Tapirs are a living fossil; they’be been around since the Eocene, having survived waves of extinction of other animals. They are South America’s largest native land mammal, with adults …

The Lowland tapir is found throughout a wide geographic range, from North-Central Colombia and east of the Andes and including most of tropical South America. They occur mostly in tropical …

The Tapir Specialist Group works to study and protect the four species of tapirs and their remaining habitat in Central and South America and Southeast Asia.

The following projects have been undertaken by Tapir Specialist Group field researchers and other experts, to better understand tapir biology and how to save them in the wild.

The mountain tapir feeds on leaves, twigs and fruits of a large number of plant species in Andean forests. The tapirs are important seed dispersers and a key component for the maintenance of …

For the FS, a photograph of ‘‘normal’’ feces from a free-ranging South American tapir was available by courtesy of P. Medici (Fig. 3). From the medical records kept at each zoo, the …

The Baird’s tapir is found in Oaxaca Province in Mexico through parts of Central America, including the western side of the Andean mountain range in Colombia (the Darien).

Only one species in Asia — Malayan tapir (Tapirus indicus), and four species in Central and South America — Baird’s Tapir (Tapirus bairdii), mountain tapir (Tapirus pinchaque), South …

We conserve biological diversity by stimulating, developing, and executing practical programs to study, save, restore, and manage the four species of tapir and their remaining habitats in …

Tapirs inhabit jungle and forest regions of Southern Mexico, South America, Central America, and Southeast Asia. There are four species of tapirs: the Baird's tapir, the lowland tapir, the …