Beneath the viridescent understory of the Brazilian Amazon, ecologist Lucas Paolucci has been honing his skills for hunting tapir dung. In this region’s degraded rain forests, he sees the piglike ...

Recent research has revealed human contamination by pesticides in the Brazilian Cerrado, following a previous study that also found contamination in tapirs in the region. This research shows how ...

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 ...