tapir
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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
It has since expanded to become a wildlife park featuring wallabies, capybara, tapir and lemur and many other species.
From BBC • Dec. 24, 2021
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
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