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Recent news articles on tapir:
Statue of Iconic Goddess Needs New Home Dec 9, 2003
Marํa Lionza is depicted nude and muscular, astride a tapir and lifting
a pelvis bone -- symbol of fertility -- to the heavens. ... (IPSnews.net, Uruguay)
Why Belize s new dam is more than just a natural disaster Nov 29, 2003
...a decade. This part of the river is so remote that I would expect
to see otters, crocodiles and at least a dozen tapir. The fact ... (Sunday Herald, UK)
Belize dam gets hearing in London Dec 3, 2003
The project, it argues, will put at risk habitat that jaguar, tapir
and endangered scarlet macaws depend on for their survival. ... (The Globe and Mail, Canada)
Privy Council hears case to stop Canadian dam project in Belize Dec 3, 2003
For them, the project represents a threat to a lush ecosystem that counts
jaguars, exotic scarlet macaws and the rare tapir among its populace. ... (CBC News, Canada)
Dam challenged at Privy Council Dec 2, 2003
...pipes. The Upper Macal is home to a number of rare and endangered species,
including the tapir, the national animal of Belize. Some ... (BBC News, UK)
Indonesian Forestry Department, Riau Government, WWF Indonesia ... Nov 14, 2003
The area also serves as a sanctuary for protected animals, such as the
Sumatran Tiger, Tapir, Owa, Honey Bear, and Sinyulong Crocodile. ... (Yahoo News (press release))
Online site-seeing Oct 24, 2003
It's a bit too chilly outside for Woodland Park Zoo's new Malayan tapir infant,
born at the zoo nearly a month ago, to be placed in an outdoor exhibit. ... (Seattle Times, WA)
Ecuador misses out on oil wealth Nov 4, 2003
A lot of animals drink from the swamp - and they die. Even a tapir. One
week ago, he drank the water and died. We get our water from a well. ... (Scripps Howard News Service)
Anderson defiant on zoo case Nov 12, 2003
...to stop the businessman shooting any of the Tipperary animals, including seven hippopotamuses,
two southern white rhinoceroses, deer, water buffalo and tapir. ... (The West Australian, Australia)
Russian zoo fights for survival Nov 9, 2003
Two female gibbons and a tapir - a creature related to the horse and the rhinoceros
- have recently found refuge at London Zoo, and a couple of snow leopard ... (BBC News, UK)
Some people we meet on the road never fully fade from memory Oct 24, 2003
Years later, I bought journalist Elizabeth Royte's The Tapir's Morning Bath about
staying on a research station in a Panamanian rain forest in honor of ... (Dallas Morning News (subscription), TX)
Adventure in the Pantanal Oct 24, 2003
B EFORE we left Caiman four days later, we had crept up on a tapir drinking from
the lake, watched families of capybaras - large, aquatic rodents like giant ... (New York Times, NY)
Russian people keeping zoo alive Nov 10, 2003
Two female gibbons and a tapir were recently re-homed at London zoo and
a couple of snow leopards are next in line to leave Kaliningrad. ... (CBBC, UK)
Russian people keeping zoo alive 10 Nov 2003
Two female gibbons and a tapir were recently re-homed at London zoo and
a couple of snow leopards are next in line to leave Kaliningrad. ... (CBBC, UK)
Russian zoo fights for survival Nov 9, 2003
Two female gibbons and a tapir - a creature related to the horse and the rhinoceros
- have recently found refuge at London Zoo, and a couple of snow leopard ... (BBC News, UK)
Ecuador misses out on oil wealth Nov 4, 2003
A lot of animals drink from the swamp - and they die. Even a tapir. One
week ago, he drank the water and died. We get our water from a well. ... (Scripps Howard News Service)
State of Denial: Amazon quagmire Nov 3, 2003
A lot of animals drink from the swamp -- and they die. Even a tapir. One
week ago, he drank the water and died. We get our water from a well. ... (Sacramento Bee, CA)
Online site-seeing Oct 24, 2003
It's a bit too chilly outside for Woodland Park Zoo's new Malayan tapir infant,
born at the zoo nearly a month ago, to be placed in an outdoor exhibit. ... (Seattle Times, WA)
Some people we meet on the road never fully fade from memory Oct 24, 2003
Years later, I bought journalist Elizabeth Royte's The Tapir's Morning Bath about
staying on a research station in a Panamanian rain forest in honor of ... (Dallas Morning News (subscription), TX)
Adventure in the Pantanal Oct 24, 2003
B EFORE we left Caiman four days later, we had crept up on a tapir drinking from
the lake, watched families of capybaras - large, aquatic rodents like giant ... (New York Times)
Italians Fight Flood of English Words 09 Oct 2003
And what about celebrity labeled" attapirato?" Nothing tragic -- they've been given
the golden tapir award for some kind of dubious behavior from the country's ... (Zoomata, Italy)
Endangered tapir gives birth to a male calf Oct 2, 2003
Woodland Park Zoo visitors watched as an endangered Malayan tapir
delivered a male calf Tuesday afternoon. The 29-pound, unnamed ... (Seattle Post Intelligencer, WA)
Bear relics help pinpoint age of Gray site Oct 6, 2003
Researchers believe it was a sinkhole that acted as a natural trap for ancestors
of the elephant, rhinoceros, tapir, weasel, dog, bear, alligator, snake and ... (Knoxville News Sentinel, TN)
Home raided in drug probe Oct 1, 2003
...will follow. SEATTLE An endangered Malayan tapir delivered a male
calf yesterday evening at the Woodland Park Zoo. The unnamed ... (Seattle Times, WA)
Zoo's vet has her hands full Sep 21, 2003
To examine Pee Wee, a 500-pound tapir, the keepers drop metal poles
into the concrete floor of the tapirs' nighthouse to form a pen. ... (Florida Today, FL)
ARREST FOLLOWS CARAVAN FIRE Sep 30, 2003
Anyone with information should call CrimeStoppers on 0800 555111. A FEMALE
Brazilian tapir has been born at Paignton Zoo Environmental Park. ... (Western Morning News, UK)
Awards only for squeaky clean JPJ staff Sep 22, 2003
...he told newsmen yesterday after presenting excellence awards to 61 JPJ personnel
from the east coast at the Fire and Rescue Department Academy at Wakaf Tapir. ... (Star, Malaysia)
Brushes with history Sep 11, 2003
He placed goggles over his glasses and sat before a fossil of a tapiroid, a precursor
to a tapir, a rhinoceroslike animal with a heavy body, short legs and a ... (Washington Times, DC)
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