In total, samples were obtained from 47
tapirs (18 adult females, one sub-adult female, one juvenile female, 19 adult males, three sub-adult males and five juvenile males).
To Paulo Rogerio Mangini who gave us his total support in the field making possible the
tapir captures.
Actualmente, la distribucion del
tapir centroamericano esta restringida, se ubica principalmente en areas conservadas y poco accesibles a la actividad humana (Matola et al.
Tapirs, which hail from South America, are the friendliest of mammals.
El objetivo de la investigacion consistio en caracterizar la actividad de lisozima en leche de
tapir y analizar comparativamente el comportamiento frente a diferentes temperaturas de la lisozima presente en la leche de tres especies de perisodactilos: Tapirus terrestris, Equus caballus y Equus asinus.
Introducing zoo-bred animals to the wild is only one of the strategies being employed by Proyecto
Tapir participants, which include RAAS regional authorities, personnel from the Ministerio del Ambiente y los Recursos Naturales (MARENA), and researchers from Michigan State University (MSU) in the US.
A zoo spokesman could not confirm if mum Patricia Frost had signed any health and safety form before going into the
tapir enclosure.
Numbers of
tapir, which are related to rhino and horses, have plummeted by 50 per cent in the past 36 years.
On 24 August, the Economist reported how Chariot's decision, together with farm-out partners, Petrobras and BP, to go ahead with the drilling of the Kabeljou well in late July was paying dividends despite the initial scepticism from investors following the setback on the
Tapir South well.
PATTERNS OF MINERAL LICK VISITATION BY LOWLAND
TAPIR (Tapirus terrestris) AND LOWLAND PACA (Cuniculus paca) IN A WESTERN AMAZONIAN RAINFOREST IN ECUADOR