Tapirs might be one of the largest land mammals in South America clocking in at an impressive 300 kilograms (661 pounds), but they have been noticeably absent from a region in Brazil for over 100 ...

“The forest is our university.” As members of the Indigenous Inga community of Musuiuiai, the guardians are tracking the lowland tapir (Tapirus terrestris), a sacred species in their cultur ...

Revealing the personality of an individual or an intimate group of animals in a thought-provoking or memorable way. Vishnu Gopal (India) records the moment a lowland tapir steps cautiously out of the ...

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.