0 an animal with hoofs, a long nose that bends, and a smooth coat, found in the forests of Southeast Asia and Central and South America
Since we found few seed fragments in faeces, it appears that tapirs do not mechanically destroy the larger seeds surveyed here.
In conclusion, tapirs provide a bulk seed dispersal service for very large, large and medium seeds, a form of dispersal unavailable from any other animal.
They do not disperse thousands of seeds long distances to single sites as do tapirs.
Each child immediately picked up the one unfamiliar toy animal (a tapir) and handed it over.
We also describe and analyse the temporal occurrence of the tapir generated seed rain.
Three hundred and fifty-six tapir faeces were examined.
This suggests that tapirs serve as an ecosystem level process, influencing the population and community dynamics of many tropical plants.
Tapirs can function as seed dispersers, as shown by the many seeds of several species that survived passage through the gut of lowland tapirs.
