Exempel på tapir

• 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.

• To date, studies of tapir seed dispersal have produced only partial temporal descriptions of tapir generated seed rain.

• Additionally, the spatio-temporal pattern of the seed-rain and seed-shadows generated by tapirs was recorded.

• Tapir generated seed-rain occurred throughout the year, with seeds defecated in all months.

• The forest and wetland ecosystems contain more than 800 species of trees, 500 species of birds, and large populations of mammals, including monkeys, jaguars, and tapirs.

• This implies that tapir influenced seed germination and plant recruitment patterns are unpredictable over months and amongst years, an important consideration when trying to understand the mechanisms structuring tropical forests.

• Fragoso (1997) also found a clumped distribution of palms that were dispersed primarily by tapirs and secondarily by agoutis.

• It has been on the tapir for many years.