Malayan tapirs perform a quiet but crucial task in their rainforest home: they are natural gardeners. As they eat fruits and wander, tapirs spread seeds across large distances, helping regenerate ...

Dung beetles skitter over tapir dung in the Amazon rainforest in this sped-up video. The insects will break off and bury small pieces of dung, including any seeds within, to snack on later.

A new study has found that lowland tapirs spend more time in degraded forests than in pristine Amazon rainforest. They also defecate and deposit three times more seeds in these degraded areas.

The Amazon Rainforest is home to some of the most exotic and beautiful animal life on ... tapirs, and caiman. Jaguars move at high speeds and can reach up to 80 miles per hour. ©Sergey Uryadnikov ...

Of the four species of tapirs, three are brown or grayish and live in mostly tropical rainforest habitats from Mexico through Central and South America and the Amazon Basin as far south as Paraguay.

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 ...

December 8, 2014 — Nicaragua is the second poorest country in the northern hemisphere and one of those most susceptible to the impacts of climate change, especially to extreme weather events like ...

Now details of the new, miniature tapir that lives in the Amazon rainforest are finally being brought to light. Tapirs are elusive, friendly and mostly nocturnal. Since 1865, there have been four ...

Frog with tapir-like nose found in Amazon rainforest, thanks to its 'beeping' call. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2022 / 02 / 220222135153.htm.