The Tapir Scientist: Saving South America's Largest Mammal

Sy Montgomery and Nic Bishop

The Tapir Scientist: Saving South America's Largest Mammal The lowland tapir is an animal that looks like a hippopotamus with a short elephant trunk.It is an important but not-well-understood part of the ecosystem of Brazil's Pantanal, the world's largest tropical wetlands. In this book, a group of scientists in the field use high-tech, motion-activated cameras and radio collars and low-tech tranquilizer guns and traps to learn more about the elusive and unusual tapir.

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