Jan. 25, 2023

In the Amazon, tapirs with droopy trunks and watery eyes step "mincingly" along riverbanks, and blue morpho butterflies the size of postcards careen "reckless and beautiful" through their camp.

From Salon ● May 24, 2022

The wildlife in Corcovado National Park includes all four Costa Rican monkey species, sloths, jaguars, anteaters, tapirs, sea turtles and over 220 species of butterflies.

From Seattle Times ● May 16, 2022

When it was realized that ancient tapirs had existed simultaneously in South America and Southeast Asia a land bridge was drawn there, too.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson