World's Large Herbivores Dwindling, Poaching a Major Threat (6 of 6) (IMAGE)

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World's Large Herbivores Dwindling, Poaching a Major Threat (6 of 6)

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The threatened lowland tapir. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the May 1, 2015, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by W.J. Ripple at Oregon State University in Corvallis, OR, and colleagues was titled, 'Collapse of the world's largest herbivores.'

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[Credit: Thomas Newsome]

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