It was caught on tape-ir.
After over a century of being considered regionally extinct, the South American tapir was spotted alive and well in Brazil in footage blowing up online.
In January, concealed cameras captured not one, but three of the trunk-toting rhinoceros relatives roaming the country’s Atlantic forest, DiarioAS reported.
“This challenge reflects the importance of protected areas and conservation efforts in the recovery of emblematic species” declared a spokesperson for Rio de Janeiro’s State Environmental Institute (INEA), which set up the camera traps.
Before then, the last time one of these herbivores — which are the largest terrestrial animal in South America — had last been spotted in Rio de Janeiro state was in Serra dos Órgãos National Park in 1914, IFL Science reported.
