What Can Tapir Poop Teach Us About Healthy Forests?
May 12, 2023 · Tapirs are herbivores that play a key role in maintaining the health of tropical forests by dispersing seeds in their feces (poop). Tapirs are mysterious, silent, and nocturnal characteristics that make them difficult to study.
The future of the Amazon may depend on tapir poop - Big Think
May 14, 2020 · Tapirs produce towering piles of feces full of large-tree seeds other animal can’t pass. Stashing tasty fecal morsels for later, dung beetles bury the seeds.
Tapirs may be key to reviving the Amazon. All they need to do is poop
May 12, 2020 · Lowland tapirs, the largest mammal in South America, may be an effective agent for dispersing seeds throughout the Amazon. Beneath the viridescent understory of the …
How Do You ReGrow a Rainforest? Send in the Tapirs. - NRDC
May 2, 2019 · At lengths of up to eight feet, tapirs are the largest terrestrial animals in the Amazon rainforest. They can swim like fish, climb mountains like goats, and pluck leaves and fruit off trees like...
Poop Is Cool! Animal “Bathrooms” Help Animals And Plants
Mar 20, 2024 · These special bathroom places are called latrines, and over time, they can accumulate big piles of poop. A good example of an animal that makes latrines is the lowland tapir (Figure 1).
Tapir poop sites serve as salad bars for other animals
Jul 26, 2024 · We may wrinkle our noses at the thought of eating at a public toilet. But in the forests of Brazil, tapir toilets are important buffet centers for various animals, new research has found.
How poop turns into forests - Woodwell Climate
Feb 27, 2024 · In a TED talk, Ludmila Rattis reveals how tapirs spread seeds that help regenerate the forest and promote climate resilience worldwide.
Ludmila Rattis: How poop turns into forests | TED Talk
Ecologist Ludmila Rattis reveals the surprisingly fruitful benefits of letting nature take care of its own business, sharing how the digestive habits of tapirs — pig-like creatures that roam Amazonia — spread seeds that help regenerate the forest and promote climate resilience worldwide.
Tapirs are herbivores that play a key role in maintaining the health of tropical forests by dispersing seeds in their feces (poop). Tapirs are mysterious, silent, and nocturnal characteristics that make them dicult to study.
Amazon Rainforest Regrowth Depends on Poop…? - The Hoard …
May 21, 2020 · A Brazilian ecologist, Lucas Paolucci’s studies along with his team reveal the importance of the poop of the wild animals to restore the Amazon rainforest. He mainly focused on finding the feces of Tapirus terrestris (trunk-nosed lowland tapirs).
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