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Additionally, no detection of juvenile mountain tapirs was obtained in the survey.

From Science Daily • Apr. 17, 2024

Everywhere around him were tracks made by tapirs, peccaries, capybaras and lizards.

From New York Times • Jan. 16, 2024

The fossils date from early in the Eocene epoch, when Earth was home to ancient relatives of many modern mammals, including tapirs, hippopotamuses and humans.

From Scientific American • Jan. 25, 2023

The wildlife in Corcovado National Park includes all four Costa Rican monkey species, sloths, jaguars, anteaters, tapirs, sea turtles and over 220 species of butterflies.

From Seattle Times • May 16, 2022

When it was realized that ancient tapirs had existed simultaneously in South America and Southeast Asia a land bridge was drawn there, too.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson