CMZoo Staff Members Return to Ecuador to Continue Mountain Tapir Conservation Efforts – CMZoo https://www.cmzoo.org/news/archive/cmzoo-staff-members-return-to-ecuador-to-continue-mountain-tapir-conservation-efforts/
In early December 2019, four staff members from Cheyenne Mountain Zoo will travel to the Andes Mountains of Ecuador for an important conservation expedition to help save critically endangered mountain tapirs. Their prehensile noses with long snouts, odd-and-even-toed hooved feet and furry, bear-shaped bodies make this unique species look like something out of a children’s . . .
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